British Council provides 3-day training on higher education quality assurance and DelPHE proposal writing

The British Council will bring Professor Roger Hilyer, a British expert with extensive experience in quality assurance in higher education in the UK and overseas, to provide a 3-day training course for over 20 professionals of Quality Assurance and Research from the Ministry of Higher Education, Sana’a University, Taiz University, Hadhramout University and University of Science & Technology from December 1st through December 3rd. 

The first two days of the training will aim at refreshing the professionals’ knowledge about the Quality Assurance theories and equipping them with pragmatic advice and best practices. Professor Roger will highlight the importance of quality assurance, the characteristics of a quality culture, the roles and responsibilities, evidence for judging quality, structures and procedures, monitoring systems, UK experience, and other dimensions. Participants will be encouraged to tailor all these to the state of affairs in their universities and to come out with practical action plans. The third day will be devoted for DelPHE (Developing Partnerships in Higher Education) proposal writing and will target over 30 researchers from different institutions including Yemen’s Centre for Studies and Research.  

DelPHE is a competitive programme developed by DFID (UK’s Department for International Development) to enable HE institutions to act as catalysts for poverty reduction and sustainable development by strengthening research, teaching, and consultancy bases and promoting crucial MDG and science and technology related knowledge and skills. DFID is investing up to 15 million in DelPHE to support the building and strengthening of capacity in HE in 22 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and Yemen is one of these focus countries starting from this year. The Education Development Centre in Sana’a University will thankfully host the event and provide the required facilities.   

The British Council is currently working on a 3 year program for developing the Higher Education sector in the Middle East by focusing on two main aspects: Quality Assurance and Research Capacity Building. Hence, this event is just a starting point to set up the network, and aims at refreshing knowledge in order to plan for more tailored events in the near future.  Until Professor Roger Hilyer’s recent retirement he worked at Sheffield Hallam University in England.  He was Director of the School of Cultural Studies and then Director for Co-ordination of University audits.  He has extensive experience in quality assurance and enhancement in the UK and overseas.  In particular, he has worked in five universities in India and two university colleges in Malaysia.  He is currently working on an extended consultation in quality assurance for a university in Kosovo.

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