New Licensure and Accreditation Standards for UAE Higher Education Institutions

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The Ministry of Education has divulged another arrangement of measures to be utilized for permitting advanced education organizations in the UAE and certifying their scholastic projects, booked to become effective as of September 2019.

The dispatch frames some portion of the UAE's National Strategy for Higher Education and serves to accomplish the nation's desire for improving the quality and worldwide notoriety of its neighborhood advanced education part.

The new accreditation principles spread 11 scholarly and managerial parts of advanced education organizations, to be specific: administration and organization; quality affirmation; logical and investigate exercises; understudies; workforce; instructive offices; wellbeing, security, and condition; legitimate consistency and open divulgence; instructive assets; monetary limit and supportability; and network administration and honesty.

H.E. Dr Mohammed Ebrahim Al-Mualla, Undersecretary for Academic Affairs of Higher Education, said: “The newly launched accreditation standards serve to ensure the quality of higher education and raise awareness among both students and parents about the importance of pursuing higher education at institutions accredited by the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, they add value to qualifications obtained from UAE institutions both locally and abroad, which, in turn, boosts students’ and their parents’ confidence in these institutions and enriches the educational system across the country.”

H.E. Al-Mualla urged students and parents to make sure they enroll exclusively in Ministry licensed institutions and their accredited programmes.

For his part, Dr Mohamed Yousif Baniyas, Director of the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Education, said: “The new standards seek to facilitate the licensure and accreditation procedures applied to higher education institutions without compromising the quality of education.”

Dr Baniyas approached advanced education foundations to participate and guarantee that their applications for licensure and accreditation contain the important data to maintain a strategic distance from deferrals in techniques, and to react in an auspicious way to remarks and necessities of the outside audit groups doled out by the Ministry, so as to enable the Commission to issue licensure and accreditation testaments rapidly and consistently.

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