A plan to improve teaching at King Saud University includes a requirement that lecturers earn professional licenses, Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman, President of King Saud University told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. No lecturer will enter the lecture rooms or halls there unless he has earned the license, he said while answering a question by Okaz/Saudi Gazette after launching the deliberations of the First Annual Forum for Teaching in Universities. “Obtaining a professional license for teaching in the university requires the lecturer or professor to have received a number of training hours, which the Deanship for Skills Development is striving to carry out, in cooperation with King's College in Britain,” Dr. Al-Othman said. “However, no professor or lecturer has been awarded this certificate.” Dr. Al-Othman stressed the need to convert members of the teaching staff from being people who convey information traditionally to being people who develop skills. One cannot prepare a distinctive generation without distinctive professors, he said. He pointed out that King Saud University could be the only institution that requires lecturers and professors to earn this certificate. The institution has launched a number of initiatives, most prominent of which is the implementation of the orientation year, Dr. Al
