KUWAIT CITY, Dec 2: Grade 12 Science and Art students will take their examinations for the second and fourth quarters in other schools to limit, if not eliminate, cheating, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily quoting sources from the Ministry of Education (MoE).

Sources affirmed this move will greatly contribute in limiting all forms of cheating, including the use of iPhone, because the students will take the examinations, along with those from other schools, instead of their classmates or schoolmates. Sources said the iPhone has become an ‘effective’ tool for cheating amongst students, so the ministry will instruct the proctors to confiscate iPhones before the students enter the examination centers.

Meanwhile, in Paris, head of the Kuwait Cultural Bureau Abdulrahman Al-Rawdan said that Ministry of Higher Education gives utmost attention to Kuwaiti students abroad.

This remark came during Al-Rawdan’s recent five-day visit, along with a delegation from the cultural bureau, to Malta to meet with Kuwaiti students and check up on their academic and living conditions over there.
The Kuwaiti delegation also met with senior officials from Malta University and deans of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, architectural engineering, business.

During these meetings, the officials discussed hardships that Kuwaiti students face at the university.
Many of these difficulties were solved during the meetings. However, more individual cases are yet to be resolved separately.

Al-Rawdan also discussed deepening cultural and academic cooperation with Malta University.
He noted that there were talks of sending local students from Malta to Kuwait University to study the Arabic language.

The Cultural Bureau in Paris supervises 450 Kuwaiti students studying abroad. There are 180 students in Paris, 170 in Malta, 80 in Germany, 20 in Spain, 10 in Switzerland, four in Belgium and small numbers in Italy, Holland, Poland, Ukraine and Hungry.