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Saudi allocates $533m for 22 university projects

Minister of Higher Education signs 22 contracts to improve facilities at universities.

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UNI LIFE: Students at the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). SR2bn has been earmarked to improve facilities at the kingdoms other universities. (Getty Images)
UNI LIFE: Students at the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). SR2bn has been earmarked to improve facilities at the kingdoms other universities. (Getty Images)

Saudi education officials have allocated SR2bn ($533m) to improve facilities at the kingdom’s universities, local media reports on Thursday.

Khaled Al-Anqari, the Minister of Higher Education, signed 22 contracts for works including the building of an educational hospital and a faculty of architecture at Hail University.

A total of SR1.7bn has been allocated for expansion projects, reports Arab News, including building a community college at Taiba University, residential quarters for faculty members at the Islamic University and Tabuk University, and a landscaping project at Jazan University.

Al-Anqari also signed five contracts worth SR230m to furnish and equip science faculties at Baha, Jazan, Hail and Kharj universities, the paper reports.

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