CIMQUSEF4: 4th International Conference on Quality in Education
Casablanca: 17-19 April 2007
The higher education remains in the heart of all the debates relating to education, everywhere in the world. It has more and more a role of essential lever of development, especially in an economy of the knowledge based on research and the innovation. The studies show for example that the OECD countries where the individuals follow one year of higher studies additional can, with time, to increase their productivity and their economic output from 3 to 6 %. The modern society needs more and more highly qualified competencies. Those should constitute the natural outputs of the universities, but this remains to be shown. The request for the high qualifications increases more quickly than the offer of the university institutions. Even if the higher education continues to feed the modern society of its elements of value, it pains to follow the rhythm imposed by the evolution which the world knows. . On this subject the example of Europe is edifying, it is not yet the knowledge economy the most competitive and the most dynamic of the world like wanted it the Summit of Lisbon in 2000.
To reduce this gap between the demand of the knowledge society and the supply of the higher education, several solutions are adopted by several countries: creation of universities of elite, alignment of those on the model of the Large Schools, management of the universities according to laws' of the market while preserving the statute of education like public property, introduction of the standards of competition between universities and application of accountability principles.
The CIMQUSEF4 has offered to the participants the advisability of examining "the role of the higher education and research in the construction of the knowledge-based society".
Mrs Éliane Tillieux, Belgian politician, parliamentarian and several times minister, was the guest of honor of the CIMQUSEF3.
To understand all aspects of the thematic adressed in this edition of CIMQUSEF you can download documents from the prgramme below.
JEAN-MARIE DE KETELE
University of Louvain, Belgium
RUPERT MACLEAN
Director of UNEVOC-UNESCO, Australia
NADINE MESKENS
University of Mons, Belgium
RABAH KECHAD 
HAYAT DIYEN
University Mohamed 1st, Morocco
CHARLES-HENRI RUSSON
Director of IFEAS, Belgium
IOAN RATZIU
University of Louvain, Belgium
FATIMA MOSSEDDAQ
Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Morocco
EMILI PALACIOS
Superior Council of Evaluation of the Educational System, Catalunya, Spain
ABDELHAK BOUAZIZ
University Hassan II, Morocco
HYGIN KAKAI 
Researcher in social sciences and humanities, Benin
LAÏLA OUBENAÏSSA-GIARDINA
University of Montreal, Canada
ABDELHAK BEL LAKHDAR 
Director of GRAFE, Morocco
OLIVER-SAIDI MARIE-THÉRÈSE
International Union of Engineers and Scientists using French, France
HAJAR CHEKIRI
University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Morocco
MOHAMED BOUABDALLAH
University Ferhat Abbas, Algeria
AHMED CHAKIR
University Ibn Zohr, Morocco
HOSHANG MAKTABI
Islamic Azad University, Iran
NIVES MIKELIC PRERADOVIC
University of Zagreb, Croatia
ROGER NIFLE
COHERENCES Institute, France
SANJA SELJAN
University of Zagreb, Croatia
REZA ESLAMI FARSANI
Islamic Azad University, Iran
JADRANKA LASIC-LAZIC
University of Zagreb, Croatia
ANGEL MORALES
Quality Assurance Expert, Spain
STELLA AHUNANYA
Negirian army school of finance and administration, Nigeria
JUN OBA
University of Hiroshima, Japan
JANAH SAADI
University Hassan II, Morocco
EVGENY BORODIN
Rector of IRPol (Kazan), Russia
SADIGH RAISSI
Islamic Azad University, Iran
BERTRAND FERRIER
Author and Editor, France
NGODI ETANISLAS
University of Brazaville, Congo
GINTAUTĖ ŽIBĖNIENĖ
Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania