When a young person’s whole future depends on a certificate, should you care if it’s recognised?

I’m sure that you care about your children’s education and that too of the other youths in your society. Raring to “grow up” and get on with their lives. How harrowing is it then if at the cusp of their career they find that their toil for a number of years in a university has been worthless as its certification is deemed to be sub-standard and unrecognised?

This refrain has unfortunately become very familiar in Bahrain, with the snow-ball starting with Kuwait refusing to recognise some Bahraini “universities”, a fact confirmed by the QAAET. Some universities have made serious attempts at correcting their situations of course, but still, a number of young graduates are between the proverbial rock and a hard place and staring into what seams to them to be a bleak future.

On 1st of March 2009 at our regular weekly meeting the Club welcomed an expert to underline the issues of university certification accreditation and to help us learn more about this important topic.

The Rotary Club of Adliya welcomed Dr. Muna Al Balooshi – Assistant Secretary General for Accreditation and Evaluation, who talked to us about this subject and answered some of our questions.

Please take the time to listen to the following Podcast which is a recording of her presentation. Should you wish to, you can also download her presentation in PDF format.