In Bahrain, all vocational and education training providers adopt the quality assurance measures of the local or international awarding body. The Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labour play an important role in maintaining quality.

Ministry of Education

The evaluation system in secondary schools is based on the following:

			The continuous, diagnostic and formative evaluation carried out by the teacher of each course throughout the term. It comprises 30% of the course's final grade, calculated according to oral and written classroom performance tests.
			The internal evaluation is carried out by the school using a mid-term examination comprising 20% of the course's final grade. Specialised teachers in each subject participate in this process, supervised by senior teachers.
			The external evaluation comprises 50% of the course's final grade. The Ministry of Education carries out this process together with the schools, using a unified examination supervised by committees formed by the Ministry. These committees comprise specialist and senior teachers; they inspect schools' compliance and organise cumulative and summative evaluation.

Ministry of Labour

The Assessment and Inspection Section in the Ministry of Labour inspects licensed training institutions to ensure their training activities comply with established procedures. It also conducts periodic assessments of training institutions to check service quality levels.

Its role includes:

			ensuring that training institutions are licensed
			verifying that training institutions conform to regulations, legislation and official procedures
			working to upgrade the quality of training activities in training institutions
			classifying training institutions so that people can select the appropriate training institution more easily
			encouraging training institutions to upgrade the quality of their training.

Quality Assurance Authority

A new organisation, the Bahrain Education Quality Assurance Authority, is being set up to monitor, evaluate and support performance improvement in schools, vocational education providers and universities.

Self management

The programmes of all training providers in Bahrain are evaluated by both trainees and employers. The major providers have quality assurance personnel and conduct quality audits regularly. The programme content, delivery, assessment and accreditation are checked to ensure they are in line with market requirements.