Minister of Higher Education Khaled Al-Anqari announced here Tuesday that 92 percent of last year’s approximately one million high school leavers achieved admission to university at the last intake and that 60 percent of university places went to females. The minister revealed the figures at the opening of the International Exhibition of Higher Education and [...]

Saudi Arabia now has a national body for higher education that includes student experiences, courses, planning, assessment and evaluation. The Observatory on Higher Education was launched last Tuesday at an international exhibition on higher education in Riyadh. The observatory will review the current higher educational sector, collect, manage, analyse and publish information on the sector, [...]

The largest luxury retailer in the Middle East on Sunday revealed it will open six new stores in oil-rich Saudi Arabia this year amid tentative signs of a rebound in the designer goods market. Al Tayer Insignia, part of UAE-based Al Tayer Group, has said it is keen to tap into consumer appetite in the [...]

The US Embassy in Riyadh will hold visa interviews every Monday with Saudi students intending to pursue higher studies in American universities under the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program. Abdullah Al-Moussa, deputy minister of higher education, welcomed the move, adding that it would speed up the issuing of visas. Students will be able to know [...]

A $60m 250-bed drug and alcohol addiction treatment centre will be built in the Saudi Arabian capital city of Riyadh. The facility will be set up in partnership with America’s second oldest alcohol and drug treatment provider Brighton Hospital, and will serve the “entire Islamic Middle East”, a statement by the health provider said on [...]

Edge of Arabia, a groundbreaking cultural initiative, promoting and empowering contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia, launched today its world tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), held in Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Tower under the patronage of The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. Edge of Arabia’s participation at the GCF [...]

Saudi Arabia will introduce a consumer price index on basic food items and a number of commodities in the capital city on Tuesday, it has been reported. The index will cover essentials, like flour, rice, vegetable oil, red meat, poultry, barley, dried milk and commodities like iron and cement, the Saudi Gazette reports. The full list with [...]

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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is donating 50 million dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, foreign ministry spokesman Osama Nugali said on Monday. “The kingdom, by instruction of King Abdullah, is donating 50 million dollars… to assist the Haitian people,” Nugali told AFP. The donation, the largest announced by a Middle Eastern country, will go through [...]

Al Khalediah Arabian Horse Festival 2009, in its third edition, will be a celebration of the Arabian horse and has been implemented to promote and develop the equestrian disciplines in which this extraordinary animal competes. This festival will encompass a various number of activities that aim to restore equestrian disciplines and the importance and significance [...]