The Agency is responsible for carrying out evaluation operations of higher education and scientific research in order to guarantee quality, improve the performance of their institutions and increase their output, while respecting the powers and competences assigned to other sectors and institutions in this field.
To this end, the Agency is responsible for:
- The evaluation of the training offer of higher education institutions of all categories;
- The evaluation of scientific research and the effectiveness of its structures;
- The evaluation of university cooperation programs and projects in the field of training and scientific research;
- Institutional evaluation encompassing higher education institutions of all categories.
At the request of the government authority in charge of higher education, the Agency gives its opinion on:
- Requests for State recognition of private higher education institutions, or its renewal;
- Requests for equivalence of foreign higher education degrees, under the conditions and in the manner set by regulation;
- Requests for accreditation of training programs, or their renewal or modification;
- Annual reports monitoring the State recognition of private higher education institutions.
In addition to the missions mentioned above, the Agency may carry out other missions, either at the request of the government authority in charge of higher education, within the powers assigned to it and after approval by the Board of Directors, or at the request of the Agency’s Board of Directors.
The Agency prepares an annual report containing a review of the year’s activities and recommendations for improving the quality of the institutions subject to evaluation, and submits it to the supervisory Ministry.
The Agency publishes its institutional evaluation reports and its annual reports. It also sends to universities and to higher education and scientific research institutions the reports on the evaluations carried out for them, so that they can be presented to their boards. In addition to the missions entrusted to it above, the Agency may, within the limits of its powers, carry out, within the framework of cooperation agreements concluded by the Kingdom of Morocco, evaluation work on foreign training and scientific research institutions.
It may also, with the authorization of the supervisory government authority, carry out, within the limits of its powers, evaluation work on foreign training and scientific research institutions at their request, within the framework of agreements it concludes for this purpose.