The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is embarking on another banner year for education by announcing an education and training budget of almost US$37 billion, an increase of 13% compared to last year’s fiscal budget. This new budget will fund the King Abdullah Project for Development of Public Education. The Project aims to create 1200 new schools and complete almost 4000 school buildings already in progress. The Higher Education sector will be able to build four new universities, expand existing universities, and increase scholarships abroad, among other goals. Currently, the Kingdom offers more than 60,000 scholarships to enable Saudis to study abroad while the Kingdom grows its educational system in both scope and quality to meet the ever-increasing demands of its increasing population of young people.
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