RIYADH: The Ministry of Higher Education's National Center for Assessment is set to begin testing aspiring members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) to ensure they have at least the “minimal required standards for the job”. Al-Hayat Arabic daily quoted the head of the National Center, Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Al-Mishari Aal Saud, as saying that the tests would begin “soon” following the reaching of an agreement with the Hai'a Presidency to evaluate the “skills, personal aspects and areas of knowledge required for persons wishing to work in the Hai'a”. “The tests drawn up by the center will be carried out with the cooperation of Hai'a officials and other specialists in aspects of Shariah,” Prince Faisal told Al
