Care for the Gifted...The Deanship of Student Affairs launches the "Apprenticeship Program"

<p>The Gifted Care Unit of the Deanship of Student Affairs launched; This semester, the Mentorship Program is one of the global practices of nurturing the gifted, which provides intensive individual care to gifted students by university professors in various scientific fields, in order to achieve the best investment for the talented student. The nomination of students for the “apprenticeship program” is carried out through the secondary education departments, based on the results of the talent scale within the national program to identify the gifted. University students are nominated based on their high school achievement, aptitude test results, and the university average in the first year of university. In this semester, 19 male and female university students, and 9 male and female high school students in Al-Kharj Governorate, were selected, with different specializations such as computer, engineering, chemistry, biology, pharmacy and medicine. For her part, Dr. Zainab bint Majid Al-Mutairi, Vice Dean of Student Affairs for Female Student Affairs and supervisor of the Gifted Care Unit, said: Through the "Apprenticeship Program", the university seeks to discover talented male and female students, hone their creative and innovative skills and invest them for the benefit of the individual and society, by contributing to preparing the appropriate environment to stimulate their creative and innovative side. Dr. Zainab Al-Mutairi added; One of the goals of the Gifted Care Unit is to establish precise mechanisms for the care of the gifted, and to work on refining and developing their abilities and highlighting them locally and internationally.</p>