Girls education addresses forum in Britain

Saudi Deputy Minister of Education for Girls Education Nora bint Abdullah Al-Fayez said that the Kingdom's budget for the fiscal year 2012 has allocated SR 137.9 billion for education, which represents more than 25 percent of the State's total expenditures, noting that this generous support for education comes in implementation of the vision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to transform the Kingdom into a knowledge-based society by the year 2022. Addressing World Education Forum and Technical Exhibition in London last night, Nora Al-Fayiz pointed out that the number of school students and teachers has doubled every ten years since 1970 and it reached now more than 5 million students, half of them males and half of females, who are educated in more than 34,000 schools throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She reviewed the project of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for the development of education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.