The Sector of Education at the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) took part, via videoconference, in the workshop on, “Academic Accreditation of Teacher Training Programs in the Arab Countries”. The Workshop was held on Thursday, February 9, 2023, by the UNESCO Regional Center for Quality and Excellence in Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of the State of the United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Kombou Boly Barry, Head of ICESCO Education Sector, along with a number of experts at the Sector, represented ICESCO in the workshop, which aims to discuss the issue of teacher training and its relevant outcomes, recommendations and proposals to help decision makers devise and develop education policies tailored to their countries’ cases and build on their outcomes to develop teacher training policies and programs at education colleges. The workshop also aims to accredit these colleges’ curricula, based on the best and latest international experiences and practices and provide solutions to the challenges they face in order to develop their systems to keep up with the changes of the 21st century.

Likewise, the Workshop discussed the criteria and mechanisms of the academic accreditation of education colleges’ curricula in the Arab countries and highlighted the findings of the study conducted by the Center to examine international experiences through the adoption of indicators and criteria with the aim of promoting teacher training policies and supporting the efforts of education systems in the Arab world to achieve SGD4.