Saudi Arabia: Incentives for Chinese language students

Saudi Arabia: Incentives for Chinese language students

The student who successfully completes the course will get a 10-hour voluntary work added up to his/her cooperative education.

Moreover, the five best learners will be honoured by their respective education department, with the final number of brilliant students to reach 16 boys and 16 girls, who will be feted by the Education Ministry. Those students will also be given access to knowledge-orientated programmes and trips as a reward.

The ministry has authorised local education authorities to offer other incentives in line with the law, according to the report.

The ministry has underscored the implementation of a programme to teach the Chinese language to the second-year students in the secondary schools during the first semester of the current academic year that started earlier this week.

According to the plan, two proficiency classes are allotted per week with engagement of facilitators in encouraging group thinking and self-learning.

Saudi Arabia has said it plans to expand teaching the Chinese language after Chinese President Xi Jinping made an official visit last December to the kingdom where he met King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed.

Xi said in Riyadh that his country would offer thousands of opportunities to teach the Chinese language in the Gulf countries.

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