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The Role Of The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A) is an absolute monarch and the education system is being governed by the Ministry of Education. Ministry of Education only employees Saudi Nationals, most of these employees are hired not based on their experience and qualification but chosen from a few and limited individuals based on their strong connection to monarchy, politics and status. Islam is the official religion of K.S.A and Arabic is the main language. There is a rapid increase in the opening of English language schools and often or not can be seen as a huge factor towards securing a job if Saudi Nationals can speak English, however, there are still limitations in the country as the older generation are unable to speak English and still …show more content…

Education in K.S.A is a mirrored system based on other Gulf countries and teaching was limited to elders teaching without any formal qualification, curricula and inspection authorities (Litz and Scott 2017). The first supervised education body was established in 1963 (International Bureau of Education 2007) who would serve under the monarchy. There was no formal education system in K.S.A till the 1970s, until the boom of oil, prior to this there was very limited state income due to lack of found resources, exports or any other form of the industry in the desert region. Since, the production of oil, K.S.A has immensely benefited from the income being generated due to the high demand for oil globally. There has been a gradual change in education since the 70s and some would even argue the country has progressed in the terms of education from just offering teaching of Quran and Islamic studies to offering various different international curricula which are being taught across the country within International Schools, nonetheless, there has been limited progress in Saudi Education within state schools. Accordingly, the introduction of Vision 2030 seems to be a huge push on improving state education in K.S.A.
There has been an increase in expansion of K-12 schools, technical colleges and universities nationwide, which has led to a deep effect in the region (Burden-Leahy 2009) and Macpherson et al. (2007) describe this as a crisis in the

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