Who'd want to be a Teacher!

In today's Kuwait Times:

Teachers interview

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education have started interviewing a number of teachers in Syria, Egypt and Jordan to teach in Kuwait. The ministry specified that the salary of the new teachers would be KD 350 for male teachers including (sic) a housing allowance and KD 290 for female teachers. The Civil Service Commission rejected a call from the ministry to increase the salaries of expatriate teachers, reported Al Qabas.

I hope that it's a spelling mistake and a housing allowance is in addition to the pitiful salary. Even if the housing allowance is excluded, a fresh Kuwaiti graduates recieve more! And why the discrepancy by sex? A further indication, if it ain't obvious, of the lack of quality in education here. If you're going to pay for monkeys, you're going to get monkeys... I'm sure there's a good arabic proverb for this.

Mind you, it probably is good money for those that sign-up and come, and the job won't be very demanding.