Kuwait Education
Kuwait has a compulsory and free school for eight years for all children aged 6-14. There are a number of private schools. Foreign children must have lived in Kuwait for 10 years in order to attend public school. In the first four years of primary school, it is taught only in Arabic. In the middle stage, Arabic and English are emphasized equally. Kuwait has a teacher’s college, a technical college and one university with 18,000 students (1999). Many students from…