'Higher Education' and 'Health': Preparing scholarship plan according to labor market needs - Sarmad

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Dr. Badr Al-Basiri, held talks today, Thursday, with the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Sheikh Dr. Salman Khalifa Al-Sabah, regarding the health sector’s needs in the country for medical and allied health specialties, in order to help formulate a scholarship plan aligned with the actual and future demands of the labor market.

The Ministry of Higher Education stated in a press release that the two parties held a coordination meeting to identify priority specialties and align scholarship opportunities with the Ministry of Health’s needs for qualified national cadres, thereby enhancing the efficiency of formulating external scholarship policies and helping to fill the health sector’s requirements for needed specialties.

It clarified that the meeting comes within the framework of strengthening coordination and integration between the two ministries, and linking higher education outputs with labor market needs, thereby supporting the development of specialized national competencies that contribute to improving the health system and enhancing the quality of its services.

Attending the meeting on behalf of the Ministry of Higher Education were Assistant Undersecretary for Missions, Equivalencies and Cultural Relations Dr. Faisal Al-Adwani, and Scholarship Plans and Admissions Monitor Masha’al Saleh. On behalf of the Ministry of Health, the meeting was attended by Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Affairs and Secretary General of the Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialties Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, and Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs and Assistant Undersecretary for Civil Services Dr. Fatima Al-Najjar.