Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari said the KAU advisory body would include pioneers in higher education, industry and production and those who have made exceptional contributions toward achieving progress and development in their countries.
“The university’s council will select the members of the advisory body on the basis of its own criteria,” the minister said. He added that the council would also draft the body’s rules and regulations. He said the king has approved plans to open new research centers for computer science, applied medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, science, Islamic studies, Arabic language and social studies at Qassim University.
A deanship for distance education will be established at Dammam University. “The king has also approved the formation of a number of new deanships at various universities and new departments at the College of Naturopathy at Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University,” he said.
Al-Anqari said the king renewed the terms of a number of university undersecretaries including Sahl Abdul Jawad of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Hani Ghazi of Umm Al-Qura University, and Abdul Aziz Al-Saati of Dammam University.
