Plan to attract foreign universities in the pipeline

The Ministry of Education is currently working on a plan to attract prestigious foreign universities to open their branches in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is in accordance with the directives aimed at taking advantage of the courses of the premier international universities by young Saudi men and women, reports the Saudi Gazette.

This comes within the framework of the government’s keenness to provide advanced and world-class education. There are provisions in the new University Law to allow the University Affairs Council to recommend approval of the establishment or abolition or merger of universities and their branches, private colleges and branches of foreign universities, and submit the recommendations to the Council of Ministers for approval.

The most important tasks of the University Affairs Council include approval of policies and strategies for university education; approving and supervising regulations for universities, private colleges and branches of foreign universities; and approving financial, administrative and academic regulations for universities.
Full report on the Saudi Gazette site