JEDDAH: Literacy ratio of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been declared up to 96 per cent in result of following significant footsteps for mega increment.
The Director General Education of KSA’s eastern province, Abdul Rahman Al-Modairis stated, ““The Kingdom has made remarkable achievements in its relentless struggle against illiteracy and has scaled down the illiteracy rate from 60 percent in 1972 down to four percent today,”
The revelation of the significant increment in literacy ratio been made on ‘World’s Illiteracy Eradication Day’, which was internationally celebrated across the globe on September 8.
According to the official, an appropriate syllabus had been designed for adult education in 1956 and began implementing it in 1957 which resulted about 99 percent of school-going children, including girls, while one or two new schools are being opened daily in the Kingdom.
Al-Modairis added that 21 adult education centers have been opened in various parts of the province in which 600 people are studying while the new 72 adult women literacy centers likely to facilitate 1,550 women. Moreover, the Saudi government launched special programmes for the locals residing in rural locations where no adult schools have been opened.
For elders, the education department opened various night schools in different parts of the country providing intermediate and secondary education to men and women who couldn’t complete their school education in the past.
A major feature of the 1956 adult education syllabus was to reduce the period of education to three years, on the other hand Qur’an schools also played a major role in making people literate in the Kingdom.
The government issued the Adult Education and Illiteracy Eradication Regulation in 1972, defining the general policy for education and literacy drives. The regulation pointed out that it was the duty of the public and the private sectors to educate people of age.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia likely to made another significant move for boosting literacy rate by establishment of the General Secretariat for Adult Education, the department earlier suggested in 1984.
The next major move made by the government to support the literacy drive was to establish the General Secretariat for Adult Education in 1984. Qur’an schools also played a major role in making people literate in the Kingdom.
Abdul Rahman Al-Modairis expressed the aims by saying, “We look for the day when the Kingdom will achieve a total eradication of illiteracy,” he said.
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