Over 9,000 university graduates have been turned down for teaching posts after they failed to pass the Ministry of Education's interview stage which finished last month. Sources said that the Ministry of Education had passed on to the Ministry of Civil Service data for 13,000 successful candidate teachers out of a total of 22,271 who were interviewed. Abdul Aziz Al-Khunain, the spokesman for the Ministry of Civil Service, said meanwhile that 500 graduates who passed the interview have failed to register at his ministry's website to confirm their wish to proceed in their job applications, while another 120 have failed to provide all the data requested of them. “This is despite repeated requests from the ministry in the form of text messages sent to the numbers they provided to the Ministry of Education,” Al-Khunain said. “Those who don't register or complete the information required by the end of the working day on Wednesday will be excluded from the selection process.”
