In the process of completing the establishment and development of its strategic plan, the UNESCO Regional Centre for Quality and Excellence in Education (UNESCO RCQE) held the first workshop to build the vision and mission of the center. At the opening of the workshop, the Director-General of the center, Dr. Husam Abdel Wahab Zaman, explained the brief history of founding the Center in Saudi Arabia and the tremendous reinforcement and support the center received from the government as an international initiative to refine and redefine the quality and excellence practices of educational organizations in Saudi Arabia and all countries in the Arab region. Dr. Husam Zaman further explained the nature of the work at the UNESCO Regional Center and its role as the first center of its kind in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as being the first center in the world under the UNESCO specializing in quality and excellence in education. At the end of his opening speech, Dr. Husam Zaman introduced the staff working at the center whose all members are graduates of King Abdullah Scholarship Program.
The focus of the workshop was on building the vision and mission that are significant for the development of the medium-term strategy of the center. Discussions at the workshop centered around RCQE’s nook and complementary role as a support center to all regional educational organizations, agencies, and national initiatives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The workshop was organized in partnership between UNESCO RCQE and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and was attended by a group of experts in education and quality and excellence issues from a number of educational organizations like the Ministry of Education, Public Education Evaluation Commission, the Institute of Public Administration, a number of Saudi universities and from the private education sector.
