Sana’a: The Academic Accreditation Council and Quality Assurance of Education in Sana’a received on Wednesday an application from Al-Hikma University requesting technical and advisory support to ensure the quality of its programs in ‘General Medicine and Surgery’ and ‘Oral and Dental Surgery,’ and to qualify them for national programmatic academic accreditation.
According to Yemen News Agency, during the submission, Council Chairman Dr. Adel Al-Mutairi and Al-Hikma University President Dr. Mukhtar Dael signed an agreement to formally submit a written request to the Council seeking assistance in providing technical support to ensure quality implementation of the General Medicine, Surgery program, and the Oral and Dental Surgery program.
The agreement includes the initiation of a self-assessment process for both programs in accordance with the document and guidelines of programmatic accreditation standards and the templates issued by the Council. It also obliges the university to implement the self-evaluation study within the specified timeframe, while the Council provides technical and advisory support regarding quality assurance for both programs and their qualification for programmatic accreditation.
Dr. Al-Mutairi affirmed the Council’s commitment to strengthening partnership with the university and other Yemeni universities to facilitate procedures and steps, enabling academic programs to obtain national accreditation in accordance with academic accreditation standards, and to enhance the quality of educational outcomes.
He noted that this step represents the beginning of completing the requirements for academic accreditation through several stages, starting with providing technical support and preparing the self-evaluation study, conducting training workshops, forming external review committees, submitting files, and ultimately issuing the accreditation decision.
For his part, Dr. Dael explained that the university had previously obtained academic accreditation for the specializations of ‘Pharmacy, Civil Engineering, and Information Technology,’ noting that these steps come as part of the university’s plan to accredit all its academic programs. He said this reflects the university’s commitment to quality and accreditation standards and its strategic vision to build a medical education system that contributes to preparing qualified national healthcare professionals.
Meanwhile, Dr. Hussein Al-Hanash, the Monitoring and Quality Officer at the Accreditation Council, reviewed the conditions, steps, and procedures required to qualify the two programs for national programmatic academic accreditation. He stated that this agreement represents a fundamental framework that sets the methodological basis for providing technical and advisory support to ensure that the programs meet national standards (NARZ) requirements and enhance the university’s ability to deliver high-quality medical education.