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Saudi: 60% of university places go to girls

Khaled Al-Anqari, Saudi Arabia's higher education minister has said that 92% of last year's high school graduates have achieved admission to university at the last intake and that 60% of university places went to females, the Saudi Gazette has reported. The total number of high school graduates in 2009 was around one million, the minister noted.

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