Internship Programme, Seminar and Roundtable Meeting AQAAIW

The 2012 Association of Quality Assurance Agencies of the Islamic World (QA-Islamic) Seminar and Roundtable Meeting was hosted by the Egyptian National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE) in Cairo, Egypt from November 5 to 7, 2012.
The Seminar – themed Enhancing Exchangeability in Quality Assurance in the Islamic World’ – was attended by members of the QA-Islamic and representatives from the Egyptian universities. The seminar addressed the four subthemes: Regional Quality Framework, Mutual Confidence, Exchanges of Experts and Expertise and Rating vs. Ranking. The participants of the Seminar were updated with the current developments related to the subthemes in the member countries of the Association.
The Seminar was followed by the 2012 QA-Islamic Roundtable Meeting which discussed on the governance matters and strategic direction of QA-Islamic.
Internship Programme AQAAIW
The Association of Quality Assurance Agencies of the Islamic World (QA-Islamic) organized an Internship Programme for quality assurance officials of its member agencies from October 8 to 12, 2012. The programme was part of the Association‟s capacity building initiatives.
The five-day programme was hosted by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency in Kuala Lumpur in parallel with the ASEAN+3 Forum on Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
This programme was consciously designed so as to give the interns occasion to get connected with the Forum‟s participants from diverse countries and to benefit from the discussions that covered the fundamental principles of a quality framework.
Three officials from two QA-Islamic members, Azerbaijan and Indonesia took part in the programme and were joined by six other officials from Yemen and Namibia.