Launch of the National Academic Standards for Pharmaceutical Education Workshop

In the presence of the Director of the National Center for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Educational and Training Institutions, Dr. Abdullah Abdul-Jalil Muhammad, the Acting President of the Libyan International Medical University (LIMU), Dr. Abdullah Al-Mansoori, Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Salma Bukhatwa, members of the Drafting Committee of the National Project for Academic Standards, several LIMU Deans and several deans of pharmacy faculties from several Libyan universities, a workshop was organized by the Quality Assurance Center and Scientific Standards for Educational and Training Institutions, in cooperation with the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Libyan International Medical University in Benghazi, on the 14th of June 2022. The workshop was organized under the title: National Academic Standards for Pharmaceutical Education. The ambitious national project aims to build national academic reference standards. At the beginning of this important event, the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Salma Bukhatwa, who is a member of the Committee for the Preparation of Standards for Pharmaceutical Education and Training, welcomed the guests at LIMU and acknowledged their hardships of travel and transportation and their keenness to actively attend this scientific workshop, which establishes a national project aimed at formulating scientific standards in all fields of education. The Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy praised what the National Project Committee had accomplished in record time. The workshop then started and was delivered according to the previously designed schedule. The activities of the workshop concluded in the evening after the completion of its target as an integral part of the national project, which aspires to build a system of coherent, well-established, and contemporary scientific standards, aware of the benefits of accelerated scientific and cognitive development. The workshop attendees have agreed that there should be pushing for the adoption of this project without delay because there is no alternative to it but further deterioration in the education system in all its stages in Libya.