The Board of Directors of the National Agency for the Evaluation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education and Scientific Research held its tenth meeting on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at ten o’clock. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Driss Ouaouicha, Minister Delegate in charge of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in the presence of the members of the Board and a number of invited guests.
Mr. the Minister Delegate opened his address by welcoming the members of the Agency’s Board of Directors, whether present in the room or following the meeting remotely, and by commending their serious and continued commitment to speeding up the pace of the Agency’s work and improving the quality of the work it carries out.
He then presented the items on the agenda, which included the following:
• Approval of the minutes of the meeting of December 15, 2020;
• Closing of the financial statements;
• Program evaluation operation;
• Institutional evaluation operation;
• Costs of institutional evaluation services;
• Launch of the European Union project: twinning project;
• Miscellaneous.
After the approval of the minutes of the ninth meeting of the Agency’s Board of Directors, held on December 15th, 2020, the floor was given to Mr. Abdelilah Ziyat, the Agency’s chartered accountant, to present the financial statements.
Mr. El Mokhtar Bakkour, Director of the Agency, then gave a presentation on the evaluation of training programs for the 2021 session, considered an exceptional session because of:
• the large number of program accreditation requests received (1,259 programs), divided between new accreditation requests (about 70%) and accreditation renewal requests (about 30%);
• the start of the evaluation of Bachelor accreditation requests (278 programs);
• the launch of the digital platform for the accreditation of training programs, e-Accréditation.
The Agency carried out its first experience in this field, which covered the evaluation of ten university institutions belonging to ten public universities and three institutions belonging to three partner universities.
In this context, Mr. the Director explained that the second institutional evaluation operation has been launched. It covers twenty-four university institutions, at a rate of two institutions per public university (including limited-access institutions and open-access institutions), in addition to five institutions belonging to five private universities.
In his closing remarks, Mr. the Minister kindly recalled the decisions taken during this meeting and thanked all the members of the Board for their commitment and continued support of the Agency, enabling it to carry out its missions under the best conditions and to the fullest extent.