Education in Kuwait: Egyptian school teachers and doctors for Sharjah

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Offer by Egypt to send schoolteachers, engineers and doctors to Sharjah. Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi would like advice but was keen to accept the offer if Britain cannot fund the equivalent. Foreign Office are suspicious, as Egyptian teachers in Kuwait are believed to be introducing anti-West propaganda into the classroom and Egypt may have ulterior motives. The idea of employing Palestinian refugees as teachers is mentioned (1-8)
• Supply of free school meals to children in Kuwait (9)