TAIF: Taif University is to offer from next year e-learning courses as the ministries of Education and Higher Education and the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation seek to promote distance learning as a means of raising university admission numbers and tackling unemployment. King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah was the first Saudi university to set up a Deanship for Distance Learning, which traditionally involved correspondence courses but has developed with technology into various forms of online and electronic learning, allowing the student to study according to a flexible schedule and balance professional and family obligations.
