Abstract
The State of Kuwait Ministry of Education (MoE) has clearly defined land use standards for the location of public schools, and an inventory of reserved lands for future facilities. Unless, there is a geographical efficient tool to manage and plan the education system in a rapidly developing country such as Kuwait there will be huge deficit in such services. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was used to fill in this gap and effectively evaluate and analyze their facilities and unoccupied lands to ensure they continue to meet the population and future needs of Kuwaiti students. This paper utilized the GIS to inventory, map, and analyze MoE facilities and unoccupied land reservations with a goal of improved planning and decision making. Unfortunately, the initial spatial analysis of the data showed huge percent of districts that have no schools failing to meet the minimum standard of the MoE including kindergartens, primary schools, intermediate schools for girls, intermediate schools for boys, secondary schools for girls and secondary schools for boys at 72%, 71%, 48%, 43%, 54%, and 55% respectively. Such critical results will enable the decision makers to prioritize the immediate action of relocation the schools or widen the services and accessibility. Moreover, the analysis of the data showed a critical and immediate need to reserve land for five districts where they are heavily populated and lacked reserved land. However, based on long term land use plans, there is an urgent need to relocate some land and reserve others to meet the future urbanization plans and population growth.
Highlights
Overpopulation growth in developing countries always put excessive pressure on government for facility management
The initial spatial analysis of the data showed huge percent of districts that have no schools failing to meet the minimum standard of the Ministry of Education (MoE) including kindergartens, primary schools, intermediate schools for girls, intermediate schools for boys, secondary schools for girls and secondary schools for boys at 72%, 71%, 48%, 43%, 54%, and 55% respectively
MoE property holdings include school facilities and administration facilities, as well as unoccupied land parcels that have been reserved throughout the Kuwait urban area for future facilities to meet the future needs of over population growth
Summary
Overpopulation growth in developing countries always put excessive pressure on government for facility management. Key element is the education and allocation of the school within the urbanized areas to meet the community needs. Unless there is a tool to help decision makers for relocating of schools according to the standardized criterion, it will be mysteries planning. The Kuwait school system includes a diverse range of students and inventory of schools. The Kuwait Ministry of Education (MoE) is the body responsible for administering public schools including, special needs, religious schools, and adult literacy education [1]. MoE oversees and regulates the private schools operating within Kuwait. MoE property holdings include school facilities and administration facilities, as well as unoccupied land parcels that have been reserved throughout the Kuwait urban area for future facilities to meet the future needs of over population growth
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