منطقة الجوف-جامعة الجوف

Introduction

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5 or Global Goal 5) aims to achieve gender equality by ending all forms of discrimination, violence and any harmful practices against women and girls in the public and private spheres. It also calls for the full participation of women and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of political and economic decision-making. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

Gender equality is a fundamental and inviolable human right and women’s and girls’ empowerment is essential to expand economic growth, promote social development and enhance business performance. The full incorporation of women’s capacities into labor forces would add percentage points to most national growth rates – double digits in many cases. Further, investing in women’s empowerment produces the double dividend of benefiting women and children, and is pivotal to the health and social development of families, communities and nations.

The government of Saudi Arabia presents vital efforts of to achieve a cohesive method of equality between the men and women of society in various fields by enhancing their rights, support systems and care programs, thus improving their work environment in all sectors. Here, you will obtain information on women’s rights in accordance with Saudi regulations, justice decisions strengthening women’s rights, women empowerment in education and training, female health, social support, the National Family Safety Program, and empowering women in justice, business and politics.

The law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, derived from Islamic law, adopt the principle of complementary equality between men and women, taking into account the characteristics of both sexes, to achieve ultimate justice. As the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia believes that the integration of the relationship between the sexes is an ideal way to promote and protect human rights and to guarantee the equality between men and women, such as the rights to work, education, health, economic rights and others. Based on the perspective of equality and emphasizing it, the Human Rights Commission has allowed both women and men the right to submit communications according to the requirements via the link.

The laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia guarantee to all citizens the right of free education without any discrimination, and in its belief in the importance of the role of education in achieving sustainable development and the realization of human rights.

Jouf University aligned with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia laws that the educational system is based on equality between men and women in all its aspects, whether it is related to admission and enrolment mechanisms, or with regard to curricula, exams, or what is related to the qualifications of teachers and lecturers, or in Quality of study facilities and equipment. Rather, women have received more attention in this aspect such as positive discrimination, especially with the continued establishment of a number of university cities for girls.

Al-Jouf University Vice Deanship for Female Students Affairs Distinctive work environment, support for women and community service
Based on the Kingdom's Vision 2030, which set among its objectives to raise the percentage of women's participation in the labor market and continue to develop their talents, invest their energies and enable them to obtain appropriate opportunities to contribute to the development of society and the economy, especially that Saudi women constitute more than half of the number of graduates from universities, from this point of view the Vice Rectorate for Female Students' Affairs at Al-Jawf University was established to undertake the distinctive scientific preparation in the humanitarian and scientific fields in order to push forward female cadres with high academic competence capable of Actively contribute to the service of society, in addition to being a fertile environment for creativity and the development of educational and administrative performance, in line with the system of higher values and high principles, as it has shortened many administrative procedures in addition to facilitating students to direct their affairs and address their issues as quickly as possible.

Supporting the wise leadership
The education of Saudi girls receives special attention from our wise government under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and His Highness the Crown Prince Al-Amin, may Allah protect him, and this interest is matched by tireless and continuous work to give back to our dear homeland, and what has been achieved in the march of Saudi women from empowering them and activating their role as a key partner in the development system and assuming senior leadership positions represents a great incentive to continue working and participate effectively in the renaissance of the university and the homeland, and this is related to the social and developmental responsibility placed on them and therefore keen to provide The best educational techniques covering the buildings in the complexes of the three girls' colleges in Sakaka, Qurayyat and Tabarjil.

Community Initiatives.
The Vice Rectorate for Female Student Affairs seeks to enhance its role towards the community through the provision of many programs and initiatives, which aim to consolidate values and principles that are commensurate with the nature of society, increase community awareness and spread a culture supportive of community participation, and the Vice Rectorate has also held several internal community partnerships with some government and private sectors, and held the first awareness forum for women driving under the slogan (Towards a Safe Positive Drive), whose activities continued over the course of a whole week, in which the forum and the accompanying exhibition were received. Many visitors from different segments of the targeted society, where many scientific events were held, the contents of which were co-presented by a group of specialists and specialists in a number of government agencies, and the forum also witnessed the establishment of a number of training courses and awareness workshops that are concerned with the culture of women driving in various directions, which promote the concept of traffic safety and safe driving, and embody the objectives and mission of the forum.

The Vice Deanship is also preparing to hold the second women's conference "Enhancing the Role of Saudi Women in the Development of Society in the Light of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 Vision and Ambition", out of the University's keenness to serve the community and advance progress in various "Saudi women's issues" and to allow researchers and interested women to participate and present their scientific papers in order to open horizons for those fields and give them a wider impetus to empower Saudi women as an active member of national development.

Complexes of girls' colleges.
The Vice Deanship supervises three complexes for girls' colleges, namely the complex of girls' colleges in Sakaka, the complex of girls' colleges in Qurayyat, and the complex of girls' colleges in Tabarjil, and includes the complex of girls' colleges in Sakaka, which was opened on the twenty-ninth of the month of Muharram in 1435 AH, among its sides are all the faculties of girls at the university, and there are classrooms, some of which accommodate 100 students at once, in addition to computer laboratories that are equipped with the best equipment, in addition to scientific laboratories that provide educational services to students of scientific colleges in All levels.

The complex of women's colleges in Sakakah contains 121 classrooms, as well as 113 classrooms equipped with smart broadcasting devices, 33 halls for visual broadcasting, 21 specialized laboratories, 21 computer labs, a laboratory for e-learning and distance learning, 4 meeting rooms, 20 classrooms with a studio system and 4 devices for smart services for female students, and the lobby of the Sakakah Girls Complex is equipped with a number of screens to display student guidance announcements, in addition to automatic pagers, and many other services that contribute to saving time and effort For the student and the employee.

The complex has a library containing thousands of titles in various sciences and knowledge that help students and faculty members to scientific research, learning and knowledge, and the complex also has a satellite broadcasting service to and from the complex to transmit lectures and scientific conferences from anywhere in the world, in addition to the administrative link with the university administration electronically, while the main lobby of the complex is an attractive environment for female students, where its area reaches 5000 meters and the necessary services are available.

The complex of the girls' college in Qurayyat..
As for the complex of girls' colleges in Qurayyat, which was opened on the eighteenth of the month of Rabi I in 1437 AH, it consists of three main buildings, each building consists of two floors, two supporting buildings, a ceremonial theater with a main foyer linking the buildings and its dimensions of 3018 square meters, and the three main buildings consist of 73 classrooms of various capacities, nine laboratories for computers and languages, 18 classrooms with entrance axes, six unloading halls, three rest rooms for external students and three chapels, and the first supporting building consists of A central library, offices for supporting deanships and studios for broadcasting lectures, the second supporting building includes 5 scientific laboratories, 6 computer laboratories and a 579-seat celebration theater equipped with the latest modern technologies and audio and video equipment, where it can be used from inside the complex and can be used from outside the complex with complete independence.

The complex is also equipped with all the educational and administrative furniture, data departments and technical equipment for the transmission of lectures and e-learning with the possibility of receiving lectures remotely from studios in the complex or from boys' colleges in Qurayyat or the headquarters of the university in Sakakah with central air conditioning and safety requirements.

The complex of girls' colleges in Tabarjal
The complex of girls' colleges in Tabarjal, which was opened on the nineteenth spring of the first in 1437 AH, includes the girls' colleges, branches of the supporting deanships, equipped classrooms, computer laboratories, central library, scientific laboratories and other facilities, and the complex is located on a total area of 22,000 square meters and consists of three main buildings of two floors and two supporting buildings all linked to the main lobby.

Each complex also contains a health center that contributes to the service of university students, where there is a medical team consisting of female doctors and nursing technicians and equipped with the necessary devices for ambulatory cases in the complex and was also provided with a pharmacy that includes all the medicines needed by students and the ambulance for ambulance cases.

University Studies Center in Domat Al-Jandal
The Center for University Studies in Doumat Al-Jandal has open divisions to serve the center's female students affiliated to academic departments such as the Department of Arabic Language, the Department of English, the Department of Early Childhood, and the Department of Islamic Studies, in which more than 500 female students study together, and 13 professors and 28 administrative staff work, and some lectures are transferred from the university city via video broadcast.

The Center also provides students and its staff with various courses and workshops provided by specialized faculty members, such as courses in scientific research, preparation for tests, and other key axes, as well as courses held by the Skills Development Center, which are transmitted to the beneficiaries of the Center throughout the year through video broadcasting, and many national events and international days are activated, while the Center witnessed earlier this year a process of preparation that affected various aspects in its facilities, with the aim of providing the finest educational environment for students, The infrastructure has been improved and the library is equipped with computers that provide students with access to international databases in various disciplines.

The committees of the agency
The Vice Rectorate for Female Student Affairs participates in many permanent committees regarding the issues of female students, and includes agencies for colleges and supporting deanships that exercise their role in harmony with all programs and events of the university scientific, student and community service.

Partnerships and cooperations to support women’s role :

A graduate female student at Al-Jouf University among the top 300 participants in the Microsoft Exhibition for the exchange of experiences

Al-Jouf University graduate student Ahlam Mohammed Al-Enezi achieved an advanced position in the world where her distinctive educational project that followed STEAM's methodology in education came within the top 300 educational projects selected to participate globally under the supervision of Dr. Fayyad Al-Anzi, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Methods of Teaching Science at the university, and the innovative educational project addressed the importance of bioengineering in building sound thinking to invest pressure and temperature to build bodies and models, and was selected to participate in Minti Microsoft to exchange experiences in education E2 which was held in Paris. Ahlam is studying for a master's degree in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods at the Faculty of Education at Al-Jouf University.

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Under the patronage of the Emir of Al-Jouf: The Rector of the University inaugurated the first awareness forum for women driving
The activities of the first awareness forum for women driving, sponsored by HRH Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Al-Jawf Region, and organized by the Vice Rectorate for Female Student Affairs under the slogan "Towards a Safe Positive Drive" kicked off on Sunday morning.

In the presence of a number of university leaders and heads of government agencies participating, His Excellency the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Ismail Al-Bishri, inaugurated the activities of the forum with a tour and guests of the university on the corners of the accompanying exhibition, where they were briefed on the contents of those pillars and the nature of the services they will provide to visitors, through exhibits and contents that enhance the awareness of traffic safety and safe driving as well as education on the rules of traffic safety, through brochures, paintings, displays, simulators and other means included in the exhibition.

The events and exhibition will continue until next Thursday, in the exhibition hall adjacent to the complex of girls' colleges in Sakaka, during the times indicated in the attached schedule of events, where a specialized series of workshops, lectures and courses for the community is scheduled to be held, addressing in their entirety the most prominent aspects related to driving and enhancing awareness among Saudi women of the methods and skill of driving a car, educating them on the most important foundations and rules of safe positive driving, safety methods, and informing them of the controls, regulations and regulations of traffic and safety, while an event has been allocated to the child, through which awareness tools are carried out Children with traffic safety rules and other concepts that must be instilled in the emerging culture.

It is worth mentioning that the most prominent government agencies with competence participating in the forum are: the General Directorate of Traffic, the Red Crescent, the General Directorate of Road Security, the General Directorate of Civil Defense, the branch of the Ministry of Transport, as well as a number of car sales companies, banks, and other private entities.

The titles of the scientific sessions, schedule, courses and training workshops can be found by visiting the forum page. Click here

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Faisal bin Nawaf met with Al-Jawf University Council praising the decisions to empower women
HRH Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Governor of Al Jawf Region, praised the recent decisions issued by the administration of Al Jawf University, which witnessed more empowerment of women and investment of female competencies in leadership positions at the University, stressing the importance of redoubling the effort and investing the support and guidance of the wise leadership supported by God in preparing the students of the University and providing them with skills that help them contribute to the development of their country and their leadership, wishing the University success and repayment.

This came during the reception of His Highness the Rector of Al-Jawf University in charge of Prof. Dr. Bader Al-Zaree and members of the University Council, informing His Highness of the progress of work at the university with the start of the second semester of the current academic year, where the Dean of Admission and Registration at the University, Dr. Nasser Al-Otaibi, provided statistics on the electronic admission and registration processes that took place in preparation for the beginning of the semester, including the number of students, which exceeds 25,000 students in various branches and disciplines, as well as scholarship students from multiple countries.

His Highness the Amir of the region also listened to a detail about the courses and programs provided by the university to the community through the Deanship of Community Service, where the Dean of Community Service and Continuing Education, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Eid, gave a detailed explanation of the training programs, their specialties and target groups.

Dr. Hessa Al-Ruwaili, Dean of Library Affairs and Supervisor of the Office of the Rector of the University, gave a speech during which she expressed thanks and gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the Crown Prince of the Secretary, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, may Allah support them for their support and empowerment of Saudi women at all levels, stressing that women will exercise their active leadership role at Al-Jawf University to contribute to the renaissance of the university and the homeland in line with the ambitious vision of the homeland.

For his part, the Rector in charge of the University, Prof. Dr. Bader Al-Zaree, expressed his sincere thanks to His Highness Prince Faisal bin Nawaf, Amir of the region, for receiving the University Council and its continuous guidance and support for all its affairs and programs, stressing that this will be a great support to continue working under the support and guidance of the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and his faithful Crown Prince, supported by God.

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Conference on Enhancing the Role of Women at Al-Jawf University Recommends the Importance of Highlighting the State's Efforts in the Field of Women's Empowerment and Support
Al-Jouf University concluded the work of the second conference to enhance the role of Saudi women in the development of society in the light of the vision of the Kingdom, which was organized virtually during the period from 17 to 18 November 2020 under the patronage of Her Highness Princess Madawi bint Saud bin Abdullah, and the recommendations of the conference stressed the importance of concerted efforts between state institutions to raise the percentage of women's participation in various fields of work, study the material and moral obstacles facing women and develop appropriate solutions to overcome them to help empower them.

The conference recommended the need to highlight the development efforts made by the State to empower women in the historical, cultural, social and economic context of the Kingdom and with an integrated holistic view, in addition to informing Saudi women of contemporary challenges and raising the level of community participation.

The recommendations included the establishment of an office specialized in women's empowerment issues related to the educational aspect in the Ministry of Education, the activation of Saudi women's empowerment programs at the level of educational and educational forums, as well as the review of the programs of productive families and the intensification of the training of these families in accordance with the requirements of the labor market.

The conference also recommended strengthening the efforts of development, training and marketing of projects run by women in line with Vision 2030, intensifying health awareness for women, and the need to pay attention to the bright models of pioneering Saudi women, especially in the fields of education and charitable work, and spreading the culture of volunteerism among members of society and its institutions through training programs that address this to various segments of society.

The recommendations also included relying on strategic planning for social and charitable development work programs in non-profit sector organizations, developing mechanisms of charitable work and raising the efficiency of workers in this sector, which reflects positively on the quality of charitable work, and establishing a database of charitable work literature at the national level.

The Conference called for the development of explicit policies and procedures that serve and support women investors, encourage their access to loans and services, facilitate procedures for obtaining the necessary guarantees, as well as activate women's advisory centers to follow up on projects that women can undertake.

The Conference called for the convening of an international conference on environmental, traditional and heritage crafts for the conservation and transmission of heritage to future generations in systematic ways, the provision of information support and advisory services for the development of knowledge power, raising awareness of the most important local and international economic laws and regulations, working to care for women with special needs, providing them with moral and material support and providing an enabling environment at all stages of education, especially in the post-public education stage.

The participants in the conference urged all concerned parties to invite successful women entrepreneurs, open panel discussions in which inspiring success stories are presented, and pay attention to the academic and educational aspect by opening specializations in various universities according to integrated and comprehensive strategic planning that serves the labor market and charitable work.

At the end of the conference, the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Dr. Salem Al-Anzi, thanked the participants for the distinguished scientific effort that was presented, and the recommendations that contributed to enhancing the role of women in the development of society, stressing that the university continues to support everything that contributes to achieving the vision of the country and the aspirations of its leadership in its various objectives.

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A female student from the Faculty of Computer and Information at Al-Jawf University wins the fourth edition of the ICT competition
As part of the achievements achieved by the students of the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Amal bint Mariki Al-Ruwaili won the fourth edition of the ICT competition organized by Huawei in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology out of 18 students in the Kingdom.

The Dean of the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Dr. Madalla Al-Ruwaili, explained that this achievement indicates the advanced level enjoyed by the students of the college, which made them compete at the advanced levels in competitions at the level of the Kingdom, praising the support provided by the Presidency of the University to the College in all fields.

The student was honored at the closing ceremony held remotely in the presence of Eng. Fares Al-Saqabi, Assistant Undersecretary for Digital Capabilities and Content at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and Mr. Zhao Liuking, Minister Advisor for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the Embassy of the State of China to the Kingdom, and in the presence of Mr. Stephen Liu, Executive Vice President of Huawei Saudi Arabia.

It is worth mentioning that the fourth edition of the ICT competition aims to stimulate the innovative thought of university students and accelerate their integration with advanced technology to enhance their competencies and raise the level of their skills and experience in order to support the digital transformation process in the Kingdom in accordance with Vision 2030.

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