Friday, 14 December 2007
By Kholood F. Al-Rhamah
By Kholood F. Al-Rhamah
The Ministry of Education launched a new SR5 billion project to build 1,000 girls' schools in big cities and rural areas. Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, undersecretary of the building agency at the ministry, said they aim to further lessen the number of student applicants who are turned down by schools due to lack of classroom space and facilities.
The population capacity of the school buildings will be on a case-to-case basis. "That's because the number of students in big cities like Jeddah or Riyadh is greater than the number of students in the rural area," said Al-Ahmad.
He added that 440 schools with a total cost of SR2 billion were built this year. "The number of schools completed by the building agency averaged three schools every two days," he said.
The number of rented schools in the Kingdom has gone from 3,885 to 1,702 due to the ministry's recent projects.
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A great step taken by the inistry of Education. Build them and they will come.
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