Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Education Ministry denied in a statement on Thursday (August 15, 2019) what is being circulated on social media that it opened the door for hiring foreign teachers, saying that the information are baseless and false and that hiring teachers was restricted to Bahraini nationals only. It added that no ad was published for external employment.

The statement confirmed that the ministry is finishing the final stages of employing bahraini teachers to fill the gaps in various announced specialities, in preparation for starting the new scholastic year 2019/2020.