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The Female Student Study Center in al-Malaz, Riyadh was established in 1984 alongside al-Batha and al-Nafal branches [8] during the reign of King Fahd as one of three women-exclusive satellite campuses of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University to promote female education in Saudi Arabia.
The scholarship provided full-board scholarships for women including a year-round ticket, monthly stipend, full tuition coverage, free private tutoring, and even a monthly stipend and yearly ticket for a male family relative to travel with all the women students. [10] Until 2002, different departments regulated education for men and women.
The institute has over 350 students from more than 40 countries. In early 2018, the university became the first in the Kingdom to offer a driving school for women, following the allowance of King Salman to grant women the right to drive in the Kingdom. More than 50,000 female students are expected to take part. [9]
King Abdullah City for Female Students [1] (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالله للطالبات, romanized: Madīnah al-Malik ʿAbd Allāh aṭ-Ṭālibāt), officially the King Abdullah City for Female Students at Al-Imam University, is a women's only education enclave in western part of the premises of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Princess Nora University is the first college for women in Saudi Arabia and the largest globally, with 32 campuses around Riyadh city. [12] In July 2020, Lilac AlSafadi was appointed as president of the Electronic University, making her the first female president of a Saudi university that includes both male and female students. [15]
According to official figures in 2012, foreign workers filled 66 per cent of jobs in Saudi Arabia, despite an official unemployment rate of 12 per cent amongst Saudis, and expatriates sent, on average, US$18 billion each year, in remittances to their home countries. [8]
University/College Foundation City Website: Riyadh Region; King Saud University: 1957: Riyadh: www.ksu.edu.sa: Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University: 1970
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaking to a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers from Saudi Arabia in 2016. Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are "victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other labor malpractices," according to John Leonard Monterona, the Middle East coordinator of Migrante, a Manila-based OFW organization. [14]