Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Training has instructed all private and non-private secondary faculties within the Kingdom to implement this system of educating Mandarin Chinese language language on the fee of two lessons per week. In response to the ministry’s directive, the fourth interval of each Sunday and Monday shall be assigned to facilitators to show this language and that this shall be included within the tutorial agenda.
The training departments throughout the Kingdom are making the mandatory preparations to implement the Chinese language language enrichment program for second 12 months college students of secondary faculties throughout the proficiency lessons throughout a semester within the present tutorial 12 months. The semester will likely be rotated among the many college students of the second grade of secondary faculties in the course of the tutorial 12 months.
There will likely be focused variety of faculties for educating Chinese language beneath every academic division. The Ministry of Training will encourage facilitators within the strategy of educating the language. That is a part of the implementation of the third section of the appliance of the tracks system that features educating Chinese language, new programs, commencement challenge, elective area, steerage for proficiency lessons, hybrid training, and volunteering.
The ministerial information, equipped to the academic departments, emphasised that academic departments would allot at the least one proficiency class per week in the whole semester, to implement the Chinese language language program, and assign it to a facilitator, whose function is restricted to help and information college students for self-learning. This system then will likely be re-applied on a brand new part of scholars for every semester, and supplies for particular enrichment will likely be offered for utility along with analysis instruments.
It’s noteworthy that the choice to educating the Chinese language language in Saudi faculties was taken in the course of the go to of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman to the Chinese language capital Beijing. An settlement was reached between the 2 international locations to formulate a plan to incorporate the Chinese language language as a part of the curriculum in any respect academic ranges in Saudi faculties and universities.
The initiative comes as a part of strengthening bilateral cooperation and communication in all fields, along with constructing complete strategic partnership in a manner realizing the aspirations of the Saudi and Chinese language leaderships.