Jordan Times
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Education Ministry creates
performance monitoring department
AMMAN (Petra) — The Ministry of Education has created a new department in charge
of monitoring the performance of its personnel at the headquarters and the
field.
Director of the Employees Affairs Department Munther Asfour said the department
consists of three sections: Job descriptions, monitoring employees' performance
and a one concerned with promotions.
The official added that the new unit would play an important role in upgrading
job description cards for all posts in addition to developing performance
assessment mechanisms.
This modernisation process, Asfour said, seeks to set the criteria included in
the job description cards as the basis for promotions, appointments and
nomination of employees to attend various training programmes.
He added that the ministry would be issuing, through the new department, letters
of merit for employees “who deserve them,” and in accordance with the Civil
Service Bureau regulations in this regard.
In a related development, Minister of Education Khalid Touqan said the next
stage would witness his ministry launching anew all educational process tracks.
The institution will be working on a complete and comprehensive strategy
designed to upgrade all educational sectors, develop human resources, improve
education competence and management systems and keep pace with the latest
developments in the fields of education, management and IT.
The minister's remarks were made yesterday as he received the ISO 9001/2000
certificate issued to two educational departments in Amman and one in Madaba, in
addition to the ministry headquarters.
Touqan said the ministry is proud of obtaining the certificate because it
indicates that the Kingdom's educational system is achieving success. He noted
that the ministry obtained the ISO 9001/1994 in the year 2002, the first Arab
ministry of education to get such merit.