Abu-Ghazaleh announces at Shouman Forum the establishment of the Arab Network for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in education to be based in Amman
16 Apr 2007Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business (TAGCB)/German Jordanian University, and member of the Board of Trustees of the College, announced the completion of all the procedures for establishing the Arab Network for quality assurance and accreditation in education to be based at TAGCB, Amman. Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh said: “we are preparing for cooperation agreements to this end with the Secretariat of the Arab League and the Association of Arab Universities.”
This came in a lecture today by Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh upon the invitation of the Abdul Hamid Shouman cultural Forum, entitled “Higher Education and the Challenges of Quality Control and Accreditation”, which dealt with the reality of higher education in the Arab region. The lecturer was introduced by H.E. Mr. Thabet Al –Taher, General Manager of Abdul Hamid Shouman Foundation.
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh said that the establishment of an independent Arab network for quality assurance and accreditation in education is a pressing national need for exercising an institutional scientific activity geared towards the promotion and upgrading of educational institutions in Arab countries.
He added that the goal of the network is to design a comprehensive system for quality assurance and accreditation for the purpose of assuring that the educational structures, organization, programs, faculty, learning materials ,teaching methods, models and management methods in educational institutions comply with the standards and conditions set up to achieve the highest levels of scientific excellence in efficiency and upgrading graduates, scientific research and knowledge production, in addition to providing a comprehensive solution to the Arab educational institutions, universities, colleges and higher institutes, private and government schools, and measuring the level of compliance with the specifications and standards.
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh also 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 His Excellency Mr. Amr Mousa, the Honorary President of the Network, with the participation of selected Arab and international figures.
Mr. Abu Ghazaleh said that he presented a proposal to the Arab Summit Conference held recently in Riyadh for the establishment of an Arab authority which aims to achieve a pilot vision towards ensuring the quality of education in the Arab countries in accordance with the highest levels of global quality and accreditation standards.
He explained that selecting Amman as the headquarters of the Network, where the Union of Arab Universities is located, reflects the tendency to maintain the highest degrees of cooperation and interaction with this institution which we have all respect and appreciation for it and its Secretary-General Dr. Saleh Hashem for their efforts in the interest of educational institutions throughout the Arab world.
Relationship with Arab and international accreditation centers
About the Network’s relationship with Arab and International 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. We received several positive re sponses as we have received 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.
About the Network’s relationship with Arab and International 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. We received several positive re sponses as we have received 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.
The role of Abu-Ghazaleh Group in the establishment of the Network
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh stressed that his concern in establishing an independent Arab Network for quality assurance and accreditation in education was based on and compatible with the mission and objectives of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Group embodied in capacity building in various professional areas which contributes in the economic and social development. Such services include intellectual property, accounting and auditing, licensing technology transfer, qualifying in the field of information technology and the skills of computer use. Then TAGCB came, one of the basic colleges of the German Jordanian University to top the mission of the Group which shall be followed in the next stage by the University village project in Aqaba which shall bear the name of Abu-Ghazaleh Business, an integrated project being studied by officials in the Special Economic Zone Authority and Aqaba Development Company..
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh stressed that his concern in establishing an independent Arab Network for quality assurance and accreditation in education was based on and compatible with the mission and objectives of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Group embodied in capacity building in various professional areas which contributes in the economic and social development. Such services include intellectual property, accounting and auditing, licensing technology transfer, qualifying in the field of information technology and the skills of computer use. Then TAGCB came, one of the basic colleges of the German Jordanian University to top the mission of the Group which shall be followed in the next stage by the University village project in Aqaba which shall bear the name of Abu-Ghazaleh Business, an integrated project being studied by officials in the Special Economic Zone Authority and Aqaba Development Company..
Reducing spontaneous and random education
The Lecturer concluded by saying that the establishment of the Network is an ambitious, and that is an expensive and somewhat a difficult task but our Arab countries need it to curb the spontaneous and random higher education, and to plan for the same in a scientific manner that develops the laws, methods of planning, development, licensing, accreditation, supervision, the availability of resources, control and accountability in education. It must be emphasized that we strive to make obtaining the Arab academic accreditation a source of reassurance of the level of the graduates of our educational institutions, their ability to acquire a distinct personality, the continuity and competition, and occupy the lead positions in the classification of educational institutions at the global level, which makes the Arab educational institutions better and able to protect and develop our own social, economic, cultural and urban positions, and take advantage of the most successful experiences in the world.
Free Internet for students in Amman
Amongst the modern projects related to capacity building, which has been adopted by the Organization, Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh announced that at present, a special project with a new prospective is being established for the knowledge society opposite the entrance of the University of Jordan, where the largest center of its kind in the capital, Amman, will be established to provide free services for students to use the Internet, and will be a new kind of science centers to be put into the service of students .
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