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- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Background
- 1 What Is Saudi? Identity, Religiosity and Generational Divides
- 2 The Saudi ‘Social Contract’ Under Strain: Employment, Housing and Healthcare
- 3 The New Media Revolution, Public Opinion and the Relationship between the Governing and the Governed
- 4 Education, Societal Transformation and Globalization
- 5 Masculinity, Gender Relations and Marriage
- 6 Distrust, Fault Lines and Recreation
- 7 Saudi Vision 2030 and National Development
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Education, Societal Transformation and Globalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2019
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Background
- 1 What Is Saudi? Identity, Religiosity and Generational Divides
- 2 The Saudi ‘Social Contract’ Under Strain: Employment, Housing and Healthcare
- 3 The New Media Revolution, Public Opinion and the Relationship between the Governing and the Governed
- 4 Education, Societal Transformation and Globalization
- 5 Masculinity, Gender Relations and Marriage
- 6 Distrust, Fault Lines and Recreation
- 7 Saudi Vision 2030 and National Development
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Saudi government is educating its young population, with the vast majority attending higher educational institutions in the Kingdom and the brightest students being sent to study overseas, sponsored by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques’ Overseas Scholarship Programme – better known in the West as the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP). In fact, it was the leaders of the Kingdom’s universities, rectors and senior supporting personnel, who convinced the Saudi government to transform the Kingdom into a knowledge-based economy and, by extension, society, by utilizing its considerable resources to better educate and build its human capital. This chapter discusses young men’s opinions of the education system and the degree to which it prepares them for tertiary education and employment. The chapter also looks at the extent of societal transformation in Saudi Arabia, as well as the impact of globalization on Saudi society.
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- Being Young, Male and SaudiIdentity and Politics in a Globalized Kingdom, pp. 152 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019