16/12/2013
Schools are suffering from financial losses as a result of the waste in investment
Hagbani: 75 per cent of private schools are small and the future is moving towards large entities
Chairman of the National Committee for private education, Council of Saudi Chambers, Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Saad alhqbanei said that several challenges facing the private education sector in the Kingdom are associated with different actors, the challenges in achieving profits and the difficulty of ensuring the educational and administrative staff salaries and the inability to work real budgets represent gains and losses. Alhqbanei said during a lecture held by the Chamber on Sunday 15 December 2013, in Dammam headquartered moderated by the President of the National Education Commission to the Chamber Khaled algoerh and the presence of the members of the Committee, the business private schools have their learning stage losses by noting that some schools profit and without paying attention to losses that are the result of wastage in the education and investment assets. Alhqbanei during lecture on forms of wastage in the education sector and a waste of education that reflects the loss of educational practices in the value , ethical aspects and sentimental, which aims to achieve both its student vocabulary study or student activities outside the classroom, and some suffer from educational wastage which reflects losses on the teaching practices of teachers and learning for students, the curriculum and classroom processes and explain the process of waste management Alhqbanei means wastage of administrative management practices within School for subsidiary missions at the expense of College gear, and financial waste is waste of educational practices and administrative and financial lead to poor efficiency in achieving profit returns should come up with a uniform model illustrates the wastage and profitable in the education sector.
Alhqbanei said that 75 of the private schools are small schools, pointing to a study by the Commission confirmed that mergers and large entities represent the future for the sector, saying that several objectives sought to be achieved of sector mergers come: achieving local and international investments and competitive environments and global services and school buildings and facilities and the diversity in curriculum and development in quality performance and lower fees in addition to higher salaries, more benefits and better guarantees. Alhqbanei said that the study showed that the motivations behind mergers in the private education sector to benefit from economies of scale lead to lower cost and marketing and distribution corporate profits more than on its own to reduce administrative and operational costs, marketing and economics combined in some installations and upgrading competitive in major economies and the ability to adopt modern technology and management strategies to increase resilience in the face of challenges, especially after the Kingdom's accession to the free trade organization aimed at trade liberalization and reduce the degree of risk integration reduces unexpected fluctuations in profitability and achieve administrative and operational efficiency and productivity.
The study showed that the number of students in the sector b 576 thousand schools 3583 teachers 51515 said that teacher from 20 to 35 and the parameters of 82 to 98, adding that those percentages put the saudization on the types of sources of funding for the sector study indicated that 95 self-financing and government loans and commercial loans and the types of entities to private schools study confirmed that 73 individual plant, limited liability company, closed joint stock company, 3.1 and 3.1 Unlimited partnership company, 1.8, and 0.4 of a foreign company, and 73 rented premises, 27 buildings owned.
And solutions to protect schools from wasteful investment, said alhqbanei that the study recommended that a legal Accounting Office commissioned a study sample of school budgets for four years to determine more precise criteria for operational expenses and commissioned a consultancy to study a sample of private schools for four years to determine more precise criteria for measuring waste education and management towards rehabilitation and educational studies offices are monitoring field quarterly to determine the level of deviations from standards to raise the official school publication. A culture of achievement and profitability of all school personnel in the light of specific criteria to assist in achieving the goals and effectiveness and expand studies on forms of waste in community schools and exchanged between investors.
In conclusion, the Chairman of the Committee on private education honored by Chamber Khaled algoerh, Chairman of the National Committee of education, Council of Saudi Chambers, Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Saad alhqbanei with Memorial shield.
