The Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network in education is established in Amman

    (Amman, April 17, Petra)The Chairman of the Advisory Board of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/ The German Jordanian University, Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh announced the completion of all procedures for establishing the Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network in education.

 He said in a lecture he delivered yesterday evening at Abdul Hamid Shouman Cultural Forum entitled, higher education and challenges of quality control and accreditation, that the establishment of an independent Arab Network for quality assurance is a pressing national need for the exercise of an institutional scientific activity geared towards the promotion and upgrading of educational institutions in Arab countries.

 He announced that the network will be officially launched in an international conference to be held this year at the premises of the Arab League under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Arab League Mr. Amr Mousa, the Honorary President of the Network, with a selected Arab and international participation. Mr. Abu Ghazaleh explained that selecting Amman as the premises of the network, where the headquarters of Arab Universities Union is located, embodies the sincere trend to establish the highest degrees of cooperation and interaction with this institution.

Mr. Abu Ghazaleh pointed out that the goal of the network is to design a comprehensive system of quality assurance and accreditation for the purpose of assuring that the structures, organization and educational programs, faculty and educational materials, teaching methods, models and methods of management in the educational institutions go in line with the standards and conditions set for the highest levels of scientific excellence in efficiency and elevate the levels of graduates, scientific research and the production of knowledge in addition to conducting a comprehensive assessment of the Arab educational institutions, such as universities, colleges, institutes and high schools, private and governmental, and the measurement of adherence to such specifications and standards.

 As regards the relationship of the Network with the Arab and international accreditation centers, Mr. Abu Ghazaleh said that he had been sending a number of Talal Abu Ghazaleh managers to European countries and America to start building bridges of cooperation and to conclude partnership agreements, stating that the Group has received several offers from major boards of quality assurance and accreditation in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and the United States to build relations of cooperation, and there is a parallel effort to establish relations and coordination with similar assessment centers emerging in some Arab countries.