The possibility of banning men and women from taking lectures in class together in Kuwaiti universities has increased.
According to the Gulf News report, the latest indication of the ban came from Kuwaiti Prime Minister Mohammad Haif, who quoted the Education Minister as saying that he had agreed to end registration for attending mixed lectures.
In 2015, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of coeducation, explaining that the law banning miscegenation in educational institutions could be enforced by providing only women and other seats for men within lecture halls.
Acting Director of Kuwait University, Fayaz Al-Zafiri, said that the institution is applying the law prohibiting mixing, we are working, so there is no mixing in education.
He added that the university is committed to review the academic sections and cancel the mixed sections between them which are not really required.
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