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Saudi Arabia’s Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa approved on Wednesday a government plan of shift the Kingdom’s educational system to the digital education in a move to support developing students and teachers.
According to the Saudi news agency Sabaq, Al-Issa said in a statement that the ministry is planning to stop printing educational books and courses within two or three years.
He explained that the project will be implemented on 150 schools in the first year, 1500 in the second year, and all Kingdom’s schools during the third year. The ministry has allocated 1.6 billion riyals for all the project phases.
The education minister stressed that the project comes under the kingdom’s National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020 and Vision 2030.