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Saudi Arabia plans to open 17 new colleges
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JEDDAH - A plan to transfer 45 health colleges and five health institutes for girls from the Ministry of HealthMinistry of Health
to universities in respective cities has been approved. Higher Education Minister Dr Khaled Al Anqari said on Monday that Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has approved the plan and added that the King has also approved the establishment of 17 new colleges in different parts of the country.
Al Anqari said the newly approved colleges were designed to meet labour market requirements. They include a college of administrative sciences and finance in Abha, two colleges of business administration in Arar and Jizan, a dental college in Jizan, three colleges in Rabigh for medicine, engineering, and computer science and information technology.
Rafha will get a college for pharmacology while Al Ahsa will get an applied medical sciences college. A college of engineering will be opened in Dawadmi and a college of computer science and IT in Majmaa. A college of architecture and planning will be established at Qassim University, a college of languages in Najran University, a college of administrative sciences and tourism at Umm Al Qura University and a college of Engineering at Imam University.
Al Anqari said 20 education colleges for girls outside Riyadh would be shifted from the Women's University in Riyadh to King Saud University. "These colleges are situated in towns that already house colleges of King Saud University and it will be easy for the university to supervise them," he said. The community college in Al Kharj has been shifted from Imam University to KSU on the same grounds.
"King Abdullah's approval has also been received to open new departments at universities," he said. They include departments for maxillofacial surgery, paediatric dentistry, preventive dental medicine and dental education at Taiba University's College of Medicine, medical education department at Tabuk University's College of Medicine, and department of architecture at the College of Engineering of Najran University.
Al Anqari said a nanotechnology centre would be established at Taiba University in the holy city of Madinah while a medical research centre would be set up at Jizan University. Imam University will get an applied linguistics centre while King Saud University's College of Nursing will have a research centre.
He said the terms of several university under-secretaries have been renewed for three years. They include Dr Abdul Aziz Al Suwayan of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; Dr Saeed Mohamed Rafae of King Khaled University; Dr Abdul Aziz Al Surrani, Dr Talal Al Halawani and Dr Osama Abdul Aziz of Taiba University. Dr Abdullah Al Shathry and Dr Abdul Rahman Al Dawood have been appointed new under-secretaries at Imam University, and Dr Saeed Aseeri at King Khaled University.
By Habib Shaikh (Our correspondent)
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