HE Dardari commended ARQAANE’s efforts in upgrading the level of higher education in the Arab region
This venue will create good opportunities to recognize the global modern approaches in education - Abu-Ghazaleh
DAMASCUS --- January 29, 2009 --- The Arab Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network (ARQAANE) organized, under the patronage of the Syrian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs HE Mr. Abdullah Dardari, the “Excellence in Business Education” Conference January 28-29, 2009 at Rida Said Conference Hall, University of Damascus.
The Conference, held in cooperation with Damascus University and the Arab Society of Faculties of Business Administration, was attended by Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, ARQAANE president and vice-chair of the UN Global Compact along with high ranking officials and academics in Syria.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Dardari stressed on the importance of excellence in education mainly in this stage, which requires highly qualified human resources to run public and private institutions internally and externally in a competitive economic era.
“I believe that quality and assurance in education is a vital issue to upgrade the level of education in Syria, therefore, there will be fierce competition in attracting high-caliber potentials to teach in Syrian universities,” he said.
Mr. Dardari commended ARQAANE’s efforts in upgrading the level of higher education in the Arab region, which also supports the Syrian approach to achieve assurance in education and exchange expertise with other Arab universities.
Meanwhile, Mr.