His Excellency, The Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Khalid Al Anqari

Duties :

The Minister of Higher Education is related to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Prime Minister. He is the first Executive Responsible Officer for the works of the Ministry. On this basis, he takes charge of all the tasks of the Ministry mentioned above in the previous page according to the system of Higher Education and Universities Council rules and general regulations in the country.

From his duties are the following :

• The Minister of Higher Education presides over the council of each university. He is responsible for monitoring the execution of the educational policy of the country in the field of university education. Also, he monitors the application of the system of the Higher Education and Universities Council and its lists existed. He is responsible for all universities and each university subjects to his supervision
• He refers the issues that should be referred to the University Council to study them
• He can ask inserting any issue in the University Council agenda or he can postpone it before the meeting of the Council
• He suggests recruiting the managers of the Universities or releasing them from their positions
• Receiving the annual report of each University its Manager presents concerning its affairs, activities and he raises it to the Higher Education Council
• Giving consent or disagreement concerning nominations presented to him by the University Manager or releasing the Universities Deputies in order to decide it from the Higher Education Council
• He gives his consent to the recruitment of the Colleges and Institutes Deans and Supporting Deans from the Saudi Teaching Staff according to the nomination of the Universities Managers
• Assigning the concerned officers in the Ministry or Universities to conduct some studies related to the Higher Education affairs in general or some issues that are related to one sector of its sectors or one university
• He assigns three experienced officers as members in the University Council for three years
• Coordination with the Universities and the Concerned Bodies in preparing the executive lists to the system of Higher Education and Universities Council
• Supervising execution of the Arabian Magazine and King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives , according to the mentioned tasks and specializations in its regulations.