Message from the Director of QAAC

The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) occupies a leading prominent role in the field of education, training and consultation services that contributes to the development of the Arab community.  Accordingly, the AASTMT strategy aims to take a leading position in Arab community in education sector as a smart educational institution with a positive impact on the knowledge society through research, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. From this believe and passion AASTMT established Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center (QAAC) in 2012, this decision had a great impact on developing the level of the education processes to comply with the international standards and to achieve excellence and continual improvement.

Aiming further achievements towards excellence, the AASTMT developed the scope of monitoring the education process by including the administrative supporting units in the Academy to ensure the quality of all processes leading to excellence in the educational processes and guarantee an excellent outcome.

Over 11 years QAAC was committed to deliver support to all colleges, institutes and supporting units inside AASTMT by sharing experience and spreading success which reflected on the current situation of AASTMT by receiving various accreditations to support colleges and institutes and to move forward  with confidence to the internationalism such as ZEvA accreditation for Maritime sector, ABET accreditation for Engineering sector, AACSB for Management sector and FIBAA for Logistics and Supply Chain sector. Furthermore, QAAC was working closely with our Certification partner DNV to meet the requirements of the international standard and receive the certifications of ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, ISO 22000: 2018 and ISO 22301:2018.

AASTMT has expanded over the last 10 years to become more than 40 colleges, 8 campuses, 14 specialized centers and 13 institutes, which puts a tremendous responsibility to keep sharing support and success and pay an effort to be more creative, innovative and researchers.

In God we believe and in ourselves to support AASTMT vison and goals to move forward to digitalization, sustainable development through the application of the highest quality standards and governance.