Riyadh, Safar 6, 1439, Oct 26, 2017, SPA -- The Minister of Education Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa has met the U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at her office in the American capital, Washington D.C on the sidelines of his current visit to the United States of America. During the meeting, they discussed the challenges facing the global education systems in light of variables and modern technologies. The Secretary DeVos stressed the importance of educational cooperation between the universities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States, praising the Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program. The two ministers agreed to cooperate and build strategic partnerships in all fields of education through exchanges of visits at all levels. --SPA 19:25 LOCAL TIME 16:25 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w521669