Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah approved
launching of the electronic university in September last year.
“The courses of the electronic university will be in line
with the plans for higher education in the Kingdom,” Al-Mousa said, while
expressing thanks to the minister for his appointment.
The university is a government educational institution that
provides electronic education based on information and communication
technologies and the techniques of e-learning and distance learning, Al-Anqari
said on an earlier occasion.
The multibillion university will have faculties of
administrative and financial sciences and computing and informatics in addition
to a faculty of health sciences. It will provide intensive courses to help
prepare Saudi students for roles in business and industry as well as research
and development.
The university will offer a range of courses in the field of
electronics and its applications, providing bachelor's and master's degrees,
while also offering other non-electronics related courses.
The Kingdom’s annual budget allocated 26 percent to
education with the aim of enabling the country to achieve outstanding progress
in education, Al-Anqari said while speaking at a function at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
The minister said the Kingdom attracted brilliant scholars
who can make pioneering contributions to the development of education in the
country. The country also has 131,600 students studying abroad.
