UAE Business: KSA 9th globally in technical education, vocational training – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: KSA 9th globally in technical education, vocational training – Gulf Digital News

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been ranked 9th globally in the Technical Education and Vocational Training Index of the Global Knowledge Index 2021.

Issued by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, the index aims to measure global cognitive development as a comprehensive concept that is closely related to sustainable development and the various aspects of modern human life, building knowledge societies and economies, and setting development policies to anticipate future.

The Global Knowledge Index measures the cognitive development in 154 countries worldwide, based on seven composite sub-indices that highlight the performance of six vital sectors: Pre-university education, technical education and vocational training, higher education, R&D, ICT, innovation, and economics, as well as a sub-index for the enabling environment to assess the social, political, economic, health and environmental context incubating these sectors.

KSA excels in sub-axes

The technical education and vocational training indicator has several sub-axes where KSA excelled in, to emerge number one globally in the proportion of students enrolled in non-university post-secondary education in vocational and technical programmes.

It also ranked 2nd in the world in quality and qualifications in technical education and vocational training, 4th in the technical education and vocational