policies and programmes relating to the education of minorities. Anxiety from the Shiite minority comes mainly from their inability to have administrative positions in neither in higher or lower educational institutions, particularly in female institutions. 3. Education must contribute to the elimination of prejudices among the population and promote mutual respect, understanding and tolerance among all the people residing in the state, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or culture. The Saudi religion courses are filled with a lot of abuse to the Shi'a religion directly and indirectly forcing the minority group to study and take exams that do not represent their principles. It is the duty of the state to ensure a welcoming learning environment for the children of minorities and not an unsafe environment for them. Unfortunately though, it is not allowed for the children of the Shiite community to form their own religious curriculum to raise them by or educate them with. 4. Allow the Shiite minority to establish educational institutions in religious and public disciplines. This is to ensure parents or legal guardians have the liberty to choose for their children institutions other than those established by the state authorities, ensuring that the religious and moral education their children receive is in conformity with their own convictions. The state should not hinder the enjoyment of this right by imposing any legal barriers or other conditions from establishing and managing these institutions. There still exists concern given there is currently no opportunity for citizens from the Shi'a minority to establish special educational institutions in any of the religious or public disciplines. Members of the Shi'a minority are not granted licenses needed to establish special daycares and schools even those that know the current official curriculum. 5. And where it is necessary to have different forms of education including curricula and teaching methods acceptable to the parents and children that is relevant, culturally appropriate and of good quality the state must modify the general education curriculum and the public education in the area of Shiite religious belief, as it is stipulated in the Declaration on the Rights of Minorities. Dr. Sadik M. AL-Jabran, Doctorate in Le gal Advisor Participant in the pilot fellowship programme for minorities, Arabic speaking, January 2008