Higher Education Enhancement Project (HEEP)
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Quality Assurance and Accreditation
   
     
    The Project’s Vision
   

The QAAP aims at allowing the higher education institutions able to establish quality assurance systems through preparing and qualifying these institutions to receive accreditation once the National institution for Quality Assurance And Accreditation (NQAAA) is established and declared

     
   

The Objectives of the Project

   
  • Developing a National Quality Assurance and Accreditation System in higher education Institutes (HEIs).
  • Developing an internal Quality Assurance system in HEIs.
  • Establishing a National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (NQAAA).
  • Raising the awareness of the culture of quality in education among HEIs and the community.
  • Ensuring the quality of the graduate to compete nationally, regionally, and internationally.
  • Establishing the National Academic Reference Standards and Benchmarks.
  • Upgrading the institutional capacity for applying the quality systems in higher education to assure the continuous improvement of quality in the Egyptian higher education.

The National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Committee developed mechanisms to carry out the following five sub projects in different fields of quality assurance and accreditation:

    1. Establishing a strategic plan for quality assurance within the development plans of every university.
    2. Establishing a center for quality assurance and accreditation in every university and including it in the organization structure for the university to assure it sustainability.
    3. Establishing an internal quality system in each faculty.
    4. Developing the National Academic Standards and Benchmarking.
    5. Developmental Engagement projects for the faculties that finished the preparation of their self-study.

     

The Achievements of the Project
  • Establishing the National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (NQAAA).
  • Contracting with the Egyptian universities to finance 177 projects at the university, technical colleges, and sector committee level.
  • Establishing 11 centers for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Egyptian universities.
  • Establishing 157 units for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Egyptian faculties.
  • Contracting with the Egyptian universities to finance 13 projects for establishing universities strategic plans.
  • Contracting with the Egyptian universities to finance 143 projects to establish the internal quality assurance system in each faculty.
  • Implementing 8 projects to develop the National Academic Standards and Benchmarking.
  • Conducting 24 site visits for developmental Engagement.

Constructing a database for peer reviewers to cover the site visit programs.

     
     
    Report
   
NO report name date of report download Type
Size
Type
Size
1

QAAP - Saleh - SCU - Arabic

June - 2003

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89.9
   
2 QAAP progress report Q4
December 2006
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959 K
411 k
3 QAAP progress report Q1
March 2007
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970 K
435 k
     
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