Swiss Quality
21.06.2017

Ministry of Higher Education of Oman receives EFQM Committed to Excellence Certificate! First in Oman!

June 2017: The Ministry of Higher Education of Oman has received the recognition „Committed to Excellence“ from the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) . The Ministry of Higher Education is the very first organization in Oman who has received this international recognition for starting their Striving for Excellence.

The Ministry of Higher Education was conducting the EFQM Self-Assessments, the Excellence Trainings as well as several successful Excellence projects under the guidance of Dr. Karl J. Koller, international Excellence expert and EFQM advisor/trainer from the Institute for Total Quality Management (ITQM), Zurich, Switzerland. ITQM has supported in the GCC countries over the last decade many organizations in developping their organizations successfully towards Excellence.

=> see detailed report

=> see Press Release (Arabic) in Al Watan, July 7, 2017


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  • The EFQM Model is a very good roadmap to Excellence. It was a very well conducted workshop!

    Dr. Nada Fida, Quality Manager, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Jeddah, KSA
  • The workshop gave me a very good understanding about Excellence in Education. I liked to work with the case study. This was one of the best trainings I have participated during the last years.

    Prof. Dr. Jakob Kübarsepp, Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
  • The EFQM Leaders for Excellence Training by ITQM gave me a very good understanding of TQM / Business Excellence.

    Mr. Jazi Al-Thobiti, Q.M.S. Supervisor, Bahri (National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia), Riyadh, KSA