Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, received at his palace here today female deans of faculties and members of teaching staff of Umm Al-Qura University. During the audience, the Crown Prince commended the efforts of the University in serving the march of higher education in the Kingdom along with other Saudi universities that have contributed to preparing national cadres in various scientific and cultural specializations. The Crown Prince added that the road to modernization and development in the Kingdom has been in progress in all areas including education since the Kingdom's foundation by late King Abdulaziz, noting that the presence of tens of boys and girls universities, colleges and institutes in various regions of the Kingdom is an evidence of this comprehensive progress including education, economy, management and administration and human development in addition to modernization of the state's systems and upgrading of the efficiency of the governmental bodies. --More