Teaching Jobs Regulation

Purpose and scope

• Regulates teaching jobs in general education: ranks, appointment, probation, promotion, assignments, removal from teaching and financial benefits, replacing the former teaching jobs regulation (Article 38).
• The Civil Service Law and its regulations apply where it has no specific provision (Article 37).

Key rules, rights and obligations

• There are four ranks: expert teacher, advanced teacher, practitioner teacher, and teacher or assistant teacher (Article 3).
• Initial appointment is as practitioner teacher or assistant teacher; a practitioner teacher must meet professional standards, hold a full-time university degree in the subject, and not have been dismissed on disciplinary grounds or removed from teaching (Article 5).
• Probation lasts two years; if suitability is not shown, the minister ends the service (Article 8).
• A professional licence is required to practise teaching (Article 34).
• Teachers may not be assigned non-teaching work except certain administrative jobs needing teaching experience, under agreed rules (Article 18).
• School leaders and deputies are chosen from practitioner teacher rank and above (Article 19); an assignment may be ended early in the interest of work (Article 23).

Violations, penalties and common problems

• A teacher is removed from teaching for offending Islam, adopting deviant ideas that affect students, a directive from State Security, possessing, using or dealing in drugs, or physical abuse or harassment (Article 14).
• A person removed from teaching is not returned to a teaching job, unless the removal was for illness (Article 17).
• The annual increment is withheld in cases linked to performance appraisal (Article 26).

Procedures and key deadlines

• If a resignation or early retirement date falls during the school year, the minister may defer approval until the start of the summer holiday (Article 31).
• A teacher reaching retirement age during the school year may have service extended to the start of the summer holiday (Article 31).
• Moving to the next level within a rank depends on professional development and performance appraisal (Article 25).

An advisory summary prepared by Al-Bayan Al-Wadih Law Firm. It is not an official text and does not replace the law, its implementing regulations, or advice from a specialised lawyer. The official published text and its amendments prevail.