KUWAIT CITY: Former minister of information Dr Saad bin Teflah Al-Ajmi says some good may come of the recent tragic shootouts between security men and Islamic militants in the country "if the crises are managed properly in the direction of better representation, a multi party system, more freedom and at the same time combating extremism." Bin Teflah, also a former director of Kuwait's Information Office in London who now teaches at Kuwait University, told the Arab Times the educational system needs to be overhauled to meet the demands of the job market. "It doesn't have to take someone like me to prove that we need to review and develop the educational curriculum. The fact speaks for itself in the sense that the outcome of the education now is people who are semi-literate and incompatible with the job market." He said his former ministry and the Ministry of Education has always been the targets of so-called Islamists because they want to control the society. "They think they have to purify the society. In an effort to do so - to control the society, to purify the society, to bring it back to their 'ideal Islamic society' they have to control the channels of education and information." The information ministry portfolio has over the years been the 'hottest' seat in the Cabinet with many occupants leaving office before their time was due. The latest casualty was Kuwait's former ambassador to the United Nations Mohammed Abulhassan who resigned in December on the eve of his grilling in the National Assembly by 3 Islamist MPs.