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His Excellency the President of Qassim University, Prof. Dr. Khalid bin Abdulrahman Al-Hamoudi, launched 8 projects for the first phase of the strategic plan of the Deanship of Quality Assurance and Academic Accreditation. This came during the annual quality ceremony organized by the university, represented by the Vice Deanship of Planning, Development and Quality, in the presence of the Secretary General of the National Commission for Academic Accreditation, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulkarim Al-Musallam, university vice presidents, deans of colleges, deanships and departments.
The UQU Vice President for Planning, Development and Quality Dr. Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al-Yahya confirmed that the university is pleased to launch a package of projects from the strategic plan and academic accreditation, which is of great importance to the university, explaining that there are teams that play a great role during daily tours on colleges and evaluate them, which resulted in obtaining the shields of the Director, represented by the diamond, gold, silver and bronze shield according to the specified criteria, adding that this year a "rising" shield was added for colleges that announce their start and rise to achieve quality standards, He offered sincere congratulations to the colleges, deanships and departments that were able to obtain the shields of the UQU President for quality, wishing everyone progress in quality and obtaining advanced levels during this academic year.
Dr. Al-Yahya appreciated the support of the UQU President for the quality and accreditation process, extending his thanks and appreciation to all those who contributed and supported the quality process during the academic year, represented by colleges, deanships and departments,
For his part, the Dean of Quality Assurance, Dr. Sultan Al-Muhaimid, stressed that the university has taken steady steps and made great strides in the march of institutional and programmatic quality in record time until Qassim University became a beacon for a number of universities in the country and an example to be followed.
He explained that the university's achievements in the field of quality at the institutional and programmatic levels, which finally exceeded the percentage of obtaining international programmatic accreditation on 25% of the university's programs without repetition and added that the percentage will exceed 60% within months if we take into account the proximity of academic programs in the College of Economics and Administration to obtain international programmatic accreditation, stressing that the package of eight new projects entitled the development of study programs and the development of cooperation and twinning mechanisms with community parties," and the most prominent aim of this package is to prepare and implement benchmark comparisons in the field of programs, plans and curricula on
He stressed the deanship's endeavor during this academic year to fully transform towards the automation of institutional and programmatic quality systems and works. The first step has already begun to set the infrastructure for the automation of quality systems and works, as the main quality documents were transferred from physical documents to electronic documents in an exhibition that is the first of its kind.
In addition, the colleges that won the shields of His Excellency the UQU President were honored, as well as the deanship and supporting departments that won the shields of His Excellency the UQU President for quality.
He also signed program accreditation contracts with the National Commission for the Evaluation of Academic Accreditation for a number of university colleges. In addition, the UQU President inaugurated the accompanying exhibition documenting the quality work carried out by the colleges, deanships and administration of the university, which included various quality documents according to different standards.