NON-UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION

Postsecondary technical and vocational education is available at technical colleges, higher technical institutes and higher institutions for financial and commercial sciences. Most of these institutions come under the authority of the General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training.

Admission to any of these schools requires the General Secondary Education Certificate (sciences stream), the Secondary Vocational School Diploma or the Secondary Commercial School Diploma.

Programs are up to three years in duration and lead to certificates and diplomas.

I. Technical CollegesDuration: Three years

Curriculum: automatic control, auto electrical systems, auto mechanics, electrical equipment, electrical installations, industrial chemistry, industrial electronics and production engineering

Leaving Certificate: Al Shahadah Al Jami’iyyiah Al Mutawassita (Technical College Certificate)

II. Higher Technical Institutes

Duration: One year

Curriculum: not available

Leaving Certificate: Shahadat Al Ma’had Al Fanni Al ‘Aali (Higher Technical Institute Diploma)

III. Higher Technical Institutes for Financial and Commercial Sciences

Duration: Two years

Curriculum: accounting, commercial correspondence, English, insurance, Islamic culture, marketing and advertising, office machines, purchases and stores, secretarial skills and public relations

Leaving Certificate: Diplom Al Ma’had Al ‘Aali fil-Uloom Al Maliyyah (Diploma of the Higher Institute for Financial and Commercial Sciences)

IV. The Institute of Public Administration is a semi-autonomous government institution responsible for training civil servants.

Duration: Two- and three-year programs

Full-time Programs: banking studies (two years), electronic data processing (two years plus one summer semester), hospital administration (two years), library science (three years), personnel studies (two years), secretarial studies (two years), store studies (two years)

Leaving Certificate: Shahadat Itmaam Dawrat Ma’had Al Idaarah Al ‘Aammah(Certificate of Completion)