The King Faisal Foundation is progressing with the blessed steps that it took when it launched the “preparation of students, teachers and leaders for the application International Baccalaureate in Saudi Arabia”, a charitable national educational project, aimed at developing education in Saudi Arabia, which was supported by the Ministry of Education since its inception in late 2014.
In accordance with the objectives of the project, a group of elementary schools and middle schools will be prepared to start applying the International Baccalaureate program. A project management team from the Foundation and the IB has conducted field visits to a number of major civil and international schools in the Eastern Province over the past period. The visits aimed to inform officials about the nature of the project, its objectives, and the training program for participating schools, which The King Faisal Foundation will support without incurring any financial expenses on the schools.
According to the project timeline, an official visual presentation of the project took place in Dammam on February 22, 2015, and will take place in Riyadh on February 25, 2015 in the King Faisal Center Auditorium in the King Faisal Foundation building, and in Jeddah on March 1, 2015 in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce. The presentations will provide a thorough explanation about the project and will allow the owners of private schools to discuss their observations on the preparatory program and the readiness of their schools to take advantage of it.
A group of certified experts from the International Baccalaureate will nominate a number of willing schools to participate in the preparatory program, which will be conducted in Arabic. In total, 18 schools will be selected in the Kingdom: 6 schools in each of Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province.
After the visits were conducted in the three regions, the owners and academic officials of these schools expressed their interest in developing the level of educational services provided to the student and their faith in the importance of high-quality pedagogic supervision and the positive returns that result from the strategic partnership between the schools and the global educational institutions. This project will be a good opportunity for schools that are looking to achieve concrete steps toward enhancing the level of performance between employees and students. The preparatory program is unique and cannot be provided individually, but only as part of a competitive joint venture that will harness the opportunities to take advantage of it, especially at a time when the Kingdom is witnessing rapid growths in the level of education.