More than 1,000 Saudi scholarship students graduate from Canada

Minister of Higher Education Khaled Al-Anqari sponsored the graduation ceremony of 1,043 male and female scholarship students under the fourth graduating class of the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program in Ottawa, Canada.
The ceremony was attended by Osama Al-Sanusi, undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nayef Al-Sudairi, Saudi ambassador to Canada; and senior officials. Al-Sudairi applauded the vision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in boosting education.
Al-Anqari said that during its first year, the scholarship program sent 5,000 scholarship students to America and that the program now has more than 150,000 students in various disciplines in over 30 countries. The scholarship program has seen 55,000 students graduate since its inception.
Al-Anqari said the scholarship program emphasizes the Kingdom’s initiatives for establishing principles of constructive dialogue between cultures and civilizations.