Oil fuels Saudi Arabia’s rise as a regional science powerhouse

Developing Experts are in Saudi Arabia this week. Today we are looking forward to paying a visit to Ibn Khaldoun School. 

Did you know that while Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest oil producer, the country has directed a good portion of its revenue to improving education and research? These improvements are driven by a comprehensive national science strategy to be implemented until 2030. Over the past five years, it has made vast investment into high-tech universities and cutting-edge laboratories, and by 2015 Saudi Arabia became the Arab region's most prolific nation in research.