Qaardan - Quality Assurance And Research Developmet Agency, Nigeria

Quality Assurance and Research Development Agency, Nigeria (QAARDAN) is an educational quality assurance and research organisation registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (RC: 481324), Federal Ministry of Education (FME/S/219/1) and the International Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (INQAAHE), whose headquarters is in Netherlands.

It was established out of a concern to align educational reforms in Nigeria with developments taking place elsewhere with the ultimate goal of integrating quality into educational provisions and attainment. QAARDAN is an organisation committed to quality training and capacity development using methods and instructional materials that are well-researched and fit for purpose.

For the past 5 years, QAARDAN has been actively involved with organising teacher training workshops with the ultimate goal of assisting school administrators and teachers develop themselves professionally and a number of institutions across the country have been beneficiaries of these training programmes which includes: Teacher Effectiveness and professionalism, curriculum design and Delivery, Customer Service Excellence, Effective Communication – the Art, Science, Practice of Communication in Education. Our clientele base encompasses several schools within and outside Lagos. We have been actively responsible in the training over 150 schools.

QAARDAN has

Experience of facilitating training programmes for participants from different cultural backgrounds
Adequate experience and networks to arrange for peer reviews
A pool of qualified and experienced resource person

QAARDAN is a non-governmental organisation registered with

Corporate Affairs Commission (RC: 481324)
Federal Ministry of Education (FME/S/219/1)
The International Quality Assurance Agency whose headquarters is in Netherlands
National Association for Foreign Students Advisers (NAFSA)
Networking with the USA (NUSA)
The University of Nottingham
Abbey College, Malvern

QAARDAN’S mission is to deliver and enhance capacities through effective and tested quality assurance processes. We deliver solutions that can add value to many areas such as professionalism in education, teaching methodologies, interpersonal skills, communication skills and managing sustainable quality assurance processes.