The Regional Center of Quality and Excellence in Education is a significant initiative in international development of education by the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. RCQE comes within the general orientation of concentrating on issues of quality and excellence in education. RCQE is concerned with provision of high-quality services instead of concentrating merely on providing them.
RCQE is one of the category II centers under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The center is prominent due to the fact that it comes first in Saudi Arabia as an institute focusing and specializing on issues of quality and excellence in education. RCQE is also the first center in the world and the first center under the auspices of the UNESCO that is specialized in such issues.