“What controls the success of universities under the new system is their ability to build endowment programs that give them self-sufficiency in spending.”
-Amal Al-Fawzan, professor of curriculum and teaching methodology at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, in Riyadh discussing Saudi Arabia’s new higher-education governance system which grants public universities more financial, administrative and academic independence. The new system covers 29 public universities, but so far only King Saud University, in Riyadh; King Abdulaziz University, in Jeddah, and Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, in Dammam have started working under it. These three universities have a total of about 145,000 students in their various disciplines. [Al-Fanar Media]
