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The Programs and Statistics on Their Achievements

Following is a detailed overview of these programs and statistics on their achievements:

I. One and two-year diplomas preparing high-school graduates to obtain professional certificates.

• Major objectives of launching this program:

• Increasing the university admission capacity
• Providing job opportunities for the youth by qualifying enrollees to obtain professional certificates in a number of specializations that are required in the public and private sectors
• Giving the excelling graduates of these programs the opportunity to enroll themselves in the colleges of the university

• Programs offered:

• The programs offered in the academic year 1427 / 1428 AH:

• Secretary ‎Qualification ‎Diploma ‎
• Hajj And Umrah ‎Business ‎Administration ‎Diploma

• Number of students in the academic year 1427 / 1428 AH:

(4-1) New Students:

• Number of graduates of the program in the academic year 1427 /1428 AH:

(5-1) Total number of graduates during the year:

•Number of excelling students eligible for university enrollment in the academic year 1428 / 1429 AH

(6-1) Total number of candidates for the year:

• Number of diploma applicants in the academic year 1428/1429 AH:

There is a remarkable decrease in the number of diploma applicants as a result of strong demand for the one-year qualification program and the Community College diploma programs, as they are offered at no charge.

II. The One-year Evening Qualification Program to prepare high-school graduates for university enrollment.

• ‎Major objectives of launching this program:‎

• Participating in introducing practical solutions for the steady increase in the numbers of high-school male and female graduates beyond the capacity of universities
• Allowing high-school graduates who miss some of the requirements for direct enrollment in the university because of their low scores and students who do not pass the university admission exam to enroll themselves in the university
• Enabling the program students to adapt themselves to the university study system and preparing them for the university environment
• Giving male and female students who pass all subjects successfully with a GPA of 2.25/4 or higher the opportunity to pursue their university study in a college, taking all admission requirements of the university ‎and the college that were studied under ‎the program into account
• Providing students of the program with basic computer skills such as data entry, word processing, and using basic programs, in addition to the relevant practical applications

•Admission conditions:

• The applicant must be a Saudi national
• The applicant must have obtained a high-school or equivalent diploma with no less than 60% score
• The applicant must have obtained the high-‎school diploma no longer than five years prior to his/her application
• The applicant must not have been expelled from the university or any other university in the Kingdom on disciplinary grounds
• The applicant must be of good reputation and conduct
• The applicant must be physically fit
• The applicant must submit a completed and signed application form
• The applicant must pay the specified fees
• The applicant must satisfy any other requirements specified by the university or colleges participating in the program

• Participating colleges:

• College of Shari`ah and Islamic Studies
• College of Applied Sciences
• College of Social Sciences
• College of Da`wa and Usul-ud-Din
• College of Arabic Language
• College of Education

• Number of admitted students in the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

• Number of students who successfully graduated from the program and became eligible for university enrollment in the academic year 1428/1429 AH:

(1-5) Male students who passed the one-year qualification evening program in the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

(5-2) Female students who passed the one-year qualification evening program in the academic year 1427/1428 AH: ‎

III. The preliminary year program for students of the College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture departments (one academic year)

•Major objectives of launching this program: ‎

The program allows  high schools  graduates (scientific branch) to study at the various departments of the College of Engineering and Islamic ‎ ‎Architecture ‎after passing the first and the second levels of the study plan as required for all departments of the college except for the Department of Islamic ‎Architecture and helps them choose the specialization that is suitable for their abilities and skills by:

• Improving the students' English language skills to be able to follow the required studies in the various departments of the College of Engineering and Islamic ‎ ‎Architecture
• Teaching the basic subjects, such as mathematics and physics, to the students in English to reinforce their performance and self-confidence and develop their abilities in these fields in English
• Acquainting the students with some applied subjects and giving them the relevant skills and expertise through studying the engineering workshops and engineering drawings courses
• Fortifying students with Islamic principles and morals through studying Noble Qur'an and Islamic culture courses so that they become role models for others

•Admission conditions: ‎

• The applicant must be a Saudi national
• The applicant must have obtained a high-school diploma (scientific branch) with no less than 70% score
• The applicant must have obtained the high-‎school diploma no longer than five years prior to his/her application
• The applicant must not have been expelled from the university or any other university in the Kingdom on disciplinary grounds
• The applicant must be of good reputation and conduct
• The applicant must be physically fit
• The applicant must submit a completed and signed application form
• The applicant must pay the specified fees
• The applicant must satisfy any other requirements specified by the university or the College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture

• Departments of the College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture:

• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Department of Civil engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Computer Engineering

• Numbers of students who were admitted to and passed the program ‎in the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

The following statistical table shows the number of students who passed the program relative to total admissions

A statistical table of the number of the students who were admitted to the preliminary year program for the students of the College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture in the academic year 1427/1428 AH and their results:

Note: The number of students who passed does not include the students who did not pass the three courses that are retaken in the summer semester.

 Introduction

The College of Community Service and Continuing Education cooperates and coordinates with the colleges of the university and its educational departments that offer postgraduate studies programs, as is the case with the diploma programs offered by the College of Education represented by the Training Courses Centre.

In the academic year 1427/1428 AH, more than 245 students were admitted to the fee-based program of the General Diploma of Education. The fees of this program allocated to such programs of the College of Community Service and Continuing Education. A total of 236 enrollees graduated from the program. However, the college's most significant achievement in the academic year 1427/1428 AH was the admission of 128 master's degree students in the fee-based Postgraduate Evening Program.

As such, the college has contributed to fulfilling the wish of a large number of citizens who work in either the private or public sector, to pursue their postgraduate studies and acquire the latest knowledge through enrollment in the postgraduate studies provided by the various colleges and academic departments of the university.

I. Diploma programs jointly offered by the College‎ of Community Service and Continuing Education and the College of Education in coordination with the Deanship of Postgraduate Studies:

• 1- Diplomas offered:
• (1-1) General Diploma of Education: This diploma qualifies holders of bachelor's degrees of various academic specializations educationally and helps them practice teaching. This program consists of two semesters (30 credit hours) and its fees are 3,000 Saudi Riyals.
• (1-2) Diploma of Student Guidance and Counseling: This diploma aims at qualifying postgraduate students and student guides in public schools to be able to deal with pupils and solve their problems. This program consists of two semesters (24 credit hours) and its fees are 3,000 Saudi Riyals.
• (1-3) General Diploma of Measurement and Assessment: This diploma provides public-school teachers with the skill of knowledge organization and acquaints them with standards of ability, potential, intelligence, and acquisition of male and female students. This program consists of two semesters (24 ‎credit hours) and its fees are 3,000 ‎Saudi Riyals.

•  Achievements of the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

A number of graduates in various specializations from the university and other universities enrolled themselves in the General Diploma of Education program, as shown in the following table below:

The other programs have not been started yet, because the minimum required number of applicants was not reached.

Total number of applicants in the academic year 1428/1429 AH:

II. General Diploma of Social Service in the Medical Field Program

This program is jointly offered by the College of Community Service and Continuing Education and the College of Social Sciences (Department of Social Service).

This program was launched to satisfy the genuine need of social specialists in medical institutions to increase their scientific knowledge about this profession and acquire the necessary skills for practicing it, especially that they often feel somewhat unable to handle professional situations. Usually, this happens as a result of a theoretical deficiency that limits this practice, a lack of required skills for that, or due to the appearance of new diseases that require special treatment.

• General objectives of the program:

In light of the general objectives defined in the standard postgraduate studies regulations for Saudi universities, the general diploma of social service in the medical field program aims at achieving the following objectives:

• Providing graduates of community service departments‎ and other relevant departments, who hold bachelor's degrees and satisfy the program's admission requirements, with the opportunity to continue their qualification and improvement of their professional skills to meet the scientific and practical needs of the community, especially those related to the medical field
• Producing specialized human resources who are capable of studying and handling the social problems and issues in the Saudi community through academic development and fostering innovation in dealing with such problems and issues that are related to the medical field.
• Qualifying graduates to participate in preparing serious field studies about dealing with the urgent social problems in the Saudi community in ways that would help planners devise suitable plans to deal with them
• Providing students with modern models and methods of the professional practice of social service in the medical field and working towards adapting these models to suit the culture of the Saudi community
• Providing the various medical institutions with scientific competent human resources who could help in improving the practice of social service in this field.

•Program Admission conditions:

In addition to the admission requirements that are stated in the standard postgraduate studies regulations, its rules and organizational and executive procedures, admission to the general diploma of social service in the medical field program requires the following:

• 1. The student must hold a university degree from a social or psychological department a Saudi university or any accredited university
• 2. The student must pass the examinations required by the department
• 3. The student must not be enrolled in postgraduate studies at any other university

• Study system:

• The period of study to obtain the high diploma of social services in the medical field is one academic year of two semesters, pursuant to article (32) of the standard postgraduate studies regulations. Each semester comprises 15 credits (i.e. 30 credits for the whole program).
• Examinations are required for obtaining the high diploma of social service and their results are regulated by the postgraduate studies regulations
• The minimum grade required for passing the exams is "good".
• The proposed annual admission capacity ranges from 20 to 30 students

• Achievements of the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

• Coordination is underway with concerned governmental authorities to approve and classify the program in preparation for starting admission.

III. Evening Postgraduate Studies

• 1- Important clarification: This program provides holders of bachelor's degrees who want to pursue their postgraduate studies to obtain a master's or doctorate degree with the opportunity to do so, to conduct in-depth research, and to continue to develop their abilities and talents in certain specializations or study fields.

Objectives of the program:

• Paying particular attention to Islamic studies and other theoretical and applied studies and conducting in-depth research in these fields with the aim of introducing innovative academic and applied contributions, as well as discovering new facts
• Expanding the university's postgraduate studies admission capacity to provide the large numbers of graduates with the opportunity to pursue their postgraduate studies locally
• Participating in localizing the opportunity of postgraduate studies in our country and alleviating the burdens of pursuing such studies abroad
• Giving non-Saudis who wish to pursue their postgraduate studies an opportunity to enroll themselves in the evening program offered by Umm Al-Qura University
• Capitalizing on the academic and the scientific potentials of the university to the benefit of the community
• Matching scientific developments and making learning a continuous process that develops in accordance with the rapid social changes.
• Developing professional and academic specialized human resources, encouraging them, and qualifying them highly in various fields of knowledge

Colleges participating in the program: The College of Community Service and Continuing Education and the Deanship of Graduate Studies are the responsible parties within the university for carrying out, supervising, and monitoring this program according to the plan developed for that purpose.

The program is provided in collaboration with the following colleges:

• College of Shari`ah and Islamic Studies
• College of Da`wa and Usul-ud-Din
• College of Arabic Language
• College of Applied Sciences
• College of Social Sciences
• Makkah Community College

The other colleges of the university will be included among the participating colleges upon their acceptance to participate.

Fees:

The program aims at contributing to community service rather than making financial profits. Hence, assessment of the fees was based on the utilization of the university's physical and administrative resources such as facilities, laboratories, operation, maintenance, and administration. Also taken into account was the utilization of participating faculty members and compensating them in accordance with article 48 of the statute regulating affairs of university Saudi staff (faculty members and equivalent staff members) issued by the Higher Education Board on 04/06/1417 AH.

On that basis, the fees are as follows:

• 18,000 (eighty thousand Saudi Riyals) for theoretical colleges per academic year (two semesters)
• 22,000 (twenty-two thousand Saudi riyals) for applied sciences colleges per academic year (two semesters)
• 15,000 (fifteen thousand Saudi Riyals) for the research development year ‎ (two semesters)

Program admission and study conditions:

The applicable university's postgraduate studies regulations are the reference that regulates the program, while taking the following into consideration:

• 1- The program accepts Saudi and non-Saudi applicants
• 2- Full time dedication is not required for obtaining doctorate degrees except in some scientific specializations
• 3- Full time dedication is not required for studying the supplementary subjects. Students who study these subjects‎ enjoy the same rights as the program enrollees
• 4- Applicants who do not pass the supplementary subjects for circumstances beyond their control have the right to apply again to be admitted to the same specialization upon paying the fees specified by the College of Community Service and Continuing Education.

•  Statistics on students of the Evening Postgraduate Studies Program:

Introduction:

Working towards helping citizens develop their abilities by satisfying their educational and training needs through the programs that are provided by the college, with no restriction on age or professional experience, have been one of the main objectives of the College of Community Service and Continuing Education since its inception under the name of "Community Service Centre".

Summary of the college's achievements in the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

• 1- Conducting 12 training courses for the employees of some private and governmental (civilian and military) institutions, and other courses for members of the public (See the tables below)
• 2- Conducting 24 training courses for women to meet their needs based on the nature of their activities and interests
• 3- Participating in providing qualification courses for 78 trainees from the College of Da`wa and Usul-ud-Din
• 4- Participating by way of support and coordination in training 823 students from the training programs offered by the "Training Courses Centre" (College of Education)

Details:

I. Training courses programs that are provided by the College of Community Service and Continuing Education in coordination with the colleges and educational departments of the university:

General programs:

The college conducts open programs for all classes of the society with no restriction on age or academic qualifications. These programs are offered in the form of short-term courses handling various general affairs such as religious, educational, health, economic, social, family, traffic, and preventive awareness.

Specialized programs:

The college organizes short-term programs and courses directed to employees of the community institutions. These courses and programs are designed to suit the special needs of such institutions, which include renewing and developing the expertise in various fields using modern educational and scientific methods. These programs include special courses for imams, Da`wa activists, administrators, and teachers. They also include courses in computer applications, foreign languages, public relations, media, planning, surveying, nursing and other courses.

In addition, the college offers courses for women that focus on the field of domestic economics, family and social relationships, child-rearing, nutrition, foreign languages, and other programs that are conducted on the female students' facilities.

Courses conducted in the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

(2-1) Report of the courses conducted during the year for male trainees:

Courses conducted during the academic year 1427/1428 AH for female trainees:

II. Training courses programs jointly offered by the College of Community Service and Continuing Education and the College of Education

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Third: Courses provided by the college in cooperation with the College of Da`wa:

Introduction

In line with the mission of Umm Al-Qura University to maintain the strongest possible ties with our community, the college carries out various activities and participations in collaboration with the colleges, institutes, academic divisions, teaching staff of the university and other relevant governmental and civilian parties outside the university.

Participation and activity programs:

• Periodical awareness-raising occasions such as weeks of traffic, tree, mosques, cleanness, World Health Day, civil defense, the national comprehensive security and traffic awareness-raising campaign, the annual National Festival for Culture and Heritage (Janadria), and the like
• Religious, social and cultural awareness-raising activities such as delivering lectures and holding meetings, symposiums, forums, workshops, exhibitions, conferences, etc.

Participations, activities and implementation steps:

• 1- Obtaining all necessary official approvals before engaging in any activity or participation
• 2- Coordination with the concerned bodies and individuals in accordance with the nature of the activity or participation and the necessary arrangements
• 3- Providing all activity requirements such as lecture halls, educational aids, screens, data shows, etc.
• 4- Conducting media campaigns in newspapers and other forms of mass media and posters
• 5- Executing the activities and participations according to the preplanned steps and in accordance with their nature such as setting dates, distributing invitations, receiving visitors and everything that may activate the role of the university and the college in all occasions and gives them their due academic and social recognition.

Detailed report on the achievements of the academic year 1427/1428 AH:

Activities and participations directed to men:

• Continuously holding awareness-raising lectures for security forces staff of the Holy Mosque in Makkah all year round
• Participating in the events marking the World Civil Defense Day on 11/2/1428 AH as follows:

• 1- Printing and distributing awareness-raising pamphlets
• 2- Participating in a discussion about work field safety ‎in ‎collaboration with the Civil Defense Directorate ‎
• 3- Displaying awareness-raisings statements about work field safety on the electronic screens of the colleges to inform students on this issue

• Participating in the 23^rd Gulf Traffic Week held on 27/2/1428 by participating in the Souk Al Diyafa exhibition and distributing flyers and awareness-raising publications
• Continuously delivering awareness-raising lectures to Makkah Civil Defense Directorate staff on the last Tuesday of every month. These lectures handle various topics including dutifulness to one's parents and manners of treating them, maintenance of kinship ties, kindness towards neighbors, cooperation among work colleagues and high performance at work
• Continuously delivering awareness-raising lectures to Makkah police personnel on the last Monday of every month. These lectures handle various topics including dutifulness to one's parents and manners of treating them, maintenance of kinship ties, kindness towards neighbors, cooperation among work colleagues and high performance at work
• Printing and distributing a pamphlet on the virtues of the first ten days of Dhul Hajjah and the best deeds favored by Allah during these days.
• Promoting programs ‎of the college through advertisements published in local newspapers and displayed in public places, in addition to publishing Hijri calendars containing information about its programs and activities
• Participating in the university's program for honoring writers and dignitaries of the Kingdom. The college honored the famous late Saudi writer Salih Jamal.
• Delivering awareness-raising lectures to prisoners and prisons personnel in Makkah as shown in the table below:

Prisoners' awareness-raising lectures:

Activities and participation directed to women:

• Marking the Saudi National Day by producing national sense and hanging national flags in different locations in the corridors. The female students also participated in designing pamphlets and family to be distributed to female students of the college
• Visiting various institutions such as the general prison and girls care house to deliver cultural and awareness-raising lectures
• Marking the World Child Day by holding a celebration, during which Mrs. Daliya Ghubashi delivered a PowerPoint presentation and relevant pamphlets were also distributed.
• Marking Health Week through the following activities:

• 1- Dr. Zakiya Banjar delivered a lecture titled, "Common Adolescent and Youth Diseases"
• 2- ‎Dr. Salwa Al-Bardisi delivered a lecture titled, "Habits Harmful to Health "
• 3- ‎Dr. Layla Al-Mazroo and Ms. Ranya Zahid delivered a joint seminar titled, "Your Psychological Health"
• 4- Dr. Layla Al-Mazroo delivered a lecture titled, "Psychological Adolescence Problems ‎and Psychological Disorders"

• Distributing a Da`wa-related diary titled "How to make Ramadan Different?" to female students.
• Holding a meeting joined Dr. Batol Mughairibi and female students to discuss the issue of "Friendship Gold Secrets and Wining Others". A PowerPoint presentation was given during the meeting and friendship-promoting‎ brochures and cards were distributed. The meeting was jointly organized by Department of Guidance, Organization, and Reception Committee.
• A Meeting was held with Mrs. Latifa Umar Qadir, a social specialist in the Guidance Office, Umm Al-Qura University, to discuss some cases and problems of the female students and how they should be handled.
• Distributing motivating, instructional, and guiding pamphlets to female students during their exams to acquaint them with the proper  study techniques and warn them against cheating.
• Holding morning sessions for teaching Quran in cooperation with the Guidance Office in Umm Al-Qura University (three days a week).
• Dr. Samya Simbawah delivered a visually-illustrated lecture titled, "Beware!"
• Participating with the college's activity office in preparing honorary certificates for all participants in the Arabic Language Week activities include faculty staff, personnel and female students.
• Distributing a number of "My Gift to You" packages to female students. These packages comprise various Islamic audio materials and instruction brochures.
• Dr. Salihah Al-Hulais delivered a lecture titled "Our girls and the satellite TV channel". During the events, flyers about the influence of these channels were distributed in addition to audio material titled , "Ad-Dajjal Satellite TV Channel"
• Producing a special advertisement about the meeting with Maria Diet Centre titled (Your Health in Your Food )