The Initiatives Management and Vision Realization Office at Umm Al-Qura University participated in a workshop on measuring indicators of university education at the Ministry of Education headquarters in Riyadh, on Thursday, 24 Rabi` Al-Awwal, 1441 A.H., corresponding to 21 November 2019 A.C.

The workshop was opened by His Excellency the Deputy Ministry for Higher Education, Abdul-Rahman bin Naser Al-Khuraif. He explained that the aim of the workshop is to discuss these indicators, and ways of cooperation in measuring them in order to help achieve the desired objectives.

His Excellency explained that there are five main indicators of university education, emanating from the Saudi Vision 2030. These are: the dropout rate from post-secondary education, the average cost of a university student, proportion of Saudi faculty members versus non-Saudis, stakeholder satisfaction with university graduates, and the percentage of those enrolled in the labor market within six months of graduation.

The workshop focused on discussing the first two indicators, explaining the significant progress made by the ministry in automating the process of calculating the rest of the indicators in complementarity with the various bodies.

Participants also discussed the development of new performance indicators to serve the measurement of the quality of university education and the quality of its outcomes, taking into account the special features in the different universities, especially with the new universities law in Saudi Arabia.