Ministry of Higher Education gets EFQM’s recognition

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Higher Education has received international recognition from European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). The EFQM Model provides a framework allowing organisations to evaluate their performance. The model also helps to incorporate the needs of all stakeholders and make sure they are aligned with the organisation’s objectives.

EFQM Model is used to get a complete view of the organisational performance and to understand the relations of causes and effects between what organisations do and the results they get. The Model is used by about 30,000 organisations across the world.

Dr Rawya bint Busaidiyah, Minister Saud al of Higher Education, expressed her happiness and pride to receive the international recognition . “We are extremely happy and I would like to thank Dr Abdullah al Sarmi for his initiative that has aimed at supervising all projects implementing the criteria of EFQM Excellence Model.”

The ministry has initially selected Directorate General for Planning and Development, Directorate General for Universities and Higher Education Admission Center for implementing the model. The excellence leaders have been picked up to supervise work teams. The ministry has given priority to six projects selected from theses directorates to implement the criteria of EFQM within 90 days.