Welcome to the NCATE accreditation website for the College of Education at Zayed University.

NCATE is the premier U.S. accreditation agency that reviews programs in teacher education. The College of Education chose NCATE because of its long standing reputation for quality standards, which provide the benchmarks against which agencies are able to compare our students. Our graduates must be highly qualified, competent and caring teachers and professionals. By linking the Zayed University Learning Outcomes (ZULOs) and the College of Education Major Learning Outcomes (MALOs)directly to the NCATE standards, we are assured of a scholarly process designed to guarantee the best teachers and professionals will enter the workforce in education in the UAE.

The College was notified in November, 2010 by NCATE that we have been approved for "Candidacy." This notification has  triggered work focused on a series of milestones that will culminate in a final NCATE site visit in November 2012.

I urge you to review the NCATE standards at out standards link www.ncate.org/public/standards.asp to get a sense of the magnitude of our task to design a complete preparation curriculum upon which to guarantee that Zayed University College of Education graduates are the brightest and best in the UAE.

Thank you for following and supporting our progress.

John R. (Bob) Cryan
Interim Dean