Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
On Monday, 8/4/1442 AH, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the pledge of allegiance to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, may Allah protect him, the university organized a virtual scientific seminar on the most prominent achievements made during the reign of King Salman and his personal and leadership features since he assumed the reins of government in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as part of the activities offered by the university on this occasion, under the patronage of His Excellency Prof. Dr. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, President of the University.
The seminar, which was moderated by Mr. Fahad bin Nomeh, General Supervisor of the General Department of Media and Communication, reviewed several themes about the achievements made over the past six years at the internal and external levels, especially the attention paid to the education sector and increased support for educational institutions, in addition to the firmness and speed in managing crises, especially the novel coronavirus crisis, as well as his care for Saudi history and the preservation of heritage and historical documents.
The first axis dealt with discussing the most important achievements in the education sector during the reign of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, where Dr. Khalid bin Muhammad Al-Humaidi, Dean of the College of Education, spoke about the great role played by King Salman in serving education in the Kingdom even before he assumed the reins of the Kingdom, pointing to the major transformations that brought about a radical change in the Kingdom's education system, which was evident in the complete transformation of distance education during the coronavirus pandemic in a record time. In record time, this transformation is also clearly shown in kindergarten and early childhood programs to increase the percentage of children enrolled in these programs from 17% to more than 21%, and the launch of the virtual kindergarten, as well as strengthening its interest in special groups and university education, and the structure of universities, where 10 Saudi universities have strengthened their position among the world universities, noting that the Kingdom spends more than 193 billion annually on the education sector, which reflects the great interest in it.
During his speech, Al-Humaidi reviewed the most important projects that were launched in the field of raising the quality of education and curricula during this auspicious era, most notably the project to adopt national standards for public education curricula, which amounted to 36 standards by the Education and Training Evaluation Authority, and 450 specialists and experts participated in developing them, as well as the project to activate the use of technology and link it to textbooks before the Corona pandemic came, which contributed to the speed of dealing with the crisis as soon as it occurred, noting the renewal of school curricula and the integration and introduction of some courses in line with identity, belonging and national spirit and the development of moderation and aggression
While the second axis dealt with the topic "Managing the Corona crisis under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques", presented by Dr. Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Nafisa, Dean of the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, during which he addressed all the preventive and precautionary measures taken by the Kingdom since the beginning of this epidemic in China and even before its outbreak in other countries, as higher committees were formed to manage this crisis and its follow-up, and were proactive in taking all measures that ensured the preservation of everyone's health, such as completely closing all land and sea ports, suspending the Umrah rite, imposing curfews, suspending studies, suspending prayer in mosques, closing markets and other procedures to ensure the preservation of everyone's health.
He pointed out that the Kingdom was keen to return Saudis from all countries of the world in an organized manner, and spoke in full transparency about all developments of the pandemic, and the government pumped additional funds to the health sector to help it overcome the crisis, which contributed to the steadfastness of the health sector in the face of this pandemic, which caused the collapse of the health sectors in many countries of the developed world, in addition to the humanitarian treatment during the crisis, as King Salman announced that the countries would provide free treatment for all citizens, residents and even violators, which contributed to limiting the spread of this pandemic thanks to God, and also indicated support for the economy, scientific research and support for a number of poets.
For her part, Dr. Fatima bin Muhammad Al-Furaihi, Professor of Modern History at the university, presented the third and final axis of the symposium, which dealt with "King Salman's care for Saudi history." She reviewed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' early interest in history since his youth through his love of reading and books and his large library, which is the largest private library for the leader of a country that includes more than 17 thousand titles and 60 thousand volumes in various fields of life, of which history has a large share, pointing out that the follower of history realizes the size and position of King Salman in tracking events and historical method and studies of the Saudi state and his great role in this field.
Al-Furaihi explained that the projects related to history included the preservation of historical documents and manuscripts since his presidency of the Board of Directors of the King Abdulaziz House, which turned it into a specialized research center that had a prominent role in preserving the Kingdom's history with more than 5,000 manuscripts and documents, and the House issued more than 300 publications in the field of preserving the history of the Kingdom, as well as the King Salman Annual Award for the Study and Research of Arabian Peninsula History, which is one of the largest awards in this field, in addition to the King Salman Chairs for History Studies in several Saudi universities to support historical research.
Al-Furaihi pointed to King Salman's keenness and interest during his tenure as Emir of Riyadh in the issues of heritage and historical monuments that witnessed the establishment of the Saudi state, as well as care for the historical city of Diriyah, as well as the history of Mecca and Medina, through his care and interest in all historical documents and sites and his encouragement of research in this field, noting that King Salman is a man of history par excellence due to his contributions in this field.
At the conclusion of the symposium, the floor was opened for a number of questions related to the three themes of the symposium by the speakers.
