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[scot47]

Salary increase for all English teachers.- SR15,000 annually from next academic year (Sept 2014). I assume that all universities will be paying the same increase.

Of course for those in ARAMCO this is only loose change ! For those in the 500 Club - Manna !

[teacherwhy16?]

[nomad soul]

[teacherwhy16?]

Was wondering because PNU lowered their salaries a couple/few years ago (not sure when) from more than that above to less. So, I am just wondering if other universities will follow, or just keep doing what they are doing.

[rollingk]

Even at those esteemed govt universities, money shifts about and there are some rather unsavory but predictable behaviors which often sees planned increases whittled down considerably.

[scot47]

KFUPM acts on instructions from the Ministry of Higher Education.

[nomad soul]

[scot47]

Not sure if MOHE has jurisdiction over "Female Education" ! For schools administration there are two separate administrations - for males and the separate admin for females !

[jumpingmonkey]

Hi Scott47, Would you care to reveal your information source?

[johnslat]

Took about 30 seconds on Google:

"The GPGE was cancelled and the girls' education pre-university levels were merged with the Ministry of Education while the university level was merged
with the Ministry of Higher Education [10]

The General Administration of Girls' Education was established independently from the Ministry of Education in 1960 and was put under the administration of the ministry in 2002.[8]

In 1957, the Dar al-Hanan and Nassif private schools for girls opened in the city of Jeddah. The openings were prompted by Iffat, the wife of Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Afterwards the Saudi government began opening state-operated girls schools. Religious fundamentalists protested the openings of the schools. In 1963 King Faisal brought soldiers to control protesters when a girls' school opened in Buraydah. During Saudi Arabia's first oil boom many Saudi males who studied abroad brought foreign wives back to Saudi Arabia. This caused concern among Saudi fathers with daughters eligible for marriage.[9] In the late 1970s the Saudi government greatly increased university spots for women in order to make Saudi women more desirable as wives for educated Saudi men.[10]

60% of university students in Saudi Arabia are Saudi females.[11] In Saudi Arabia, women in the labor force are mainly in the education sector.[12] The first group of women graduated from a law program in 2008. Women are not able to practice law, but the government has indicated that they are able to work in courts to assist female clients. This has still not happened.[13] According to the World Bank report, female students in higher education in Saudi Arabia out number those in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and West Bank and Gaza.[14]

According to the World Bank, gross enrollment rate for female is 36.1 percent, gross enrollment rate for male is 24.7 percent, and gross enrollment rate for total was 30.2 percent in 2006.[7] There are thousands of female professors throughout Saudi Arabia.[15]

Around 2009, an expert on girls' education became the first woman minister in Saudi Arabia. Nora bint Abdullah al-Fayez, a US-educated former teacher, was made deputy education minister in charge of a new department for female students.[16] In addition, Saudi Arabia provides female students with one of the world's largest scholarship programs. By this program, thousands of women have earned doctorates from Western universities.[15]

The building of colleges and universities for women, which was recently announced by the government, is critically important.[who?][17] Women comprise 60% of Saudi Arabia's college students but only 21% of its labor force, much lower than in neighboring countries. 85% of employed Saudi women work in education, 6% in public health, and 95% in the public sector.[18] Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) is the first women's university in Saudi Arabia and largest women-only university in the world,[18][19] composed of 32 campuses across the Riyadh region.[20]"

Regards,
John

[scot47]

My info about the pay hike ? Colleagues currently teaching at KFUPM. The hokum about MOHE is from my memory banks which are beginning to run down. My friend HAL warned me about this.

[jumpingmonkey]

Thanks!...However, it doesn't seem to apply to new hires. At least not at KAU. The offers from there seem to be quite a bit lower than 15 thousand SAR/month.

[jumpingmonkey]

Thanks!...However, it doesn't seem to apply to new hires. At least not at KAU. The offers from there seem to be quite a bit lower than 15 thousand SAR/month.

[scot47]

ANNUAL payrise at KFUPM was reported as SR15,000, ie a rise of SR1,250 a month.

[sicklyman]

wow... don't spend it all at once!