King Salman Science Oasis launches program to boost children’s skills

Program aims to develop children’s abilities through an innovative mix of educational content, mental challenges, and interactive games. (SPA)
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Updated 16 November 2025
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King Salman Science Oasis launches program to boost children’s skills

  • Program aims to develop children’s abilities through an innovative mix of educational content, mental challenges, and interactive games

RIYADH: The King Salman Science Oasis has launched a play-based learning program for children as part of the festival, “Math, the Language of Science.” 

The program is being held in partnership with the Makkah region’s General Directorate of Education and Umm Al-Qura University, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday.

It aims to develop children’s abilities through an innovative mix of educational content, mental challenges, and interactive games.

Running until Nov. 30, the program cultivates cognitive skills in engaging ways, enhancing learning speed, comprehension, creative thinking, problem-solving, self-awareness, and essential life skills.

It focuses on core abilities such as quick-wittedness, memory enhancement, concentration, balanced thinking, motor coordination, systematic problem-solving through analysis and experimentation, and fostering imagination and innovative idea development.


Saudi and Qatari foreign ministers co-chair coordination council in Riyadh

Updated 04 December 2025
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Saudi and Qatari foreign ministers co-chair coordination council in Riyadh

  • Meeting discussed strengthening cooperation through several initiatives
  • Executive committee provided an overview of the council’s activities

LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, co-chaired the executive committee meeting of the Saudi-Qatari Coordination Council in Riyadh.

The meeting on Thursday reviewed ties and ways to enhance them at both bilateral and multilateral levels. They also discussed strengthening cooperation through several initiatives that could elevate relations to broader prospects, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

Both sides commended the cooperation among the committees under the coordination council.

The executive committee secretariat provided an overview of the council’s activities and its committees over the past period, along with the latest updates and preparatory work for the eighth meeting, the SPA added.

At the end of the meeting, the ministers signed the minutes of the council’s executive committee.