Saudi Arabia creates a new central office to design all school lessons
What happened
Saudi Arabia just created a new National Curriculum Center. This center will now manage how all school lessons are designed, implemented, and improved across the country.
Why it matters
Saudi Arabia is building a new central body to control what students learn. This means a single national vision for school lessons, from design to how they are taught. It also means a single point of failure for the entire system.
The signal
Watch for the first new curriculum standards or textbooks released by this center, and how quickly they are adopted nationwide.