Ministry of Education: The first appearance of a system of education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the creation of knowledge through the Directorate in 1344 and served as its lay the foundation stone of the education system for boys.
In 1346 his decision to form the first board of knowledge and purpose of the issued put an educational system that oversees education in the Hijaz region and with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Permissions Knowledge Directorate widened no longer function is limited to the supervision of the education in the Hijaz but included overseeing all education affairs in the whole kingdom, and it includes (323) School where she began four schools.
In 1371 AH has been created and the Ministry of Education in the reign of King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and was an extension and development of the Directorate of Education, has been assigned to the planning and supervision of public education for boys in three stages (primary - intermediate - secondary), and the King Fahd is the first minister of her and in 1380 was the establishment of the General Presidency for Girls' Education in the reign of King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (with a budget of 4.400.000) and after (15) elementary School and the Institute of parameters average one, headed by Sheikh Abdulaziz Nasser Al-Rashid, with the development of Education issued a Royal Decree annexation General Presidency for Girls' Education to the Ministry of Education in 1423 was appointed Dr. Khader al-Qurashi as Deputy Minister of Education for the education of girls, and a year later was transferred named the Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Education, and still to this day represented by the Minister of Education, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
And in recognition of the state under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the importance of education in building the human civilizations and the industry has good share of education budget for the year 1432 amounted to -1 433 e is equivalent to 26 ‰ of the budget and estimated at (94,656,037)
This non-limited support will contribute God willing, in achieving the objectives of the Ministry of Education and Education for the advancement of the instruction process to achieve the vision of the leadership of this country.