More than half a million students started the academic year on August 23 at some 1077 public school around Oman, with 5% more students enrolling than the previous year.
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Economic update | Oman targets sustainable education
29 Sep 2015
Interviews & Viewpoints | Azzam Al Dakhil, Minister of Education: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
What initiatives are helping ensure that high school graduates have the skills to enter local universities and thus minimise the need for a preparatory year?
Articles & Analysis | Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Scholarship Programme funds thousands of students to complete their studies abroad from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
A central pillar of Saudi Arabia’s drive to become a knowledge-based economy over the last 10 years has been the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP). In the budget for 2015, the Ministry of Finance announced that SR22.5bn ($6bn) had been allocated for the year to fund 207,000 Saudi citizens living abroad, including the scholars and...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Badran Al Omar, Rector, King Saud University: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
How would you characterise the relationship between the public and private universities, and to what extent can they complement each other?
Articles & Analysis | Saudi government's education allocation focuses on new universities and schools from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
Education accounted for the highest expenditure of any single sector in Saudi Arabia’s budget for 2015, equivalent to 25% of total anticipated spending. The annual statement does not include defence and security spending, but Jadwa Investment says that examination of Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency figures for 2014 suggests that it accounts for...
Articles & Analysis | Saudi Arabia adopts new technology to enable student learning from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
Driving forward with reforms to modernise teaching, measure standards and improve spatial diversity by educating people in all corners of the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia is using technology to provide solutions and alternative ways of teaching and learning.