Qatar: New system for equivalency of university degrees launched

Qatar: New system for equivalency of university degrees launched

Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has launched a new system for equivalency of university degrees, providing a prior approval service for Qatari students wishing to study abroad on their own expense.

The new system also includes a service for equivalence of university degrees for Qatari students who studied outside Qatar on their own expense and obtained prior approvals, in addition to a service for authentication of university certificates for non-Qatari students.

In an exclusive interview with QNA, Director of the Department of Equivalency of University Degrees, Jaber Ahmed Al Jaber, said one of the advantages of the new system is shortening time of the process, accelerating work and achievement, avoiding errors and complaints, and allowing direct communication and correspondence with the cultural attaches of Qatar abroad which have the same system, thus reducing the stages of service involved.

He said the idea of prior approval aims to control the quality of university outputs for Qatari students, ensuring that the student is qualified and is a graduate of a recognised university and is able to assume responsibility and compete in the labour market, which is in line with QNV 2030, stressing that prior approval is the right of the student and