Libyan Higher Education Committee visits UCL
12 March 2007
A delegation from the General People's Committee for Higher Education of Libya visited UCL last week to discuss quality assurance issues and the potential for collaboration.
![Professor Vince Emery and Dr Idris H Mabruk Elabedi Professor Vince Emery and Dr Idris H Mabruk Elabedi](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/sites/news/files/styles/large_image/public/libyameetingvinceemery.jpg?itok=eaaY2MVC)
The delegation of senior officials was led by Dr Fauzi S Elabed, Director of International Cooperation. It included Dr Suleiman Mahmoud Khoja (Director of the Higher Education Private Sector); Dr Mohamed Mahmud Ben Ahmedia (President of the 7th October University); Dr Attia E A Elfeituri (President of Garyounis University); Dr Idris H Mabruk Elabedi (Manager of the Libyan Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education); and Adel Ali Sennosi and Hamad Ahmed Abdelwahed Saleh, both of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Julia Abbott, Senior Executive Officer (Academic and International) welcomed the visitors, before a meeting chaired by Professor Vince Emery (Pro-Provost for South Asia and the Middle East), which also involved Jason Clarke, Deputy Director of Academic Services and Everard Whitehouse of the British Council.
Afterwards the delegation was given a tour of the UCL Main Library by Matthew Reynolds and introduced to the figure of Jeremy Bentham.
The meeting was part of a four-day visit to London organised by the British Council.
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Image 1(from left): Professor Vince Emery, Pro-Provost for South Asia and the Middle East, and Dr Idris H Mabruk Elabedi
Image 2(from left): Jason Clarke (Academic Services, UCL); Mr Adel Ali Sennosi (Libyan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Mr Everard Whitehouse (British Council);
Dr Idris H Mabruk Elabedi (Libyan Centre for Quality Assurance in
Higher Education)
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