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Holding education ministry responsible
Al-Madinah newspaperTHE Ministry of Education has confirmed that text books for both elementary and middle schools were ready, and so were for the high school. All schools received their books except for high school, which was scheduled to arrive by the end of the first week, according to the special committee overlooking the start of the new school year.According to Mubarak Al-Osaimi, official spokesman of the Ministry of Education, the committee responsible for improving school curricula was late in handing over the final draft of books to the printing press. He stressed that this will not hinder the education process. Schools initially will utilize the days to prepare the final plan for student, including helping students to choose the courses and finalizing their schedules.According...
September 10, 2018

Holding education ministry responsible

Working on hourly basis to reduce unemployment
Al-Riyadh newspaperI THINK it is about time for the private sector to end jobs that are paying a monthly salaries and have jobs that pay by the hour instead. It goes side by side with Vision 2030 and will help reducing unemployment to seven percent and even lower. These establishments employ more than eight million expatriate workers and employ only 1.98 million Saudis. The private sector failed in providing jobs to more than 773,000 unemployed Saudis and more than 1.08 million Saudis searching for a job in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the General Authority for Statistics. We need to benefit from the experience of the job market in advanced countries like in the United States. In the United States, salaries are paid on an hourly basis, and it is different from one state to...
September 09, 2018

Working on hourly basis to reduce unemployment

Confusing start for school year
Okaz newspaperSCHOOL year started Sunday last week and as usual, our schools were not ready for the academic year. One of the most beautiful headlines I read in Okaz newspapers was ‘A surprising school day’.I spent 26 years in the field of education and I collected enough experience that is related to both the technical and field education life.When I read in the newspaper that the first day of school was confusing and witnessed many problems, I was not surprised. During my 26 years professional life in the education sector, the first day always witnessed problems. If the first day was confusing, then so are the remaining of the days.If the newspaper and other media means wanted to alert officials about this confusing start, I will tell them that any news about the problems of the...
September 09, 2018

Confusing start for school year

Nazaha's shocking study
Al-Jazirah newspaperTHE institutional communication is still suffering from weakness both in the government and the private sector though some gradual improvement has been noticed in the latter. The government institutional communication, however, regretfully still remains to be weak and feeble.This is not a personal opinion but the result of numerous studies conducted by specialized parties which are concerned with the development of the performance of the employees regardless of the sector they belong to.The latest of these studies was conducted by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) which revealed that about 69 percent of the government employees did not have a look at the code of conduct or the ethics of the public positions.This is a high ratio and a serious indication...
September 06, 2018

Nazaha's shocking study

Blood money a business for some people
Al-Jazirah newspaperSOCIAL media websites have been bombarded with appeals to help raise millions of Saudi riyals which will be used as a blood money paid to the victim’s family. This does not reflect the true message and purpose of the Shariah regarding blood money. Blood money has become a business for some people who immensely benefit from it.The blood money demanded by a victim’s family recently reached 55 million riyals, which is really shocking. It is a huge amount and there is no way a murderer’s family could raise this. It is like blackmailing for some. Some people have turned blood money into something like public auctions. Such thing is unacceptable in our Muslim society.I hope the government will step in and put an end to it. When it comes to blood money, we should follow...
September 06, 2018

Blood money a business for some people

Fake PhDs
Okaz newspaperMANY people joined an online campaign to expose those who received or bought their PhD degrees illegally. Many names were exposed in different fields, with high positions, running big operations, making big decisions and receiving a lot of job benefits, all from their fake documents.There are many people with fake PhDs in key positions and controlling the fate of people who work under them. These fake certificates paved the way for these fake people to be in high positions, and to make matters worst, if they were the ones in a CEO positions.Many people dedicated their time and efforts to expose these people on social media through active hashtags. Many participated in this campaign and all those participated have something say against it. This activity died out recently, as...
September 05, 2018

Fake PhDs

Medical treatment for needy expats
Al-Madina newspaperAN Arab expat friend of mine, who is legally working in a modest job in the private sector, told me a painful story he encountered at a government hospital. His wife got sick and he went to the closest government hospital for treatment. He was shocked that the fee to open a medical file for expats at the government hospital now cost SR1,000 instead of SR100.He had no choice but to take his wife back home in a hope that the sickness will cure itself and waiting to collect enough money for few days to take his wife to a private clinic, which is cheaper than the cost of opening a medical file at that government hospital.The story of this expat friend, and many others like him, is a humanitarian story and deserve to be reviewed closely. Expats are not alike. There are those...
September 05, 2018

Medical treatment for needy expats

Do not carry large amount when traveling abroad
Riyadh newspaperMOST of the countries ask from travelers to declare cash in their possession when they enter the country. Other countries do not ask tourists to declare the amount in their possession and just approve if they check the box in the ‘entry application’ that they do not carry more than $10,000.That is why most tourists, including myself, declare that we do not have large amount of cash, even if we are carrying it. During my last visit to Panama coming from Los Angeles with my son Hossam, I checked the box in the ‘entry application’ that I carry more than $10,000. The custom official was surprised at my confession of carrying more than $10,000 and asked me if I confess that I carry more than $10,000. I told her yes and then she called a security official who was standing...
September 04, 2018

Do not carry large amount when traveling abroad

The Saudi cyber army
Okaz newspaperFABRICATED media is no longer a permissible phenomenon within the Saudi society and its people. There is now a social media army of Saudis with high awareness who dedicate their time to refute rumors and post the original videos negating some viral and fabricated ones. The last one of these videos was of the security officer who was eulogizing Almighty Allah through a speaker phone. Another fabricated video went viral where a different soundtrack of a man spewing offensive comments against the pilgrims was merged into the video to make it seem like the security officer was the one saying these comments.Such fabrications used to be spread around through social media and WhatsApp but Saudi social media users have become more aware and have refrained from spreading unfounded...
September 03, 2018

The Saudi cyber army

Reading habit on the decline
Riyadh newspaperIN February of last year, I wrote an article titled, ‘I do not read’, wherein I talked about the rate of people reading is on the decline because of the vast changes in our daily life habits. We are living in virtual reality more and sinking deep in social network.In that article I talked about impression and shared some initial numbers, despite the fact that deep inside I believed that people are not reading anymore. Either way we need analyses and studies that either prove or deny this, and this what was done by this recent American study.A recent study in psychology says, “one out of three American teenagers did not read a book in their free time in one year.” I believe that in this adolescence stage where concepts, convictions and traditions are formed and have...
September 03, 2018

Reading habit on the decline

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