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Education Quality in the 21st Century: Excellence for Global Sustainable Development——UNESCO-ICHEI participated in the global forum of UNESCO-RCQE

2022.11.11

On 11 November 2022, the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI) attended the global forum under the theme of "Education Quality in the 21st Century: Excellence for Global Sustainable Development" organised by the UNESCO Regional Centre for Quality and Excellence in Education (RCQE).

Held on the occasion of World Quality Day 2022, the forum aims to strengthen the role of education quality in supporting the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The forum explores innovative solutions to improve education quality to meet global development challenges, integrating resources among regional and international organizations to share promising cases and practical experience, and to propose a framework to improve the competitiveness of education quality and achieve sustainable development. Dr. Abdul Rahmanbin Ibrahim Almedaires, Director of the UNESCO-RCQE, delivered the opening speech. He stated that quality is the primary issue of education and that ensuring quality education is a priority for education systems at the national, regional and global levels. He called on educational organizations and institutions at all levels to strengthen communication and cooperation to jointly promote the realization of the oUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Abdul Rahmanbin Ibrahim Almedaires, Director of the UNESCO-RCQE

Ms. Farida Aboudan, Education specialist of UNESCO Doha Office for Gulf States and Yemen, and Dr. David Atchoarena, Director of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, attended the meeting and shared cases on improving policies, curricula, approaches and practices in education systems to meet sustainable development needs. Emad Najm, UNESCO RCQE Project Officer, pointed out that in order to achieve sustainable education and tackle the challenges of global and regional development, countries and institutions should give priority to school education outcomes, and integrate resources from all aspects through effective communication, so as to improve the quality assurance mechanism and scale up impact.

Address by Ms. Farida Aboudan, Education specialist of UNESCO Doha Office for Gulf States and Yemen

Address by Dr. David Atchoarena, Director of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

Address by Emad Najm, UNESCO RCQE Project Officer

Prof. Li Ming, Director of UNESCO-ICHEI, delivered a presentation on the topic of "education quality and innovative solutions to support sustainable development". He stated that in the post pandemic era, it has become a global consensus that Higher Education Institutions should continue to adopt blended learning and promote digital transformation of teaching and learning. Through the integration of plans, course resources and teaching tools in alignment with the IIOE quality assurance system, UNESCO-ICHEI leverages the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) to provide trainings and tools to improve teachers' digital teaching capacity and the quality of online and blended teaching in HEIs. In addition, Prof. Li Ming introduced the "IIOE Quality Assurance Framework and Toolkit", IIOE capacity building programmes, blended learning pilot projects, and expressed UNESCO-ICHEI's vision to improve the quality of digital teaching, build future-oriented education, and facilitate the digital transformation of higher education.

Address by Prof. Li Ming, Director of UNESCO-ICHEI

At the end of the meeting, UNESCO-RCQE concluded the discussion and proposed an action framework on improving competitiveness of education quality and achieve sustainable development. The framework focuses on the development of future education in the Arab region and educational excellence models, highlights the outstanding performance of Arab countries in education quality, and provides regional and international references and recommendations for improving education quality and competitiveness.

UNESCO-RCQE was established in Saudi Arabia in October 2014. It is a category II institution under the auspices of UNESCO and an important initiative in Saudi Arabia's education internationalisation. It seeks to promote a culture of quality education and excellence in Arab educational institutions by making policies in line with educational trends, and providing capacity building programs based on the study of international best practices in the field.

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