His Royal Highness Prince Dr. Faisal bin Meshal bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Qassim Region, expressed his pride in the achievement achieved by the university yesterday, Monday, 15/4/1442 AH, in obtaining licenses to offer e-learning programs "remotely" from the National Center for e-Learning, considering it a great achievement at the national level and a qualitative leap that opens the way for all students in the Kingdom to enroll in these programs remotely, regardless of their location within the Kingdom.

His Highness praised the experience that the country went through during the sudden Corona pandemic, which made the country turn to distance education, which had some positive results in the field of e-learning and distance education, stressing that the granting of licenses by the National Center for E-Learning to a number of universities, including our university, Qassim University in the region, is a proof of confidence in these universities.

His Highness said: "I congratulate Qassim University on this civilizational and scientific achievement and its distinguished administration, led by His Excellency Prof. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, President of the University, who exerts great and distinguished efforts to develop the university, perform its mission, and fulfill its roles to the fullest, as well as the university's vice presidents and deans of colleges in various governorates.

His Highness added: He believes that such a qualitative leap will enable the university to direct its programs to all parts of the Kingdom and not only in the Qassim region only, and will be available to both sexes, and this undoubtedly reflects our country's interest in the directives of the wise leadership, to turn to distance education, and make it available to all and not in a specific region, but to consecrate the one nation, and when you see, praise be to God, Qassim University giving such specializations, and distributing other specializations to other universities, this gives us an indication that consecrating the nation by giving specializations to universities to spread such sciences, and giving distance education a greater role in the field of development.

He added: I am proud and honored that Qassim University, in addition to its sister universities, is given this role, as they are all our universities and universities of this country, and we are all under the umbrella of this nation under the leadership of our wise government, congratulating the students and faculty members at Qassim University and other universities on this achievement, asking God Almighty to keep us safe and secure, and to grant all colleagues success to achieve more achievements and progress for our beloved country.

The university obtained these licenses from the National Center for E-Learning for 4 programs according to the Center's controls and standards that were recently approved and implemented: Diploma in Digital Marketing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Accounting, and Sales, which makes these programs offered by the university available to any male or female student to enroll in them "remotely" from all regions of the Kingdom without the need to attend the university.

The service of providing licenses and setting controls and standards for e-learning and training in the Kingdom comes within the Center's efforts to control the quality of e-learning in the Kingdom, as stipulated in the organization of the Center issued by a decision of the Council of Ministers, as the Center has implemented many steps recently to raise the quality of e-learning and control its practices, especially with the accelerated global trend towards this type of education, which has become a necessity and strategic choice for the future after the Corona pandemic, which put it at the forefront of priorities for many countries of the world.