A meeting of senior education officials in Makkah on Monday has seen its discussion of the recruitment of school guards gain greater urgency following the murder of a teacher on Tuesday at a school in the same city. Sources said that the Ministry of Education had asked the Ministry of Finance to approve the budgeting for 30,847 security guard positions or allocate finances to hire a private security firm as an alternative. The sources said they expected an allocation of up to SR369 million to be granted if the positions were not approved. The shooting of Fayez Al-Shanbari at the Makkah school where he taught has increased safety environment concerns barely 24 hours after the meeting of education officials. Schools in the region have been subject to a variety of other incidents in recent times, including a number of break
