Al-Sheikh: Saudi universities to provide English programs with international standards

Al-Sheikh: Saudi universities to provide English programs with international standards

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Minister of Public Education Hamad Al-Sheikh said that arrangements have been made with public and private universities in the Kingdom to provide English language programs with international standards and specifications. Addressing a press conference, organized by the Human Capability Development Program Committee to brief on the salient features of the Strategy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program here on Sunday, he said that some Saudi universities follow study programs such as medicine, engineering and other majors in the English language. “This represents good preparation for the students and reduces the chances of failure in exams in the scholarship country,” he said when asked about the developments related to the English language requirement for scholarships. Al-Sheikh said that the English language has been localized in the Kingdom with the aim of raising the student’s performance level, as well as to help them possess all the requirements for university admission once and for all, besides preparing them to live in the country to where they are leaving for pursuing higher studies. The minister said that the strategy began with an analysis of nearly 90 scholarship programs globally, and then began to design what