Conference 08: "The Quality of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Arab World to Meet Future Challenges", Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, December 2001

Conference 08: "The Quality of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Arab World to Meet Future Challenges", Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, December 2001

The conference's recommendations covered multiple aspects, most notably calling on the Arab states to establish Arab standards for quality and academic excellence, and to create national bodies and councils to control and ensure quality in public and private higher education and scientific research institutions. Likewise, calling for the implementation of pioneering projects to develop the administration of higher education and scientific research institutions by drawing on total quality management systems, and diversifying the funding sources of higher education and using non-traditional means to do so. The recommendations also affirmed the right of the Arab individual to education and to possessing the means of science and technology, and to confronting the methods practiced by foreign powers that undermine the rights of the Arab individual and their national and religious beliefs.