Evaluation Criteria for Professional Institutions

Quality and integrity standards in professional institutions:

1_ Adopting the institutional system. Professional institutions are keen to adopt a clearly defined hierarchical institutional system governed by the principles and laws regulating their work, so that their board of directors is headed by academically and practically qualified persons who work on a full-time basis; and both the president and his deputy enjoy the required administrative and executive authority.

2- General frame of reference. Professional institutions set a vision, mission, goals and ethical values ​​regulating their work, which are officially adopted by their board of directors, and are published through a fixed electronic reference that indicates their name and work activity.

3- Strategic plan. Professional institutions adopt an announced strategic plan that outlines the plan and describes the institution’s development projects in terms of educational effectiveness, enhancing the quality of qualification and training programs, and improving institutional practices.

4- Financial stability and accountability. Professional institutions have sufficient financial resources that are well documented in terms of available sources, revenues and expenditures. These institutions are subject to a comprehensive financial audit by an external office with scientific, practical and professional expertise.
5- Nature of work. Professional institutions are keen on constructive and successful interaction between their managers and clients in accordance with the system of values ​​and ethics regulating society, and they carry out active activities either directly or through the main academic institutions cooperating with them.
6- Admission policies. Admission policies in professional institutions are clearly defined and consistent with their mission, objectives, and the values ​​and ethics regulating institutional work based on transparency, clarity, and integrity; these policies work to align researchers’ capabilities with admission to their programs.
7- Appointees in the institution. Appointed members in professional institutions have appropriate credentials and sufficient experience. The size of the institution’s staff is proportional to the number of activities and programs offered.
8- Research outputs. Professional institutions have official documents that clearly align researchers’ results and competencies with research topics. In addition, these institutions have official documents on the methods used systematically in the qualification and training programs they adopt.
9- Human resources. Professional institutions have human resources with sufficient and appropriate qualifications to make their research work successful.
10- Material resources. Professional institutions have sufficient material resources to support the effectiveness of the qualification and training programs provided.

11-Integrity. Professional institutions provide their clients with their printed and electronic publications, accurate information about their licensing, the composition of their board of directors, the qualifications of their administrators, the curricula of the programs offered and the status of their program accreditation, their policies and regulations regarding researchers, staff and financial resources, their program subscription fees, complaints and grievance procedures regarding all departments, their observance of confidentiality, their commitment to the system of values ​​of neutrality, fairness, non-discrimination, respect for civil values ​​and protection of freedom of expression, and their mechanism(s) for investigating any breach of the above-mentioned ethical values ​​and practices.