The Vice Presidency of Umm Al-Qura University, in collaboration with the Vice Presidency for Development represented by the Deanship of Academic Development, conducted a workshop today on preparing guides for university policies. The workshop tackled the definition of the general frame of policies, and the applied procedures in the guide. It also dealt with the formation of internal regulations, bylaws, general principles, directions and mechanisms, employees' regulations, forms for conducting their affairs, and the policies followed in the university.

The workshop was held at the training hall of the Deanship of Academic Development. It was offered by the Vice Presidency Advisor, Dr. Ahmad Hilmi. Some trials were offered to prepare a policies guide for four deanships: the Deanship of Admissions and Registration, Deanship of Student Affairs, Deanship of Scientific Research, and Deanship of Information Technology. Additionally, it addressed the cases of the financial and administrative policies in the University.

Dr. Yasser Shosho, the Vice President of the University, indicated that the workshop was conducted to prepare a comprehensive unified guide for university policies because of its great importance in achieving the requirements of academic accreditation.