Amr Mousa Receives Abu-Ghazaleh

03 Jun 2007
Mr. Amr Mousa, Secretary-General of the Arab League, received in the League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday, 30th of May 2007, Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network in Education “AQAAN”.
After the meeting, Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh declared that he has acquainted the Secretary-General with the arrangements of holding the First Regional Conference of the Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network in Education to be held in Cairo under his patronage. In addition, Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh thanked the Secretary-General for accepting the honorary presidency of the Network.
Moreover, the Secretary-General obtained copies of the cooperation agreements signed on the 22nd of this month during the meeting of TAGCB Advisory Board between the Arab Network and a number of Arabic and international institutions for quality assurance and accreditation in education. The said institutions showed their interest in establishing cooperation with the Network, namely; the British Accreditation Council, the Institute of Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance in Germany, the International Business Administration Accreditation Institution in Switzerland, and the Association of Arab Universities.
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh announced the registration of the Network in Brussels and launching its work from Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/the German Jordanian University. Furthermore, Mr. Amr Mousa accepted the honorary
presidency of the Network.
The Network aims at designing a comprehensive system of quality assurance and accreditation to ensure that educational structures, organization and programs, faculty, educational materials, teaching methods, management models and methods in educational institutions meet the prescribed standards and conditions in order to reach the highest academic levels in efficiency and excellence. The Network aims as well at upgrading levels of graduates, scientific research and knowledge production, conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the Arab educational institutions, including universities, colleges, higher institutes and private and public schools, and measuring compliance with such specifications and standards.