Abu-Ghazaleh: We are proud to cooperate with Jeddah Chamber on school accreditation in Saudi Arabia

Special to TAG Educa News Agency

JEDDAH – The Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in Education (AROQA) and Jeddah Chamber signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on the area of academic accreditation of educational institutions.

The memorandum was signed by HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of AROQA, and by HE Mazin Ben Mohammad Batraji, Deputy Chairman of the Chamber.

Abu-Ghazaleh expressed his appreciation to Jeddah Chamber for choosing AROQA for school accreditation in Saudi Arabia.  He pointed out the importance of accreditation in supporting proper educational environments aligned with accreditation standards that cover all the aspects quality of education. 

He confirmed that “AROQA has already launched academic accreditation standards for schools in line with the international standards. It has allocated all its resources and expertise to help schools obtain academic accreditation by applying standards, indicators, and measures of high-level educational services”. 

For his part, Mr. Mazen Ben Mohammad Batraji said: “The Chamber considers this cooperation as part of its commitment to development of quality in education. It seeks to keep up with the improvements required to ensure a new generation that copes with a range of scientific, professional and practical developments”.

He thanked HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh and TAG-Org for providing comprehensive services in variety of domains. He added: “the Chamber seeks, through this cooperation, to keep up with educational developments in the knowledge era, to develop governance and leadership, and to apply cutting edge technologies in teaching and learning”. 

The MoU aims at building cooperation and partnership towards a comprehensive approach to nurture a culture of school accreditation, raise quality of education, and encourage adoption of Arab accreditation in the context of school accreditation. 

This cooperation will be in the academic, scientific, research, training, and cultural aspects of school accreditation, and in the exchange of experiences and capacity building in this important domain.