Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Asimi Rector of PSAU received in his office at the Universit City in Al Kharj Dr. Saleh Al Kahtani Vice-Rector of Development and Quality, and Dr. Saad Azzahrani Dean of Development and Quality. The visit aimed to hand Rector the ISO 9001 Certificate that was obtained from the British Standards Institute (BSI).
In addition, Rector thanked the team work for their efforts that led to obtain this certificate, which is a unique step toward satisfying the university’s desire in achieving the best standard in all aspects. It also a step toward competing local and regional universities. Moreover, Dr. Al Kahtani denoted that obtaining this certificate is a part of the university’s plan to obtain the academic accreditation and elevating the academic performance. Furthermore, Dr. Azzahrani expressed his thanks and appreciations to Dr. Al Asimi, Dr. Al Kahtani and all the Vice-Rectorate of Development and Quality for their support and participation that led to obtain this certificate.
Furthermore, Dr. Al Kahtani stated the university has begun the implementation of quality administration system since 8/9/2013 through applying the requirements of the ISO 9001, qualifying the university to obtain a certificate environment and quality, and through creating a system to administrate quality in the university. In addition, the university has trained the employees on the standards and developed a mechanism for continuous enhancement to the quality system. It also prepared the systems documents through field visitations to the university’s administrations, besides forming a team follow-up the conducted procedures on this regard. Then, the university held a training program for 60 person to prepare them as internal auditors for the quality system. It also implemented a plan for the internal audition in the university, which is finished the first stage and recommended move towards the final evaluation stage. At the end of evaluation stage, the university has obtained the ISO 9001 Certificate.
