Research Centers

By Dr. Ali AlKarni

Editor-in-Chief

The King Saud University (KSU) has been progressing, however, it should reconsider scope of development in scientific research that consumes plenty of expenses spent on studies and researches.

If I had figures of the researching expenses, I would have explained to you one of the largely-developed fields on campus.

New programs on campus beef up researching process in many fields, however, they focus on medical or scientific fields, turning aback to researches on humanities. If do, they conduct researches on certain topics from which few researchers and professors do benefit.

Everybody knows that research centers are the sole body to finance faculty members' researches. However, most research centers earmark limited budget ranging between SR 10.000 or 20.000 for researchers. Such budgets hardly cover stationary payments and hinder having target-oriented researches.

I suggest to set up research centers for each department that has its exclusive big budget that covers researches made by faculty members. This way specialized scientific research is beefed up and bureaucracy of colleges is rid off.