20-billion-riyal plan to build 3,200 schools across the country

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JEDDAH: The Ministry of Education has launched a SR20 billion project to construct 3,200 schools for boys and girls in different parts of the Kingdom. The new school buildings will accommodate more than 1.7 million students.

Keeping pace with the King Abdullah Project for the Development of General Education, the new buildings are designed and constructed according to international specifications. “The ministry is handed over every day two new school buildings by contractors,” said Abdul Rahman Al-Ahmed, deputy minister of education for buildings. He said the new projects would help the ministry get rid of its rented buildings. “This has been one of the priorities of the ministry,” he pointed out.