Pressure not to allow mixed colleges in Kuwait

Manama: A Kuwaiti conservative MP is putting pressure on the government to ensure that the Open University would not tolerate mixed education.

"I want to know about the measures and steps taken to segregate between boys and girls in the classrooms and the various facilities at the Open University," MP Jama'an Al Harbash said in a question he submitted to Dr Moodhi Al Humood, the education minister.

"We want to make sure that the new university fully complies with the 1996 law promulgated by the parliament and which governs higher education and private schools on separation between sexes," the MP said.

Conservative MPs have been exerting pressure on the education officials not to allow colleges and private schools to have mixed classes, arguing that they would be against local traditions and values.