TAG-KS and Institute of Public Administration Sign Cooperation Agreement

Amman - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society (TAG-Knowledge) and the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) signed a cooperation agreement on the training of government sector employees.

 On behalf of H.E. Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh and H.E. Mrs. Majd Shweikeh, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Zaid Al Majali, Director of Quality Control of TAG Knowledge Societies, and Dr. Abdullah Al Qudah, Director General of IPA signed the agreement. 

The agreement aims to advance cooperation in marketing, managing and conducting English language and Information Technology training courses between the two sides through international partners.

 At the agreement signing ceremony, Mr. Al Qudah emphasized that this agreement comes as an actual realization of IPA's guidelines on the implementation of the participatory approach with private sector institutions and serves to achieve the sector's future strategies on development and updating of its businesses, programs and training methods in the manner that serves the requirements and needs of public sector employees according to the best quality standards. 

 Mr. Al Qudah shed light on the IPA's role in leveraging the efficiency and development of human resources at the level of public sector institutions, marketing IPA's experts at the local and Arab levels, as well as providing specialized consultancies on the development of national and Arab human resources and enabling them to work efficiently according to the best practices.

 For his part, Al Majali stated: "We at TAG-Knowledge act in accordance with H.E. Dr. Talal's Abu Ghazaleh mission and vision dedicated to qualify the largest number of professionals, to enrich their expertise and to build their capacities in order to meet the requirements of their jobs holding the best qualifications. Indeed, this applies to employees or job seekers."

 He pointed out: "TAG-Org, through TAG-Knowledge and various TAG-Org companies, targets the Arab youth in general and constantly works on the development of its training programs to keep abreast of developments. Moreover, it also cooperates with many institutions to help in the development of human resources and provide the latest tools and means in the field of information technology and communications." 

 The terms of the cooperation agreement include management, marketing, holding courses and providing studies and consultations inside and outside Jordan in numerous fields, such as: electronic archiving, auditing standards in the public sector, experts of international accounting standards, VAT Expert training courses and Islamic finance courses (CIMA). 

 In this context, a joint initiative will be launched under the title of "Training for Employment". This initiative aims at conducting  research for the purpose of attaining harmonization between the requirements of the labor market and majors of university graduates, in addition to exporting Jordanian expertise and competencies overseas.

Furthermore, another joint initiative entitled "Training for Excellence" which targets public sector employees in order to stimulate them and increase their productivity. This initiative also involves collaboration in holding local, regional and international specialized conferences.