The Office of the Vice President for Education was established as an independent entity in 1991. The followings are the main responsibilities of this office:
Responsibilities
• Monitoring and evaluating the quality of the educational programs and activities of the faculties and the departments
• Evaluating the performance of the academic members, the directors of education, and the students
• Drafting and recommending administrative procedures for the educational affairs
• Monitoring the enforcement of the educational regulations and rules
• Running short-term training courses
In addition, the office has closely cooperated with the other sections to accelerate the progress of the university and has taken giant and practical steps, some of which are the followings:
• Expanding the educational programs, especially the postgraduate ones
• Admitting students and employing the required academic members
• Offering sabbaticals to the instructors to take up their studies
• Paving the way for the academic members to promote
• Employing Ph.D. scholars in different disciplines
• Amending the faculty echelon
The followings have been some other activities of the office in recent years:
• Approving the Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP) of the university
• Improving appropriate educational facilities
• Encouraging the straight-A students
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