Assessment of Academic Performance: A Shared Experience From Jazan Faculty of Medicine, Saudi Arabia and a Proposal for Systematic Monitoring and Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Gosadi ◽  
Anwar Makeen ◽  
Vikrant Panjwani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Utilization Data ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government

Abstract ObjectivesIn 2016, the government of Saudi Arabia announced its ambitious transformation vision, Saudi Arabia Vision 2030, where a new Universities System was established. The new system aims to reduce bureaucracy in the academic environment and enable objective measurement of performance via the utilization of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).One of the challenges is related to difficulties in assessing the academic performance of faculty members, especially among medical school. The responsibilities of teaching staff working at medical schools in Saudi Arabia can be diverse and difficult to measure and varying between teaching, research, clinical, and administrative activities. ResultsIn this report, we share our experience in Jazan University Faculty of Medicine (FoM) to propose a low-cost system to monitor and evaluate the academic performance. This report provides a comprehensive description of data acquisition methods, data follow, data management, and data display. The proposed system aims to evaluate the overall academic activities through the quantification of teaching, research, administrative, clinical and professional development and community service activities to enable the relevant stakeholders to monitor KPIs achievement, ensure appropriate resources utilization, data-driven decision making and planning. Additionally, the proposed system is suitable for use in relatively new academic institutions with limited resources.

Role of foreign direct investment – As a strategic move towards growth, economic integration and development

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092199659
Author(s):  
Rima H BinSaeed
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
International Investors ◽  
The Government

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with its developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure has shown a major progress in business opportunities for overseas investors. Saudi Arabia’s education sector is one of the most attractive investment opportunities for the foreign investors Earlier in 2019, 9 new foreign education enterprises were granted investor licenses, amounting to a total of $141mn of investment deals. The Saudi government introduced Saudi Vision 2030, an aspiring development plan that foresees vital prospects for foreign investors in the regions of education, housing, health and energy, amongst others. In 2016, Saudi Arabia permitted the procurement of 100% of assets by foreign investors in retail and wholesale trade. A privatisation program has also been introduced. The government also attempts to attract FDI in the regions of renewable energy and entertainment. A foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a vital role in local and international economy. Several opportunities and ventures are encouraged by Saudi Arabia to improve the standard of business and economical environments. To accomplish the finances for the projects SAGIA, the lawful authority is there to smooth the progress of investments, which encourages Saudi FDI prospective to grow simultaneously. FDI has a greater scope for diverse businesses and investing in to underdeveloped industrial sectors. FDI plays an important role in boosting the economy of Saudi Arabia by managing international investors who shares the huge portion of 34% in General GDP (Gross domestic product) of Saudi Arabia. This paper aims to review the literature to shed light on the steps taken by the government to increase FDI in the country and what are the current trends that are helping to fulfil VISION 2030.

scholarly journals Adopting and Implementing a Government Cloud in Saudi Arabia, an Integral Part of Vision 2030

10.29007/848q ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed O. Alannsary ◽  
Yasser M. Hausawi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Software As A Service ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cloud Users

Cloud computing is a relatively mature and robust technology that has promised its users with several proven advantages, such as cost reduction, immediate scalability, and resource sharing. The Cloud is built based on providing resources as services, such as providing Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service. Such approach enables Cloud users to access these services based on their demand. In the government sector of Saudi Arabia, adoption and utilization of the Cloud is minimal. Despite being adopted officially, the Cloud has not been yet implemented properly. In our work we introduce how the government sector in Saudi Arabia can adopt and implement a Cloud Solution through utilizing its services and while considering issues related to its security.

scholarly journals Addressing the Burden of Non-communicable Diseases: Saudi Arabia’s Challenges in Achieving Vision 2030

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Fahad Albejaidi ◽  
Kesavan Sreekantan Nair
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Control

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose critical challenges in achieving Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. This paper provides an overview of NCDs in Saudi Arabia and identifies various critical issues and challenges in reducing the burden of NCDs. All relevant data for this paper was extracted from existing published literature in various database including Medline, Scopus, ScienceDirect and PubMed. Google Scholar search engine was used to identify papers and reports on relevant literature published after the year 2000. NCDs account for about 73% of all deaths in Saudi Arabia. Deaths due to cardiovascular diseases account for 37% of all deaths, cancers 10%, diabetes mellitus 3% and other NCDs cause 20% of all deaths. Economic costs of NCDs likely to increase with the undesirable life style of youths and increasing share of old population. Further, the shortage of local health workforce, lack of primary health care focus and covid-19 pandemic are likely to affect the government efforts to prevent and control NCDs. Ministry of Health (MOH) needs to play a catalyst role in raising awareness of population through multi-sectoral linkages and policies to reduce the exposure to NCD risk factors. There is a need to review all relevant policy documents to ensure consistency of these policies with prevention and control measures of NCDs.

Zakat and taxes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-89
Author(s):  
Walaa Abazaid
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
National Income ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
The Government

Within the framework of Vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strives to achieve good national income through an effective tax system. This tax system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia encompasses taxes that are inflicted by the government and zakat imposed by Islamic law. The tax and zakat system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is supervised by the General Authority for Zakat and Income and operates under the authority of the Ministry of Finance, but the authorities responsible for looking into tax disputes still confront problems and difficulties during the performance of their work, especially in disputes related to sharia consulting. Since the importance of the tax and zakat fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is great and the relatively high imports it achieves, the aim of this research is to study the structure of the tax and zakat system and the mechanism of work of the bodies responsible for settling tax and zakat dispute by relying on literary reviews of previous researches and official publications allocated for the General Authority for Tax and Zakat, besides the laws correlated to the tax and zakat system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The research concluded that there are a set of weaknesses in the mechanism of work of the authorities and committees who are responsible for deciphering tax and zakat disputes, and a set of proposals have been proposed to improve the performance of these committees.

Nationalisation of Health Workforce in Saudi Arabia’s Public and Private Sectors: A Review of Issues and Challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 097206342110352
Author(s):  
Fahad Albejaidi ◽  
Kesavan Sreekantan Nair
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Strategic Initiatives ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Health Workforce Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
Delivery Of Health Services

Presently, Saudi Arabia depends largely on expatriate health workforce for delivery of health services. This article provides an overview of Saudization policy introduced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and analyses its underlying impact on health workforce in public and private sectors. It also examines key strategic initiatives undertaken by the government for health workforce development and challenges of replacing expatriates in the country as envisaged in the Vision 2030. There are concerns about low participation of females in nursing, mainly due to a poor image attached to the profession, and further exacerbated by religious and cultural factors. There is a strong need to adopt a health workforce development policy that integrates local culture, values and social ties. Government needs to follow a multipronged approach to change the mindset of citizens to take up health care jobs, particularly nursing and pharmacist professions.

scholarly journals King Abdulaziz University Approach to Develop Financial Resources

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi ◽  
Adnan Hamza Mohammad Zahed
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost

AbstractSaudi universities have benefited a lot from the budgets provided by the government to universities in order to encourage education and spread it among the various groups of Saudi society. The public universities in Saudi Arabia, since their establishment, provide education to their students free. Based on the Saudi Vision 2030, and the new Saudi universities by-law 2020, universities can now establish their own endowments and companies, and to get revenues from the cost of the study programs, diplomas, courses, and services provided.

scholarly journals A Robust Measure of Core Inflation in Saudi Arabia: Empirically Investigating the Trimmed Mean and the Median CPI

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Soleman Alsabban ◽  
Bander Alghamdi ◽  
Saud Altamimi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
Trimmed Mean ◽  
New Era ◽  
Core Inflation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Policies

The headline inflation in Saudi Arabia is subject to dramatic changes caused by new policies as the economy is undergoing structural changes since 2016. These changes could mislead policymakers as the underlying inflation may differ from the headline one. Since the announcement of Saudi Vision 2030 in April 2016, the Saudi economy entered a new era where the government has started to reform the economy to reduce its dependence on oil. As a result, many initiatives have been implemented with different impacts on the headline inflation such as imposing new taxes and expat levies and reforming energy prices. This research aims to calculate the core inflation in Saudi Arabia using two different methods: Trimmed Mean, and Median CPI. These two different methods were assessed based on their ability to track trends in the headline inflation over time as measured by the root mean square error and it ability to predict the future headline inflation.

scholarly journals Challenges and Strategies in Tackling the Issues of Structural Unemployment in Saudi Arabia: a Vision 2030

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 864-868
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Structural Unemployment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Work

The aim of this paper is to analyze and review the current unemployment crisis in Saudi Arabia and alternative schemes that might be designed to reduce structural unemployment in Saudi Arabia. Localization of the workforce is one of the major initiatives taken by the Saudi government to reduce the unemployment of their local work force. The current study comprehensively reviewed the effectiveness of the measure called by the Saudi regime. The data and information are collected using secondary data which are government reports, website, as well as past research. Literature indicated that the incorporation of the workforce initiatives has significantly reduced the unemployment of the Saudi work force. Yet the trouble still exists, and Saudi government and policy makers still required developing more efficient strategies to cope with the situation. The Kingdom has never hit 100 percent employment due to various factors including the nature of the labour market. It was also suggested that the continuous issue for this structural unemployment is because there are still large number of expatriates in many organizations in the Saudi even after the government has implemented the Saudization program.

scholarly journals Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development: State Capacity to Revitalize the Healthcare System in Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Redwan Rahman ◽  
Ameerah Qattan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government

Abstract Vision 2030 is seen as a contributing factor to diversifying the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s economy and stimulating numerous changes in its social sectors, including in the health sector. Sustainable Development (SD)2030 is a global consensual agreement among nation states to build a sustainable, desirable and progressively interrelated world. Achieving the Sustainable Development 2030 is seen as a main component of development for health. This article explores the state capacity and the role of Vision2030 and Sustainable Development 2030 in the revitalizing the healthcare system in Saudi Arabia. Systematic review and thematic data analysis technique are used as method of this study. The Saudi government highlighted and emphasized Vision 2030 to improve population health and the world body emphasized that Sustainable Development 2030 will contribute to “healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 encourages the state to play a renewed role in development in the light of the UN’s declaration of the ‘right to development’. In pursuing development, the state must have necessary institutional environment in sustaining capacity, resources and interactions among groups for realizing constructive roles and functions in maintaining state affairs. The government needs to develop a sustainable healthcare system by adding to health human resources, building public-private partnership, and efficient use of resources through stewardship, good governance, accountability, and transparency.

scholarly journals National Responses and Economic Strategies to Address COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Nurunnabi ◽  
Hisham Mohammed Alhawal ◽  
Reema Yousef Abdulla Al Bassam
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
A Value ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to explore national responses and strategies to address the challenges to Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study utilized various government documents, newspapers and local and international reports. This research finds that the Saudi government of thoroughly evaluated the circumstances and has announced a set of urgent moves amounting to 142 initiatives targeting individuals, private sector enterprises and investors, with a value exceeding SR 214 billion. The government has made significant efforts to keep employment and markets stable. This is one of the very first studies of the Saudi government’s response to the impact of COVID-19 on the private sector and the overall economy. The Kingdom seeks to support the private sector in order to achieve the goals that Saudi Arabia seeks in its economic transformation and in line with its Vision 2030.

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