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'File 4/13 II Kuwait Education' [383r] (765/844)
The record is made up of 1 file (420 folios). It was created in 6 Oct 1939-17 Nov 1943. It was written in English, Arabic and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CONFIDENTIAL
Kuwait Receipt /\
No /Si'S
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Dear Sir,
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18TH SBPTT5MBER, 1943,
1 # I have now completed arrangements for 11 Egyptian School
teachers to be seconded to the Koweit Government, half their
salaries being paid by>he Egyptian Government. In an
interview with iiinister of Education on nonday 14th
September, he^tiforned me that not only would he have no objection
to the El>" r ^t Government paying the full fee®, should it wish to,
"bujn-frttat he would welcome such action*
There still remains one man tobe engaged. He is Kamel
Saleh /bdou. He has just taken the Certificate of the Institute
of Education in Physical Training. . He submitted his name only
yesterday so I have not had time to arrange for his secondment.
I have interviewed him and consider him suitable. The Ministry
is ready to send a Physical Training Instructorbut has been waiting
for me to select one. The terms we offer are stated in a
letter of Oth September to the other teachers, a copy of which
is on the Koweit file. Would you please ask Ur. Highwood to
arrange for this man to be engaged. He should be paid fE.25
for hi a tv salary for tho month of
October. I will ask the Political. Agent at Koweit to forward
£E.37 to you as early as possible.
2. A party of 11 Koweit school boys will be arriving soon
to attend boarding schools in Cairo and I have asked the Political
Agent to telegraph to the Council the date and time of their
arrival so that the Ministry of Education may be informed.
I suggest that Mr. Highwood should meet theta at the station together
with the officials from the Ministry.
One of the boys, Jabar Abdullah Jabar is to live at the
Orman School and the other 10 either at the Saidia or the Helouan
boarding schools. I have written to the Minister asking that
all ten may be sent to Helouan as I consider it a more suitable
plane. Their names are
Ali /.aka*ia.
Khalid al Jassar
Khalid al Thuney/an
Yusif si Shahid
Abdul Aziz al Sarawi
Mohammed al Fahid
Abdul Razzag el Adwani
Jasim al Mashari al Hassan
Dawood al Musaad
Ahmed al Arif an
Accompanying the boys are four others whose names I do not
know who have applied to be admitted to the Orman Primary Boarding
school. I have written to the Minister about this but there has
not been time for a reply.
We shall appreciate it if Mr. Kighwood or some other member
of the Council can keep in touch with the boys and report to us from
time
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This file contains correspondence related to the development of education in Kuwait, specifically the activities of a British educational official named F J Wakelin, who was on secondment from the British Council and acting as adviser to the Governments of Bahrain and Kuwait at this time.
A number of reports regarding Kuwait's educational system written by Wakelin are contained in the file. Topics discussed include the hiring of teachers from Egypt, educational reform and the role of the British Council including a visit made to Kuwait by a Council official named C A F Dundas.
In addition to correspondence between Wakelin and other British officials (notably the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait), the file also contains a large amount of correspondence between him and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and Kuwait's Department of Education (much of which is in Arabic accompanied by English translations). A limited amount of correspondence between British officials in Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also present (this is largely in French and occasionally in Arabic).
On folios 117-137, the file contains a price list of Arabic books and school materials prescribed for use in government elementary and secondary schools 1939-40 that was prepared by the Department of Education, Government of Palestine in Jerusalem.
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- 1 file (420 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 422; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between folios 2-421; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- English, Arabic and French in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/196
- Title
- 'File 4/13 II Kuwait Education'
- Pages
- 193r:193v, 207r:219v, 256r, 259r:262v, 269r:272v, 283r:286v, 316r:316v, 323r:323v, 347r:347v, 361r:363v, 382r:390v, 402r:408v, 412r:413v
- Author
- Wakelin, Frederick James
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