KUWAIT CITY, July 1: Minister of Education and Higher Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi has announced that the new salary scale of teachers will be implemented by the beginning of 2012, reports Al-Anba daily.
“The government abides by all decisions issued by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the National Assembly whether it is the revised salary scale that would cost the state KD 88 million and comes into effect from April 1, 2011 or the annual bonus system that will depend on the performance of employees and costs the state KD 143 million. The latter will be implemented by the beginning of 2012.”
Female and male teachers can get a maximum of annual bonus worth KD 8,000 depending on their performance, their attendance rate, number of classes they take and their educational achievements, noted the minister.

Al-Mulaifi denied reports which said GCC nationals were not included in the new salary scale, saying all GCC nationals will be granted rights approved by the CSC.
Kuwaiti teachers are meanwhile, planning to go on strike at the beginning of the new academic year to protest a decision by the National Assembly and the government not to give nod to the teachers’ salary increment draft bill, reports Al-Shahed daily.
Through electronic communications and websites of the Kuwait Teachers Society, the teachers have demanded to suspend cooperation with the Ministry of Education because of the stand adopted by the Minister of Education and Higher Education who has opposed the bill.
The teachers have now appealed for HH the Amir to intervene and approve the bill through a decree citing the importance of the role being played by Kuwait teachers in developing the nation.