Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Dr.Abdullah Abdulrahman AlOthman

     Dr. Abdullah AlOthman has been the Rector of King Saud University (KSU), since 2008. He helped our community by changing the course of education at the university, in two ways. First, he developed the education. He attracted scientists and Nobel research chairs. Also, he employed a lot of demonstrators and lecturers, and he encouraged all the KSU faculty members to continue their higher education in foreign universities to gain experience to new cultures, in addition to new ways of teaching. Furthermore, he changed the curriculums, so he added a freshman year in most majors. On the other hand, he developed the infrastructure. He founded The Riyadh Technology Valley, the university website, and The Department of Deanship of Skills, Quality, and E-Learning. Now in 2010, King Saud University is ranked 164th globally, an improvement of 35 spots since the 2009rankings, also it's mentioned position as the top ranked university in the Arab world. On Aug 25, 2010, KSU achieved the first place in United Nations Award for improving the delivery of public services. Finally, he helped his community by changing the course of education in two ways, the education and infrastructure development.
Dr.Abdullah, I wish you further progress.

2 comments:

  1. He did a lot of things for the University and the country, it is very impressive.

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  2. Wow! He did good things in your country.
    Maybe I think he is also trying to develop the KSU now. He is very cool :-).

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