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The Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs announced by President Juncker in the 2018 State of the European Union underlines the importance of higher education to build skills for the future of the continent and create jobs. This is to be achieved by improving the contents and relevance of education, enhancing innovation, facilitating the mobility of students and …
The Final Conference of HAQAA1; “Quality Assurance Hamonisation in African Higher Education: Taking stock, finding synergies, looking forward” took place on 3-4 December, 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. Near 90 participants from 32 countries attended this final conference hosted by ANAQ-Sup the “Autorité Nationale d’Assurance Qualité de l’enseignement Supérieur”, which is the state agency under the administrative and technical supervision of …
AAU announces its 2019 Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP), which will take place at the Al-Azhar International Conference Center from 8 to 11 July 2019 in Cairo, Egypt. COREVIP is being organized in collaboration with the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Al-Azhar University. Find more information here: First Announcement Concept Note …
Last 24-25 April 2018 took place in Cairo, Egypt the HAQAA Follow-Up Workshop to the first HAQAA Training Course. Around 35 participants from 25 countries attended this interactive workshop hosted byNAQAAE, the National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council of Egypt. The aim of this event was to maintain the momentum generated by the HAQAA Training Course, and provide its ‘graduates’ …
The fifth HAQAA Advisory Board (AB) meeting was held last 21-22 March 2018 in Maputo, Mozambique. The event was hosted by the National Council on Quality Assurance in Higher Education (CNAQ) and, aimed to give an update on the revision of the African Standards Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Africa (ASG-QA) and discussion regarding next steps as well as to …
Last 16-17 November 2017 took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the Stakeholder Consultation Workshop for the African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ASG-QA) which aimed to present and discuss the second draft of the document. This workshop aimed to bring key stakeholders together to discuss the second draft of the document. A first draft in four …
Last 27 -29 September 2017, AMC International organised in Johannesburg, South Africa, the 5th Annual Quality Assurance & Accreditation in Higher Education Conference under the subject “Achieving Harmonization of the Region’s Quality Assurance and Accreditation Systems”. This year’s meeting aimed to achieve harmonisation of the region’s quality assurance and accreditation system. The conference brought together representatives of higher educational institutions, …
Al-Fanar Media developed a interactive map which provides detailed, country-specific information about how the quality of higher-education institutions is regulated and monitored in the Arab world. This resource is an ongoing project that currently includes information for 17 countries. Information for additional countries will be added as it is collected, and existing information will be updated regularly. Al-Fanar Media correspondents used …
Last 16 and 17 October 2017 took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast the Seminar Joint Africa-EU Strategy: Structured Dialogue with Students and Alumni in Africa”. The aim of this meeting was to discuss about the ‘student’s participation in education institutions, improve the relevance of learning programmes for enhanced employability, and stimulate the innovative capacities of African higher education systems’. The …
This final phase of the HAQAA Training Course focused on the state of development of different QA systems in Africa and on how to advance the Pan African QA and Accreditation Framework –PAQAF– so as to respect the diversity in QA and accreditation approaches across the continent and enable capacity building. Background The first phase of the HAQAA Training Course …
