Message of CAQA Chairman

The Council of Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education is the body responsible for the affairs of quality assurance and academic accreditation in Higher Education institutions in the Republic of Yemen. It seeks to improve the quality of Higher Education and ensure its quality by assisting Yemeni Higher Education institutions implement quality assurance mechanisms and achieve academic accreditation standards. Therefore, since its establishment, CAQA has been keen to maintain an active role in providing technical support to Higher Education institutions to establish national standards, documents, guides and forms, and has recently worked on preparing the quality system as a standard to be applied in Yemeni universities in a unified manner, as well as verifying the readiness of the Higher Education institution for academic accreditation. This means all Higher Education institutions must have comprehensive and effective internal quality assurance systems, since they are responsible for the quality of their educational programs as well as for the quality of all their facilities and activities in practice. The principle of institutional responsibility includes that the assistance provided by the Council of Accreditation can have a significant role in assisting these institutions in planning and presenting strategies for the development process, and in evaluating and publishing the progress reports they have achieved. Yet this assistance does not absolve institutions from their own responsibilities, with the fact that any external agency or organization can provide assistance, but cannot provide quality.

To achieve this technical mission, CAQA prepares the necessary guide that helps educational institutions to establish effective quality systems that help them follow the necessary steps to apply for and obtain academic accreditation, first of which is the "Guide to Quality Assurance Systems for Higher Education Institutions", to enable these institutions provide the necessary requirements for ensuring the quality of education and for academic accreditation. The benefit of this guide is to assist Higher Education institutions wishing to apply for accreditation of the Council. The guide includes sufficient and accurate information related to the general framework of the quality assurance system, with its inputs, processes and outputs. This develops through the procedures for establishing a quality system as the cornerstone on which the different stages of the self-evaluation process and academic accreditation are built, in accordance with the standards of the Council of Accreditation.

This guide is characterized by its comprehensiveness and its urgent importance for educational institutions and their stakeholders, whether government or private, and other sectors related to and interested in issues of Higher Education development in Yemen.

The current leadership of CAQA appreciates all the efforts made by the previous leaders of the Council and the qualifications of the leadership of Prof. Dr. Abdul Latif Haider, the founder expert of this Council and the first architect of its standard structure

The Council of Accreditation cannot but extend its sincere thanks and great appreciation to all the experts who contributed to this great work, and took upon themselves the responsibility of designing, preparing and producing this guide as one of the national mission aspects that seek to develop Higher Education institutions in preparation for obtaining academic accreditation. We particularly thank the team of experts and advisors who prepared this guide.

We also extend our thanks and appreciation to the members of the Council for their distinguished efforts in reviewing and their continuous support during the stages of preparing this guide.

In this regard, the Council would like also to extend its sincere thanks and appreciation for the unlimited support that the Council received from His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education, to achieve CAQA mission and assume the responsibilities in the process of developing Higher Education, especially in this exceptional stage that the country is going through.

Finally, the Council urges Higher Education institutions to make use of this guide and provide the necessary requirements for its application.

God bless and guide all to the right path