Saudi minister of education witnesses start of academic year

The Minister of Education Dr Azzam Bin Mohammad Al-Dakhil witnessed this morning the start of the new academic year of public education joined by (5,549,937) students from various regions and governorates of the Kingdom distributed in 35,488 schools, and launched two modern schools in Riyadh, declaring that the ministry within the framework of its strategic plan to build advanced school buildings this year withdrew 1300 stalled school projects.

This came in a press statement made by the minister after inaugurating today Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi middle school building and Khaled bin Zaid primary school in Al-Qadisiyah neighborhood in Riyadh, in presence of Deputy Minister of Health Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Dhweelia, and a number of officials of the departments of education