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The Automotive Academy: A Year of Training at No Cost, and English Before the Interview

Applications go through the official site, and it demands full availability plus an online language test then a technical one.

A car clutch mechanism

Car technology today is closer to electronics than to mechanics alone. The Kuwait Automotive Academy is aimed at young Kuwaitis who want to work in the sector professionally, with a programme of roughly a year that combines technical and practical skills with management ones.

The conditions

  • Being a Kuwaiti national.
  • Full availability for the programme. This is the heaviest clause: it is not an evening course you fit around a job.
  • Good English — reading, writing and conversation.
  • Passing the interview and the online language test.
  • Passing a technical test set as part of the admission route.

The file

  • A personal photograph.
  • The employment application form, filled in.
  • Certificate of nationality.
  • Passport.
  • Birth certificate.
  • Academic certificates.
  • Experience certificates, if any.

How to apply

Through the academy’s official website, not in person. And the fee: none.

What the conditions mean in practice

Three requirements arriving together — total availability, conversational English, and two tests before admission — mean the door is open but the sieve is fine. Anyone thinking of applying should deal with the language first: it is the only condition that can be improved before applying, without waiting for anything.

Photo: a car clutch. By dave_7, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Source: Kuwait’s e-government portal, the Kuwait Automotive Academy service page.

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