Category: Credit and QFs
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Quality Assurance in Syria
The MoHE is responsible for quality assurance at tertiary level within the national educational remit. In 2005 a number of resolutions were issued in order to establish quality assurance centres sitting within each public university. Such resolutions allowed staff to be trained in quality assurance methodologies and to develop programmes for implementation. The Technical committee…
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Quality Assurance in Lebanon
Lebanon does not have a national quality assurance process; thus, it is up to universities to establish their own internal QA processes[1] as per law 285/2014. This internal QA will allow universities to have themselves ready to be quality assured by external evaluators, or eventually by the national quality assurance agency, when this will eventually…
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Quality Assurance in Jordan
Quality assurance is carried out by the aforementioned AQACHEI.[1] The vision of the commission is to “elevate Higher Education Institutions to global competitiveness.”[2] Monitoring of programmes occurs twice per year and is done internally by the specific university’s quality department, which also conducts student satisfaction surveys. The QA unit looks into the course content and…
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Qualification Frameworks in Syria
Syria currently does not have an official national qualification framework, and in the absence of such framework, the below credential comparison table is being presented as a guide of how Syrian qualifications would be referenced to the EQF, and to their European comparable programmes of studies, based on current practices by recognition centres. Credential …
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Qualification Frameworks in Jordan
Jordan currently does not have a formalised national qualifications’ framework; however, it is a member of the AQF and of the Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education – ANQAHE. Their national framework is still under development and referencing processes have not yet been launched.[1] It should be noted that the learning outcomes in…
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Qualifications Framework in Lebanon
A draft Lebanon National Qualifications Framework (LQF) was proposed in 2012 with 8 levels. The LQF is not yet official (not approved or published). In the interim various universities refer to the EQF in their diploma supplement. Some are also using the EQF when reviewing diplomas coming from EU for purposes of recognition. The draft…