University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 26, 1991
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Kuwait schools clean up undergo faculty changes
Education begins after international effort
The Associated Press
KUWAT CITY — Like school principals around the world, Abdul Karim al-Utasd is frazzled with preparations for the start of the school year.
But unlike his peers, he had to start by clearing more than 20 truckloads of war debris from his school, dismantling a motor pool in his gymnasium, reinstalling light fixtures and buying new desks and chairs.
"You can't believe what the Iraqis did to us," al-Ustad said. "They even took our student records and used them as fuel for cooking."
Kuwait's public schools, which opened Saturday, were the barracks for thousands of Iraqi troops during seven-month occupation of Kuwait
Most schools were looted. Many were covered with "Victory to Saddam" graffiti and piled with trash, exploded green grenades and mortar shells.
More than 120 schools were too badly damaged to reopen. The 503 that will receive students were filled last week. Some schools still have volunteers getting classrooms ready.
It has been an international effort, said Sheikha Musalem, the Education Minister of Jordan.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is supervising major repairs to 150 schools. The British Council, an educational arm of the embassy, has brought in chemistry and物理 lab laboratories, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is helping develop special counseling programs.
Egyptian publishing houses have shipped about 10 million new Arabic language textbooks to Kuwait, and fleets of Education Ministry trucks
are working double shifts to get them distributed to schools.
"We began from zero," Sheikha Musalem said. "Inshallah (God willing), we will have everything in place on time."
Students will have two years of classwork compressed into one to make up for the school year lost to the war. Not everyone is happy with this.
Ahmed Bishara, a professor of chemical engineering at Kuwait University, said, "You can't abridge education without sacrificing the content and putting too much stress on students and parents."
"We should consider the occupation a year lost in our lives—all of our lives"
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Enrollment in kindergarten through high school classes is expected to total about 254,000 students this year. Students from about 480,000 before the war.
Missing will be thousands of foreign nationals who left Kuwait during the occupation, she said, as well hundreds of Palestinians, whose leadership supported Iraq during the war. They have been barred from Kuwait by US officials and arrived foreign workers have not been allowed to bring their families.
Teachers are expected to number about 10,000 in sitting 6,000 from EWSwashington.
One Egyptian teacher, Moshen Abuld Khader of Cairo, surveyed the barron room that is to be his automotive engineering classroom.
He joked that his first "field trip" he to the desert to scavenge Injury that he had.
"They may be the only engines we can get our hands on quickly," he said.
U.S. factory workers inferior in output, productivity in 1990
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Manufacturing workers in Japan, western Germany and Italy improved their productivity by 25 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Productivity increased by 3.7 percent in Japan, by 3.4 percent in Germany and by 3.2 percent in Italy, compared with 2.5 percent in the United States, the Labor Department agency said. It would only be a relief only to the western part of the country, as it existed before unification.
Italians also worked fewer hours, although the number of jobs in the
country increased. In Japan and Germany, the number of jobs and of hours both rose.
Actual output also increased more in the three other countries: 5.1 percent in Germany, 4.5 percent in Japan and 1.1 percent in Italy. U.S. output rose by only. 4 of 1 percent. The rise in U.S. productivity was due to the fact that the total number of manufacturing jobs decreased, so Americans worked fewer hours to produce more goods, the report said.
"Productivity reflects the joint effects of many influences, including new technology, capital investment, capacity utilization, energy use and managerial skills, as well as the skills and efforts of the work force," the report said.
The cost of labor to business increased during the year in all 11 countries surveyed. The smallest increase, 3.2 percent, was in the United States and in the Netherlands. The largest increase was in Japan, but also the amounts employers pay for social security and other plans that benefit workers.
When the bureau measured labor cost to employers in terms of goods produced (the rise in cost for each unit of production) the increase in the United States was the smallest: 7.01 percent. The largest increase was in Britain: 8.9 percent.
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