Under the auspices
of the custodian of the two Holy Mosques, Dr. “Khalid Bin Mohamed Al Anqari”,
Minister of Higher Education, opened on Tuesday (15/4/2014) the “International
Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education” (IECHE) in its fifth session, under
the slogan “Innovation in Higher Education”.
The exhibition,
which runs through Thursday (17/04/2014) (436) university and the international
organizations from (37) countries, and (15) Saudi university and organization, during
the exhibition and conference (75) workshops will take place in addition to a
number of public lectures with (22) international experts speaking, which provides
an opportunity for students visiting the exhibition to be introduced to best leading
universities.
The Minister said
"the Conference and Exhibition is to strengthen cooperation between Saudi universities
and their international counterparts, to achieve scientific partnership between them, which we
saw the fruits of in the previous Exhibition and Conference sessions, which
confirms the quality of our universities at the international level",
he added that the Ministry had invited to
participate in the Exhibition and Conference the best universities on the world
ratings list, along with a number of higher education institutions and other
relevant international organizations, also Saudi universities, higher institutes,
measurement and evaluation authorities, accreditation, e-learning, distance
education, centers of research and studies are participating in the Exhibition and the Conference, his Excellency also stressed the
importance of providing fair opportunity to introduce leaders and officials of
the leading universities in the world, and professionals and experts in higher
education to the scientific and practical potential of Saudi universities, and
the opportunity for an exchange of experiences between participants in
practical and scientific areas in the higher education sector, and strengthen ties
among them, pointing to the importance of addressing the main theme of the
Conference of the social responsibility of universities.
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