AMMAN – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global
(TAG.Global) and Zarqa University (ZU) signed a cooperation agreement covering
several professional and educational fields. The agreement was signed by Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh Academy for Capacity Building (TAG-Academy) Executive Director,
Mr. Yousef Al-Rawas, and ZU President, Prof. Nidal Al-Ramahi.

During the signing ceremony, the two sides
agreed on forming a team from the University and the Arab Organization for
Quality Assurance in Education (AROQA) to cooperate in promoting the workshops
of the International Arab Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education
(IACQA) of the Association of Arab Universities (AARU); workshops that target
all stakeholders interested in management, leadership and quality assurance in
higher education areas, in addition to leadership and management.

The agreement also included cooperation in
organizing and holding specialized training programs with the aim of sharpening
skills of faculty and university staff, students and local community in Zarqa
Governorate. This cooperation is to be implemented in partnership between
TAG-Academy and the University’s Center of Continuous Learning and Community
Service, where a number of training courses will be conducted to enrich and
sharpen the faculty members’ capacities, in addition to training graduates on
how to enter the labor market, write their CVs and prepare for job interviews.

Further, the two parties would implement
the Arabic Fluency program, as well as examine the possibility of opening the
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Proctored Testing Center (TAGIMETRIC) at the University
campus to conduct IELTS, Pearson VUE exams among others.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global) is
a global organization specialized in professional services, education and tech
products, operates in more than 100 offices around the world.

Zarqa University

Zarqa University (ZU) is a Jordanian university,
founded as the first private university in Zarqa Governorate in 1994. It has 14
faculties, comprising thirty-seven different disciplines. That is in addition
to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, which supervises 11 postgraduate programs
in different faculties.