ARQAANE Hosts ?Accreditation Commission: A Future Look at Quality Assurance? Seminar

AMMAN --- March 26, 2009 --- The Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network (ARQAANE) hosted a seminar entitled ?Accreditation Commission: A Future Look at Accreditation and Quality? , delivered by His Excellency Dr. Ikhleif Al-Tarawneh, president of the Jordanian Higher Education Accreditation Commission, on March 22, 2009 at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Business Forum - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business.
The Seminar focused on the role played by the Accreditation Commission and the newly established system for external quality assurance.
?The quality assurance standards and criteria are designed to urge higher education institutions to improve their educational and administrative effectiveness,? Dr. Al-Tarawneh stated.
?The assessment process will follow a number of steps that start with preparing a self-study by the institution, after which a team of experts will conduct a site visit followed by presenting a report to the Commission in charge of issuing the final verdict,? he added.
Meanwhile, Dr. Bayan Abdulhaq, ARQAANE executive director said, ?This seminar was held is in line with ARQAANE?s mission to promote excellence in education.?
?The Network aims at establishing an educational quality forum that facilitates regular meetings between academics and their counterparts to review the latest trends and exchange expertise and knowledge in the field of educational quality,? she elaborated.
A number of academics from Jordanian universities participated in the seminar, in addition to local and international civil society institutions that are concerned with the quality of education.
The Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network is a non-for-profit organization established in Belgium 2007 with the fundamental objective of raising the quality of education in the Arab world through providing accreditation services, disseminating knowledge and exchanging good practices in the field of educational quality.