The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) (Arabic: الهيئة العامة للتعليم التطبيقي والتدريب) is an academic institute in Kuwait.

[1] It is considered one of the largest institutes offering associate degrees in the Middle East in terms of the number of enrolled students.

In the 1950s, the State began to establish training centres and organised programmes to prepare the manpower needed for the oil industry.

The goal of PAAET is to develop the national technical manpower and to meet human resource needs of the country through its two sectors: Education and Training.

The Authority’s Training Coordination Department offers programs predicated on the requested needs of the various Kuwaiti ministries, state institutions and the private sector.