Abdullah Al Thaqafi, director-general of the education administration in the holy city of Makkah, said that the Ibn Khaldun Boys Secondary in Jeddah and a number of schools in Riyadh and Dammam have been selected for the implementation of the King Abdullah Project for General Education Development.
Crown Prince Sultan will head a ministerial committee to supervise the project, which will begin with creating a high-tech classroom environment in the kingdom in six years. More than 400,000 teachers will be trained to handle classes in the high-tech style. “In the initial phase, students of selected high schools will join orientation courses during the vacation while actual classes will start from next school year,” said Naif Al Rumi, director general of the project.
