TREP$, short for entrepreneur, is an after-school program that teaches children between grades 5 to 10 everything they need to start their own business. It comprises of a series of carefully planned 6 workshops that are information-filled and action-packed. About 60 children from Kingdom School, Najd School, King Khaled International School, Jawahir Al Riyadh International [...]

The Institutes of Technology in Galway, Athlone and Waterford have signed a deal worth €9m which will see more than 1,000 Saudi Arabian students enter Irish higher education over the next four years. The scheme will commence in September with 80 students enrolling in both GMIT and AIT and 100 in WIT, at the start [...]

Qudratt Institute for human resources will be running a 5 day course on leadership and management certified by ILM Leadership and management Institutes located in the United Kingdom. The course (Arabic) will take place in Riyadh starting  Feb 6, 2010.  The course will focus on: The first unit covers the theroy of leadership while the [...]

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 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 [...]

King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has approved the extension of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Foreign Scholarships for five more years. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted Dr. Khaled Bin Mohammad Al-Anqari, Minister of Higher Education, as saying that the program aims at providing citizens with opportunities to receive [...]

Mohammed bin Abdullah El-Kuwaiz, Managing Director, Derayah Financial Corp. The lecture on “Five Keys to Successful Investing in a Difficult Financial Time” will be presented by Mr. Mohammed El-Kuwaiz, Managing Director, Derayah Financial Corp. Event Address Address description: Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), ArRiyadh. Sponsor: Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) in [...]

IDEA WORKSHOP (Women) From 02-02-1431 TO 02-02-1431 H From 17-01-2010 To 17-01-2010 G The workshop for women will be held under the slogan Ideas. It aims to enable participants to assess and develop new business opportunities. Event Address Address description: Saudi National Information and Communication Technology Incubator (BADIR), ArRiyadh Sponsor: Saudi National Information and Communication [...]

The Free Workshop on “Problem-Solving and Decision-Making” aims to enable participants to learn how to creatively brainstorm solutions, face obstacles from a whole new perspective and discover how to effectively use a step-by-step process to achieve greater results. Event Address Address description: Saudi National Information and Communication Technology Incubator (BADIR), ArRiyadh. Sponsor: Saudi National Information [...]