Accord reached between Higher Education Ministry and Tabuk

Riyadh, November 15, SPA -- Minister of Higher Education Dr Khalid
bin Mohammed Al-Anqari signed here today a cooperation agreement
between the Ministry of Higher Education and Tabuk University.


Under the agreement, the Ministry of Higher Education will help the
University to implement the program of the preliminary year for the
faculties of medicine, applied medical sciences, engineering and
computer at a cost of SR 12 million.


He also signed contracts for implementing housing units for the
members of the academic staff at a number of regions in the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia at a total cost of more than SR 1.5 Billion.


Under the contracts, a project of housing units will be implemented
at King Saud University (at a cost of SR 502 million), Jizan
University (SR 548 million), Tabuk University (SR 400 million), and
the Islamic University of Madinah (SR73 million).

It is worth mentioning that the Higher Education Ministry has
recently signed SR 711,335,900 worth of contracts for implementing
housing units for the members of the academic staff at the colleges
of al-Muzahmeyah, Al-Kharj and Hafar-al-batin.