The Saudi banks’ Media and Banking Awareness Committee has begun preparing “More Than Money” with INJAZ Saudi Arabia and the Ministry of Education, according to a Saudi Press Agency announcement on 22 October. The programme focuses on financial knowledge and money-management skills for middle-school students.

The partners are adapting an international educational model to Saudi culture and the local financial and banking environment. Planned interactive sessions cover money, starting and building a business, running it and international success, using material intended to suit the students’ age group.

The release places the programme alongside “Our City” for primary pupils and “The Company” for secondary and university students. Across its different programmes, the wider initiative targets 18,000 students and more than 190,000 training hours, involving 300 schools, five universities, 16 education departments and 40 student companies.

Those figures describe the ambition of the broader initiative. They are neither completed training results nor a participation total attributable solely to the new middle-school programme. The announcement does not provide an outcome assessment showing how students’ financial behaviour has changed.