​H.E. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Ameri, Rector of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, has signed recently a Memorandum of Understanding "MoU" with Eng. Fahd Al-Hammad, CEO of Tatweer Building Company "TBC", a limited liability government-owned corporation, specialized to run, manage, and tender the Ministry of Education (MoE) projects of school buildings, educational facilities and administration buildings.

The signed MoU with TBC is aiming to the fruitful cooperation and exchange of experiences between ​Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and Tatweer Building Company to establish, build and run facilities to provide the early education and serve other educational goals within the university campus in Riyadh city and the university branches in different regions of the Kingdom.

Commending the signature step with TBC, H.E. the University Rector has reaffirmed the keenness of the university to activate MoUs with all governmental and private institutions so as all Saudi people could benefit from its deliverables. The expansion of early childhood facilities, and stimulation of enrolment rates at kindergartens through the development of infrastructure and the provision of the necessary educational environment requirements with a high-quality rate, are all considerations have become the top priorities for education in Saudi Arabian Kingdom, noted he.

In a similar vein, Dr. Al-Ameri has described the signature of MoU with TBC as an important and practical step in line with the university's endeavours to strengthen MoE's instructions to extensively and intensively take care of this age group. "The educational process at kindergarten stage that would develop the child mentally, emotionally, morally and socially, taking into account the individual differences from one child to another. And as this educational stage is so important and sensitive and being the basis on which the child's personality and his mental and psychological abilities are grown, it is necessary to pay more attention to the specifications of the kindergarten building, in terms of location, number of rooms, facilities, dimensions of space, and other details and considerations", added Dr. Al-Ameri.

From his side, Eng. Al-Hammad, CEO of TBC, has pointed out that, it is the responsibility of his administration since forth to drafting university projects' RFPs with commitment to delivery schedules, provide advice, support and assistance necessary for the university. As well as providing all projects' relevant information, inform the university about any obstacles in regard with the projects, exchange of related information and documents, and provide feedback and learned lessons to the university.

In furtherance, Eng. Al-Hammad has revealed that, TBC is in the process of signing similar MoUs with Saudi universities counterparts in regard of future cooperation in the areas of designing and building school buildings, provide consultations, and administrative and educational equipment, and building and run of kindergartens.