Development of higher education in Saudi Arabia

✍ Scribed by Mahmoud Abdullah Saleh

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 413 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00138089

✦ Synopsis

This article seeks to trace the development of higher education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from its origins to the present day. The study includes discussion of the historical roots of education as based on Islam, Islamic philosophy of education, the aims and objectives of higher education and modern university education. Empirical statistics are given to substantiate the Kingdom's rapid progress in higher education. Since 1957 when modern university education began with a single institution with twenty-one students and a staff of nine it has grown until twenty-five years later in 1982 higher education had grown to seven institutions with 63,563 students and a teaching staff of 6,906. The study examines these aspects of higher education; Saudi students studying abroad, foreign students studying in Saudi Arabia, female education, the role of the Ministry of Higher Education and the financing of higher education.