Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE) launched the quality assurance guide for education centers, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance performance and improve efficiency, ensuring comprehensive quality and institutional excellence.
According to Qatar News Agency, the Ministry stated that the guide sets clear procedures, tools, and standards that enable MOEHE to accurately evaluate the performance of education centers, thus, enabling constant improvement to their outcomes and operations. It added that the quality assurance guide establishes a mechanism to evaluate and classify centers into four categories: Excellent, Good, Acceptable, and Weak.
The statement noted that this classification is based on both internal and external evaluation processes that ensure accuracy and objectivity. The Ministry indicated that the guide also helps monitor centers’ compliance with laws and licensing regulations, and assesses their performance based on five specific national standards: Leadership and management; Human and material resources; Educational and training environment; Monitoring and evaluation; and Local and international partnerships. These standards cover 11 areas and include 29 performance indicators.
The guide also outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Educational Services Centers, the evaluation committee of Education Centers, and Education Centers themselves, ensuring coordination and alignment in achieving set goals. In a related context, the Ministry announced a training program scheduled for November, targeting a number of pilot education centers involved in implementing the quality assurance guide, in preparation for its nationwide rollout.
The guide was reviewed and validated by several national institutions, including: the University of Doha for Science and Technology, the Community College of Qatar, Qatar Foundation’s Pre-University Education, the National Committee for Qualifications and Academic Accreditation, in addition to the educational planning, policy and innovation department, and the school evaluation department.