His Excellency the Minister of Oil, Minister of Higher Education and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education Dr. Muhammad Abdul Latif Al-Faris signed this Sunday morning, a cooperation protocol concerning the Academic Guidance Center project with His Excellency the Minister of Information and Culture, Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Public Authority for Youth Abdulrahman Badah Al-Mutairi, at the Ministry of Higher Education building, in the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Dr. Sabeeh Abdulaziz Al-Mukhaizeem, the Director General of the National Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education, Dr. Hamad Abdel Wahab Al-Adwani, and the Director General of the Youth Public Authority, Dr. Mishaal Al-Shaheen Al-Rabee.

In this context, His Excellency Dr. Muhammad Al-Faris stated in a press release: his full support for the initiatives and agreements between the various state institutions to achieve the objectives of the development plan and Kuwait’s Vision 2035. The signing of the protocol today comes to strengthen the direct cooperation between the concerned authorities, to implement plans, programs, and goals. To promote and develop institutional work, and to achieve integration in the care of young people in the educational and academic sector.

Al-Fares explained that the initiative reflects the efforts undertaken by the Public Authority for Youth which are directly compatible with the objectives of the Ministry of Higher Education. Guiding students to enroll in distinguished universities by providing the necessary motivation for joining these universities, and working to create opportunities to enable promising Kuwaiti youth to obtain the scholarships of excellence offered by the Ministry of Higher Education, and specified by the national apparatus in accordance with international standards to ensure the effectiveness of scientific outputs, to create A highly skilled and distinguished national workforce in all fields to contribute to achieving sustainable economic and social development, and enhancing the competitiveness of the State of Kuwait globally.

The Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi said that all state agencies are working to support young adults and prepare all means necessary for them in all fields, so they could represent the future of the country, adding that cooperation between the three parties will reflect positively on the youth and illuminate the path before them.

 He stressed the eagerness to harness all potentials to achieve the aspirations of young people, indicating that the launch of the Public Authority for Youth and the Academic Guidance Center project in youth centers, aims to guide school students toward enrolling in distinguished universities (Merit Universities) and help them fulfill the admission requirements in these universities in accordance with and regulations of the Ministry of Higher Education.

For his part, Director-General of the Public Authority for Youth, Dr. Mishaal Al-Rabee, stressed that the agreement embodies the cooperation between the three parties to support the development of youth, providing the highest level of care for their affairs in the academic sector, and providing them with distinguished educational opportunities.

Dr. Al-Rabee explained: The three bodies are concerned with the youth and their academic education. The Ministry of Higher Education is responsible for everything related to scholarships for Kuwaiti students, and sets the general framework, policies and plans necessary to develop higher education outputs and follow up on the affairs of scholarship students, while the National Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education defines higher education institutions in countries. He pointed out that the authority, through this center, will provide the rehabilitation, training, guidance, voluntary and other services necessary to accept young people in the distinguished missions program offered by the Ministry of Higher Education to school students, noting that the authority has allocated the Fayhaa Youth Center, which is one of its youth centers to implement the first phase of the work Center.

Further, the Director General of the National Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education, Dr. Hamad Al-Adwani, explained that the participation of the National Authority in the cooperation agreement came from his vision of making the culture of high-quality higher education a reality ingrained among the youth, as various academic studies confirmed that raising the quality of education has an impact. Direct and important to the economic and living development of the country, and the cooperation agreement on the Academic Guidance Center project comes with bodies close to the youth category to render aspects of cooperation to support them and provide them with distinguished educational opportunities, hoping that the protocol will bear fruit soon.