Education in Persian Gulf

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Possibility of the Iraqi Ministry of Education providing teachers for the school in the Trucial States and the proposal for the establishment of an education committee for the Trucial States (1-4, 6-9, 15)
• Agreement for boys from the Trucial States to receive secondary education in Kuwait, if they meet the necessary educational standard (5)
• Estimates of the number of teachers which will be required in the Trucial States in the next five years and the costs (10)
• Suggestion that Qatar could also be provided with teachers from Iraq. It includes a transcript of a newspaper article about how Iraq is strengthening her cultural ties with other Arab countries (11)
• Salaries and allowances thought necessary for Iraqi teachers working in the Trucial States (12-13)
• Repairs to the roof of Sharjah School (14, 16)
• Possibility of obtaining teachers from Zanzibar for Arabic primary schools in the Trucial States (17, 19)
• Examples of incidents in which Arab teachers in Qatar and the Trucial States were spreading pan-Arabist propaganda and suggestions of how to counter this (18)
• Report of an incident in which a Jordanian school teacher in Dubai organised a pro-Egyptian demonstration. It also contains discussion of how to deal with the teacher and how to prevent further incidents such as this (20-21)
• Proposal for the training of teachers drawn for the Trucial States in Bahrain. It contains: a memorandum, which includes an estimated costing for the proposed scheme and a report of arrangements made with the Government of Bahrain for hosting the scheme (22-23)
• Building of an elementary-intermediate school in Abu Dhabi. It contains a list of furniture and equipment required for the school and lists of quotations for the provision of this equipment (24-26)