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Country Name: Palestine
Name of Organization or Agency: Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission
Organization/Agency Head
Name: Dr. Mohamad al subu`
Title: Head of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission
The Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission is an autonomous body under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, responsible directly to the Minister. The Commission has a full-time Head, a small group of professional and support staff, and a Council of 9 professionals whose mandate is to take final decisions—which get ratified by the Minister—about its areas of responsibilities.
The general objective of the Commission is the improvement of the quality of Palestinian higher educational programs and institutions. It has the responsibility of accreditation of new academic programs, and licensing and accrediting of any new educational institution, regardless of specialization and level of degree. Towards this end, it reviews existing criteria; develops new criteria for accreditation and licensing; and develops procedures for the ongoing comprehensive assessment of all programs of study that grant academic degrees. The comprehensive program assessment has started this year, using the two-tier methodology of self-evaluation and external evaluation.
27 January 2002
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