The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Saudi government is demanding performance on the part of the scholarship students it’s sending abroad. It has recalled 512 students for lack of academic performance and poor attendance. Five hundred-some out of 42 thousand isn’t a terribly high percentage, which suggests that most of the students are taking their obligations seriously. The article does not provide a breakdown between male and female students being recalled. I think that would be an interesting statistic.

Saudi Arabia Brings Home 512 International Students
Because of Poor Performance

The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education has recalled 512 students studying at universities overseas and expelled them from the country’s international-scholarship program because of weak performance and poor attendance records, according to a report on the Saudi Gazette Web site.

Over the past four years, the ministry has paid for 42,000 Saudi students to be educated abroad as part of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program, which is designed to allow Saudi students to attend specialized programs not offered by the country’s higher-education system, especially in fields for which there is great demand in the Saudi labor market.
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