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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has started to implement new measures to curb extremism and extremist ideologies in schools, according to press reports yesterday.
The new measures are being executed jointly by the ministries of education and interior.
The Saudi education system came under fire after the September 11, 2001 attacks with reports in the West claiming that the Saudi curriculum promotes hatred and terrorism.
Gulf News has learned that the new measures stipulate that Saudis applying to the ministry of education for teachers jobs have to get the approval of the ministry of interior as precondition for processing their applications. This is a preventive measure to ensure that the applicant is not on the list of the wanted ones and that his record is clear of any ideological or extremism tendency, the statement pointed out.
The measures, stipulated that any teacher found holding extremist tendencies is to be transferred to any non-educational post, sent to early retirement or dismissed from the job.
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