The Secretariat General of the Higher Education Council conducted a workshop on “Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme” as part of its strategy to promote the professional level of the academic staff in the Higher education institutes in Bahrain, and to prepare them to achieve the rank of professional Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy UK, based on the agreement between the Government of Bahrain and the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

The workshop took place in ICT Regional Center located in the Gulf Hotel Executive offices building from 13-17 Oct 2016 from 8am to 4 pm.

ASU nominated 7 staff members to attend the workshop, Dr. Ahmad Azzam Elmasri, Dr. Hooreya Aldeeb, Dr. Ammar Alsammarraee, Mr. Ammar Ahmed, Mr. Rashed Ismail, Miss Fajer Ali, and Ms. Noora Musalam. The group has to attend again two more workshops of four days each in January and April 2017, in order to qualify them to apply for the Fellowship certificate from The Higher Education Academy in UK.

Director of Scientific Research in HEC, Dr Farzana Al-Maraghi was in charge of the workshop which was very successful. The trainers selected a group of Mentors to follow up with the local staff until the next workshop in Jan 2017; Dr. Hooreya Aldeeb was selected as a mentor for ASU staff.