The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Education Dr. Hamad bin Muhammad Al Al-Sheikh has met here with the Executive Vice President of the Education Sector at Microsoft in the United Kingdom, Rick Herrmann.
The meeting was held on the sideline of Dr. Hamad Al Al-Sheikh’s participation in the International Education Forum 2022, which is currently being held in London, United Kingdom, with the participation of a large number of ministers of education from countries around the world.
The Saudi Minister of Education and Herrmann discussed aspects of cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Microsoft, especially in the field of educational software, transferring knowledge and enabling future generations to achieve more innovation and technical knowledge, as well as digital educational transformation, and supporting students and educational cadres in the stages of public and university education to learn programming, which contributes to keeping pace with the global technological boom and acceleration in this field, in accordance with the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
The meeting also touched upon supporting work to achieve the best technical services, and providing better integration options to integrate services within the platforms of the Ministry of Education, especially “My School” platform, as well as access to data and the ability to analyze it.
Source: Saudi Press Agency