He explained that the topics regulated by the system include classifying private educational institutions according to specific categories based on standards and indicators that measure their performance level and the quality of their educational outcomes, determining the conditions and procedures for classification and the mechanism for announcing its results and issuing its certificates, in addition to forming the Private Educational Institutions Classification Committee and technical committees, and regulating all matters related to them.
He indicated that the system also regulates the obligations of private educational institutions regarding evaluation and classification procedures, publishing classification results, and collecting service fees related to evaluation and classification procedures.
He pointed out that the desired goals of the system are to create a national framework for classifying private educational institutions according to approved standards and indicators, enable the Ministry to monitor their performance and measure their performance level and the quality of their educational outcomes, incentivize them to improve their performance and upgrade the quality of their outcomes, raise the level of competitiveness among them, and enhance transparency by making classification results available to students and parents or their legal representatives.
He noted that the proposed system is considered new legislation, as there is no current legislation regulating its subject, nor is there any existing legislation governing it whose provisions are no longer sufficient to achieve the desired goals, indicating that the legal basis for its issuance is based on Paragraph (J) of Article (26) of the Education and Human Resources Development Law No. (13) of 2026.
He pointed out that the proposed system took into account the principle of the hierarchy of legal norms, and that there are no international agreements or treaties in force in the Kingdom related to its subject, or approved international obligations that required its submission, nor are there comparative legislations applied in other countries that address the same subject, according to the data contained in the legislative data memorandum.
He explained that the system does not include exceptions, does not affect existing legal situations or statuses, and does not include transitional or savings provisions, provided that it shall come into effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Regarding the effects resulting from the application of the system, he indicated that it has financial implications for private educational institutions represented by the collection of service fees for their evaluation and classification procedures, noting that private educational institutions are the entities that could be affected by it upon its issuance.
He added that the procedures necessary to complete the issuance of the system include preparing instructions for the standards, indicators, and weightings for classifying private educational institutions, instructions for the procedures for evaluating and classifying private educational institutions, and instructions for collecting service fees for the procedures for evaluating and classifying private educational institutions, while the system does not require the cancellation or amendment of existing instructions, according to the memorandum.
He indicated that the preparation of the system underwent a study of the proposed legislation by the relevant departments and organizational units in the Ministry, and was then presented to the Planning Committee at the Ministry.
