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European Journal of Educational Studies 2(2), 2010European Journal of Educational Studies 2(2), 2010ISSN 1946-6331© 2010 Ozean PublicationThe Map Way of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Social Group Work Educationin Egypt towards International DevelopmentAli Mosa Al-Shahat Abdel KariemLecturer in the Department of Social Group Work,Faculty of Social Work, Helwan University, Helwan, EgyptE-mail address for correspondence: m.zeidan@exeter.ac.uk____________________________________________________________________________________________________Abstract: The mankind’s earliest unified and strong country of 80 million people and annual growth rate exceeded 7.2%attaining the peak of its power, wealth and civilisation more than 7 thousand years ago is in need for national futuredevelopment creation operation to transform Egypt from being developing country to be a highly international leadingdeveloped country. This requires creating new era of national future development generally and within strategic sectors ofdefence and national security, health and education particularly. Although Quality Assurance and Accreditation in HigherEducation (QAAHE) generally and in the Department of Social Group Work, Faculty of Social Work in Helwan University inEgypt particularly is of wide capacity including human and material resources, the current picture indicates the need forfurther and future development focusing on qualitative factors in the first instance. To create this new era of national futuredevelopment and using qualitative methodology, this research comes with a new philosophy aimed at advancing QAAHEgenerally and in the Department of Social Group Work, Faculty of Social Work in Helwan University in Egypt particularlyfrom the national and/or regional level to the international level, and stating how this development of QAAHE in Egyptshould be constructed. This is to create a new vision through which higher education institutions in Egypt can provide ahighly international quality higher education available for all on the basis of merit without discrimination providing Egyptwith the generations who are literate, healthy, able to work, prepared and qualified for protecting themselves and theircountry. This research seeks to establish and assess whether there is a need for framing the map way of QAAHE generallyand in the Department of Social Group Work, Faculty of Social Work in Helwan University in Egypt particularly towards anew era of international development, operating via establishing a United Nations Organisation for International QualityAssurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (UNOIQAAHE) as a multidimensional international organisation withinthe systematic structure of the United Nations system for governing and operating International Quality Assurance andAccreditation in Higher Education (IQAAHE).Key words: Quality, Accreditation, Higher Education, Institution__________________________________________________________________________________________________INTRODUCTIONGlobalisation created a new global system with different forms of political economic orders like contractual relationships andtrans-national governance, new global functions such as credit-rating agencies as global regulatory bodies, and new globalroles like microstates as partially sovereign predatory actors (Cooley, 2003: Pp. 673-681). The current global case indicatesthat our world lives the culmination of development passing by global public goods which include a variety of global rules,commerce, transport, communication and new technologies to global public bads which include climate change, infectiousdiseases, financial contagion, conflict and insecurity to pressing challenges which include the rapid pace of technologicalchange, the diminishing cost of transportation, the increasing flows if international capital, the increased internationalmigration, the fear of the spread of disease and threats to the environment, peace and security and at last to the debatesregarding the tragedy of the restrictions accompanying the granting of private intellectual prosperity rights in general andhealth and agricultural in particular indicating the need to reach explicit agreements, co-operate to establish new and adequaterules, generate new products and services, dedicate efforts and partnerships to contribute to advancing strategic sectorsamongst them is health, agriculture, environment, trade, finance and other development sectors (Lele, 2003).49