Saudi Gazette

JEDDAH – Learning disabilities can affect all aspects of life in those who suffer from them. School, work, leisure, and personal relationships are all on the casualties’ list. Even those around people that suffer from learning disabilities find themselves forced to try and adapt with the challenges and changes that come with the condition.

SAN FRANCISCO – One more of the world’s biggest technology companies is clamoring to enter the growing market for pint-sized computers targeted mainly for pint-sized customers.

HAIL - US Ambassador Ford M. Fraker said the validity of US student visas for Saudis would be increased from two to five years and that procedures to obtain such visas would be restructured.

RIYADH - Indian students in Saudi Arabia who are finishing high school this year have a chance to qualify for a new scholarship program introduced by the Indian government.

RIYADH - Arab education ministers began a three-day meeting here Saturday with a keynote speaker calling for putting mechanisms in place to ensure that no talent is overlooked in schools as Arab countries attempt to develop knowledge societies.

DHAHRAN - Saudi students undertaking scientific research in local universities are often exploited by their professors and advisers in the preparation of their dissertation and thesis, according to a top official of a leading university.

RIYADH - Twelve Australian universities are being showcased to the Saudi public in a three-city tour. Around 1,200 Saudis have visited the exhibition, which was held in Al-Khobar and Riyadh.

JEDDAH - Unauthorized universities continue to blatantly operate through offices in the Kingdom despite periodic warnings by the Ministry of Higher Education through advertisements in Arabic newspapers

JEDDAH - Starting next year Dar Al-Hekma College will provide a new course on Architectural Engineering, for women. The course will start in 2009 as part of a partnership between DAHC and Colorado University, Denver.

Riyadh - Encouraging inquisitiveness of a school-going child is the key to successful education, said Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore. "When a child asks why while enquiring about something, don't counteract with another ‘why' as that hinders human progress," said Lee, speaking in an interactive session conducted as part of the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF2008), which concluded here Tuesday.

RIYADH - British magazine The Economist has placed Saudi Arabia ahead of France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Malaysia and many other countries in the field of higher education and scientific research, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Sunday.

RIYADH - Commercials luring children to shop online goods with their parents' credit cards, explicit instructions on how to commit suicide, make a bomb, cook up heroin and child pornography - these are just a few of the risks the Internet poses to children and adolescents.

RIYADH - Government universities all over the Kingdom are set to hire 2000 teaching assistants. Dr. Ali Suliman Al-Attiyya, supervisor general of the Financial and Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Higher Education, said the job opening is part of the ministry's policy for the fiscal year to overcome the shortage in public universities.

The Ministry of Education has warned that teachers who do not report to work on opening day will get a two-day salary cut.

DAMMAM - Universities will gain autonomy under a plan to be submitted soon by the Ministry of the Higher Education to King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, for the development of higher education in Saudi Arabia.