7 universities that got "high confidence" and enjoy multiple privileges
Closing a higher education facility requires 5 warnings and takes 5 years
“Education” gives universities opportunities for improvement when some violations are recorded, including that the university’s headquarters is narrow or there is an acceptable shortage of administrators.
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Muhammad Bani Yas: “There are universities that were closed for non-compliance, some of them due to irregularities, and others whose owners decided to close for reasons of their own.”
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The Higher Education Adviser and Director of the Academic Accreditation Commission at the Ministry of Education, Dr. Muhammad Yusuf Baniyas, stated that closing any higher education facility passes through five stages of warnings, and takes between three and five years, to give it a full opportunity for improvement and to address the violations that were detected against it.
He explained in statements to "Emirates Today", that the Commission for Academic Accreditation does not close the university from the first time, but it sends warnings to the university first before issuing the closure decision, starting with an informal warning, where we address the university with some violations, but the violations are not published on the Commission's website. , so that the university’s reputation is not affected, and the informal warning is a letter from the Commission to the university without publishing it on the website. Not accepting new students, then placing the university under probation for the second time, and finally placing the university under probation for the third time and closing it. Therefore, closing the university goes through five stages.
And based on fundamental violations, the university is placed under the first probation for a year, then the review is done for a year, then it is placed under the second probation for a year, then the review is done for a year, and thus the process of closing a higher education institution takes three to five years, to give it an opportunity for improvement.
Baniyas added that the committees formed by the commission to evaluate universities look at a number of violations committed by the university, including fundamental violations, which are firstly related to the incompetence of a number of faculty members, and the lack of specialized professors, and secondly if they are studying weak content that is not appropriate for the university or is considered High school content or less, thirdly, the ease of exams so that all students can answer them, even those who did not commit to studying and did not follow them, fourthly, the lack of laboratories for scientific specializations, fifthly, the lack of educational resources, and sixthly, it was proven that students cheated in exams.
At the same time, there are some violations in which the university commission gives opportunities for improvement, including the fact that the university’s headquarters is narrow, or the university has an acceptable shortage of administrative staff, or the university has a lack of completing the writing of its internal policies and procedures.
He stressed that the certificates of students studying in institutions that have been warned of closure are legal as long as they study there during the warning period. Closing the educational institution in which they study to other institutions without losing their academic hours, or losing what they studied, and graduating in the name of the new institution, and their certificates are accredited, but in the event that the institution violates the decision to close, and continues to receive and teach new students, and they are aware of the The decision to close it, and they joined it after the issuance of this decision, their testimony will be unaccredited, and we have not monitored cases of that so far in the Emirates.
He pointed out that there are universities that were closed for non-compliance, some of them due to violations, and others whose owners decided to close for reasons of their own, while seven universities in the country received a "high confidence" evaluation, namely Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates University, American University of Sharjah, and University of Sharjah. Mohammed bin Rashid College of Medical Sciences, Birningham University, and New York University Abu Dhabi.
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