EduGov is a Canadian consultancy that helps ministries, TVET systems and educational and training institutions compare themselves with strong international peers, measure what matters, and carry improvement through to implementation. Our work centres on institutional benchmarking, monitoring and evaluation, and governance across the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf.
استشاريون في حوكمة النظم التعليميةConsultants in Educational Systems Governance
Saudi Arabia's TVET system, benchmarked pillar by pillar against five reference systems
| Pillar | KSA | AUS | FIN | DEU | KOR | USA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governance & operationsStructures, policies, roles | ||||||
| Programmes & curriculaDesign, updating, market fit | ||||||
| Quality assuranceStandards, review, improvement | ||||||
| EmployabilityEmployers, work-based learning | ||||||
| Enabling environmentFunding, linkages, priorities |
KSA Saudi Arabia · AUS Australia · FIN Finland · DEU Germany · KOR South Korea · USA United States
Each assignment ends with something the client keeps and uses: an indicator set, an owned roadmap, a trained team, or a decision their leadership can defend.
Comparative studies against selected peers and standards. Benchmarking architecture, indicators and KPI systems, maturity assessments, and the evidence base for accreditation and ranking readiness.
M&E frameworks for reform programmes and donor-funded projects: results chains, baselines, data-collection instruments, mixed-method evaluation, and learning loops that feed management decisions.
Labour-market alignment, programme and curriculum review, employability outcomes, competency-based design, and pathways between technical education and higher education.
Governance and operating-model reviews, strategic planning, and the translation of strategic plans into owned implementation and monitoring frameworks.
LMS and platform assessment, learning analytics, conversion of technical curricula into performance-based blended programmes, faculty readiness, and the design of hybrid-learning centres of excellence.
Saudi and GCC demand scans, partner and stakeholder mapping, entry models and risk gates for educational and training institutions planning regional engagement.
Across every practice: capacity building and knowledge transfer, so that institutions can run the system after the consultants leave.
Education reform across the region is ambitious and well funded. What is often missing is shared, comparable evidence on whether institutions are improving, and why. EduGov is convening a think-tank that brings quality-assurance and ranking specialists, international development consultancies and senior regional experts together to close that gap.
System- and institution-level studies against international reference systems, built on a documented and repeatable method.
Results frameworks, baselines and evaluations for government and donor-funded reform, from design through to final evaluation.
Connecting quality-assurance, accreditation and global ranking criteria to KPIs that an institution can actually manage.
Short, decision-oriented briefs, indicator sets and diagnostic instruments for education leaders in MENA and the GCC.
The benchmarking and M&E design core: methodology, indicator architecture, evaluation instruments and implementation roadmaps.
Quality assurance, accreditation and ranking expertise, development-sector programme delivery, and in-country presence.
A joint team assembled around the client's question, one accountable lead, and a shared method and quality standard.
Founding partners are being confirmed. Consultancies and experts working in quality assurance, rankings or education M&E in the MENA region are welcome to start a conversation.
Talk to usThe same four-stage logic runs through a national benchmarking study and a single-institution diagnostic. The order matters: a baseline comes before indicators, and indicators come before priorities.
A disciplined baseline against selected peers and standards.
Indicators tied to decisions, not dashboards for their own sake.
Prioritised actions with institutional owners and checkpoints.
Training, handover and evidence that change was implemented.
Developed for Saudi Arabia's national TVET benchmarking study and adaptable to other educational and training institutions. Each pillar is assessed with structured comparison matrices and indicators, qualitative and quantitative evidence, and a gap analysis against leading practice that ends in practical improvement opportunities.
EduGov is newly incorporated in Ontario. Engagements marked Pre-incorporation were led by EduGov's Managing Director before the company was incorporated, several of them through Study In Canada HELP, an affiliated Ontario consultancy.
Phase 1 leadership study of Saudi education and training demand, aligned with Vision 2030 and the Human Capability Development Program: priority sectors, institutional fit, competitive context, partnership and entry models, and staged decision gates.
EduGov engagementAssessment of online and blended learning platforms, analytics capabilities and implementation options for training and economic-development initiatives; analysis of learner and platform data to support platform selection and adoption.
Pre-incorporationLed a 22-member international team on a Vision 2030-aligned benchmarking engagement. Designed the benchmarking architecture, evaluation instruments and mixed-method analytics comparing the Saudi system with five reference countries; set up M&E and knowledge-management mechanisms and ran knowledge-transfer workshops.
Pre-incorporationHelped develop a centre of excellence in hybrid learning for Baghdad's TVET authority, designing its ecosystem and service model, including a rule-based online service portal for the technical training centres it supports. Converted technical curricula into performance-based, LMS-ready learning materials and built capacity-development programmes for educators and instructional designers.
Pre-incorporationComparative, organisational and stakeholder input to TVET governance and institutional-development planning in a rapidly changing operating environment.
Pre-incorporationTwenty-one years designing and teaching computing and IT curricula, implementing outcome-based learning and knowledge-management practice, and leading newcomer-access initiatives; eleven years teaching data mining, software quality and technology project management at McMaster.
Pre-incorporationEduGov works as a partner firm, through a senior expert placed inside your team, or directly for the institution. Scope, responsibilities, IP and fees are agreed per assignment.
EduGov joins your bid or project as partner or subcontractor and supplies the benchmarking, M&E and implementation component.
EduGov places a named senior expert on your team as methodology lead or team leader, working under your client relationship and contracting.
Ministries, educational and training institutions, and development agencies can commission EduGov directly.
A short, tightly scoped assignment that shows value quickly and sets up longer work.
Units in scope, reference standards, intended use of findings, access to evidence.
Peer and standards comparison on selected indicators.
Maturity view, material gaps, quick wins and risks.
Leadership workshop and an improvement roadmap the institution owns.
Outputs: evidence brief · KPI and maturity map · prioritised roadmap · leadership debrief
EduGov keeps a small senior core and assembles multidisciplinary teams around each assignment, drawing on the Think-Tank network, specialist researchers and in-country partners. Its leadership has managed teams of more than 20 international consultants on national-scale work.
EduGov is led by Managing Director Ali H. Cheaib, who brings more than 30 years across higher education, technology and international consulting. That record includes Saudi Arabia's national TVET benchmarking for TVTC, World Bank-supported and WUSC programmes in Iraq, TVET governance work in Libya, and 21 years of academic leadership at Mohawk College.
The firm's grounding in human and organisational systems shapes how it treats institutions: as systems that have to learn, not only comply. Benchmarks and indicators are designed to be owned and used by the client's own people once the engagement ends.
Tell us about the institution, programme or bid you have in mind. EduGov is based in Ontario and regularly meets clients and partners in Gulf and UK working hours.
Ancaster (Hamilton), Ontario, Canada
Serving the MENA region and the GCC