Education a key to the Future

For AGFUND, education is a key to the future. It is the basis and the roots of continuous human and economic development. Nations seeking a place in the third millennium, need to support and encourage good educational systems by which they can prepare, qualify and trains their manpower to face the difficulties and demands of the era. For that reason, AGFUND seeks always to promote the spread of quality education. By these means it consequently supports and finances educational projects that combat illiteracy by implementing projects that manage to achieve early child education as well as higher education.

AOU - Its Goals

The Open University employs leading and useful techniques to provide equal educational  opportunities. One of its goals is to present high-standard education to a maximum number of Arab students and to contribute to offering practical solutions to concerns of Arab societies. Concerns that are related to major social issues like unemployment, the increasing demand for higher education, facilitating the poor's acquisition of their rights, and improvement of  women's roles in society etc...

Another merit of AGFUND's initiative is that it created a pattern of education in the Arab world that reduces high costs and big fees needed for advanced learning, and hence it reduced the financial burden that Arab governments bear in the field of higher education.

Degrees awarded by the AOU are:

-      BA in English Language and Literature,

-      BSc in Information Technology and Computing,

-      BA in Business Studies,

-      BA in Education (elementary, middle and secondary),

-      BA in education.

Diplomas awarded by the AOU are: :

-      Diploma in Special Education,

-      Higher Diploma in Education.

Degrees are accredited by the Open University in the United Kingdom and by the Ministry of Higher Education. Graduates are employed in accordance with government regulations in each state.

In the Bahrain branch, the  AOU has started a new graduate studies course awarding a Master's Degree. In addition, and in coordination with ministries of education in each country, the AOU launched an initiative to develop the efficiency of public education in Arab states, and organize intensive courses for faculty members in cooperation with the WIDE WORLD program at Harvard University. The goal of this program is to “educate”  educators to help them contribute to future improvements in teaching methodologies, learning techniques, supervision management, and educational leadership and control. The AOU is currently undertaking arrangements to establish two other new branches, in Palestine and in Yemen.

Statistics: Number of male and female students in each branch:

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