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P.K. Abdul Ghafour
JEDDAH: Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari yesterday highlighted Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s support to institutions of higher learning in the Kingdom and said budget...

P.K. Abdul Ghafour
JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah will lay the foundation stone of the new campus of Kingdom’s first women university shortly, Princess Al-Jowhara bint Fahd, president of

THERE have been several cases reported recently of young girls, some as young as seven or eight, being married off by their parents to men in their 50s, 60s or even older. In some instances, parents

Walaa A. Hawari I Arab News
RIYADH: A Saudi university has adopted new counterfeit-proof technology to protect its certificates from being tampered with. Riyadh University for Girls has begun using the new technology, which...

Fatima Sidiya I
JEDDAH: A long list of people who had purchased or attempted to purchase fake university diplomas in the United States has spurred the Saudi education authorities to launch an investigation into the

Shafquat Ali I [email protected]
MANY of us send our children to the US to study, with dreams that they come back with topnotch degrees. And the good news is: Most of them do. The bad news, however, is that that’s not...

Iman Kurdi I Arab News
IN France this week, a schoolteacher was fined 500 euros for slapping one of his students. The case dates back to last January when the teacher, Jose Laboureur, asked a student to tidy his desk....

Mohammed Rasooldeen I Arab News
RIYADH: The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) is organizing more than 100 summer camps throughout the world to inculcate social, cultural and family values in the minds of young men and women.

RIYADH: The Kingdom’s universities will enroll more than 236,000 students who passed out of the secondary schools this year, according to Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari.

Stephen Brundage | Arab News
DHAHRAN: With the energy of a pep rally and the emotion of a family farewell, students from Saudi Aramco’s Summer Gifted Program celebrated their achievements and demonstrated their newfound...

JEDDAH: Minister of Higher Education Khaled Al-Anqari has denied rumors that his ministry would cancel scholarships to India following reports of a Saudi who was studying at a New Delhi university...

Roger Harrison | Arab News
The first group of students to take the Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) received their provisional results at the British Council in Jeddah yesterday.

Walaa Hawari | Arab News
RIYADH: Riyadh University has announced a six-week summer training program for 2,365 women graduates to teach them the skills and experience necessary in the job market. Princess Al-Johara bint...

Md. Rasooldeen, Arab News
RIYADH: About 4,200 new, air-conditioned 40-seat buses chauffeured by Saudis will be deployed as part of a project by the Ministry of Education to provide transport to and from school for 367,000 school

NEW HAVEN, Conn.: More than 150 Muslim and Christian leaders, including some of the world’s most eminent scholars and clerics, will gather at Yale University July 28-31 to promote understanding between...