• National bodies and development of quality assurance and accreditation
• QA and accreditation procedures, the programs in the Arab region and linking them to national and international quality and accreditation systems.
• Standards and guidelines for quality assurance and accreditation in education 
• Challenges and opportunities of quality assurances systems and frameworks (learning resources; monitoring of student progress and achievements; periodic program reviews; labor market requirements, etc.)
• Best-practices, implementation strategies, and policies of quality assurance in education
• Helping learning networks and communities to develop periodic reports on the quality of education
• Quality management systems and uses of ICT tools

Paper contributions are accepted in Arabic or English and should be submitted in PDF format. The deadline to submit contributions is 6 May 2012. After submission all contributions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee to evaluate the pertinence of each submitted paper and the authors will be informed whether their contribution has been selected for presentation at the conference.

• Full-Paper propositions must be submitted in the form of six to eight pages, with no more than 3500 words and include the following:
• Abstracts should contain a title and plan of the article, and around 500 words and 7 keywords referring to the central themes and concepts developed in the article. 
• Author presentation: surname, name, institution, full address, telephone number, fax, electronic mail and brief biography.

All papers must be submitted in a Word format and sent to office@aroqa.org no later than 26th of July, 2012.

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