The Future Of Higher Education In The Middle East And Africa

Author : Habib M. Fardoun,Kevin J. Downing,Mandy Mok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319646565

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The Future of Higher Education in the Middle East and Africa by Habib M. Fardoun,Kevin J. Downing,Mandy Mok Pdf

This book addresses some of the challenges posed by the globalization of higher education. It examines the emergence and resulting challenges of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) and of the decision to use English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) as part of a strategic policy of internationalization. It looks at survival challenges caused by globalization and expansion, the diversity challenge, the concept of marginality and how marginality can lead to creativity, teaching and encouraging entrepreneurialism, the tools needed for internationalizing higher education in developing countries, innovative approaches, the intelligent use of technology, and finally, the value of non-constraint engagement in driving teaching and course quality improvements. The expansion of higher education and the increasingly international body of students and staff continue to inspire and drive the development of global higher education systems. Whilst these systems began locally, many are now engaging with the challenges of retaining their local flavour whilst embracing the march of globalisation. The challenge is to find local solutions that also meet the requirements of the rapid development of what might be termed the ‘massification’ of international higher education. This book reflects these contemporary challenges through its variety of topics taken from countries as diverse as Hong Kong, Panama, South Africa, USA and Saudi Arabia. The topics are as diverse as some of the local solutions but each chapter represents a response to a rapidly changing global landscape.

Author : Yew Meng Lai,Abdul Razak Ahmad,Chang Da Wan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811010569

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Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa by Yew Meng Lai,Abdul Razak Ahmad,Chang Da Wan Pdf

This book explores the prospects for higher education development in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Adopting a South-South perspective (from the viewpoint of a developing country), it seeks to promote a deeper understanding of this colourful and highly diverse, yet volatile region. As such, it examines six selected MENA countries that serve as case studies for identifying the gaps and challenges as well as their potentials in terms of higher education development. Based on expert interviews and focus-group discussions with more than 85 individuals across the six countries and complemented by related facts and figures from both international and national documents, it presents an in-depth discussion and analysis of the countries’ respective political, security, and economic situations. These serve as preconditions for the cultivation of an environment conducive to facilitating the advancement of higher education. It also provides a critical overview of higher education in these countries, notably in terms of the current national system, legislative framework, accreditation, quality assurance, recognition concerns, and other critical issues that enable and/or constrain the development of their respective higher education sectors, and that of the region, as a whole.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641464344

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The liberal Arts and the future of higher education in the Middle East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Osman Z. Barnawi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000644111

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The Past, Present, and Future of Higher Education in the Arabian Gulf Region by Awad Ibrahim,Osman Z. Barnawi Pdf

This edited volume contributes a novel understanding of the past, present and future of higher education across the six countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Against the backdrop of intense political, ideological and epistemological disruptions across the Arabian Gulf Region over the last two decades, this volume adopts critical comparative perspectives in order to chart the history, present-day and future realities of higher education in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. By focusing on dynamics relating to neoliberalism, and using the notions of ‘tensionality’ and ‘locality’ to situate topics such as curricula, policies, practices, the volume engages with current discourses, controversies and themes such as the internationalization and marketization of higher education in these countries. In doing so, the book offers a theoretical framework to enable greater understanding of the contemporary functioning of higher education in the Arabian Gulf Region. This text will benefit scholars, academics and students in the fields of higher education and international and comparative education more broadly. Those involved with educational policy and politics, and Middle Eastern studies in general, will also benefit from this volume.

Author : Mahmoud Abdulwahed,Mazen O. Hasna,Jeffrey E. Froyd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319153230

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Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa by Mahmoud Abdulwahed,Mazen O. Hasna,Jeffrey E. Froyd Pdf

This book provides a collection of the latest advances in engineering education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sheds insights for future development. It is one of the first books to address the lack of comprehensive literature on undergraduate engineering curricula, and stimulates intellectual and critical discourse on the next wave of engineering innovation and education in the MENA region. The authors look at recent innovations through the lens of four topics: learning and teaching, curriculum development, assessment and accreditation, and challenges and sustainability. They also include analyses of pedagogical innovations, models for transforming engineering education, and methods for using technological innovations to enhance active learning. Engineering education topics on issues such as construction, health and safety, urban design, and environmental engineering in the context of the MENA region are covered in further detail. The book concludes with practical recommendations for implementations in engineering education. This is an ideal book for engineering education academics, engineering curriculum developers and accreditation specialists, and deans and leaders in engineering education.

Author : Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan,John McAlaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003824824

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Challenges and Reforms in Gulf Higher Education by Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan,John McAlaney Pdf

This edited volume explores the educational reforms and challenges in higher education in the Gulf countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring a truly global spread of contributors and perspectives from countries such as Bahrain, India, Georgia, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, the book navigates experience-based and practice-linked research spectrum of the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education. It targets key challenges such as the move to online and distance learning, the impact of job-related stress, and the preparedness of institutional risk management. Using qualitative research, autoethnographic accounts, and case study findings, the book makes recommendations for reform implementation within higher education as well as discusses the wider socio-cultural and political landscape left by the pandemic in the Gulf region. Highlighting current trends and challenges based on empirical works of the authors, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and academics in the field of higher education, international and comparative education, and leadership strategy more specifically. Those involved with educational technology, education policy, and middle eastern studies will also find the book of value.

Author : Robert Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319467788

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English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Robert Kirkpatrick Pdf

This volume offers insights on English language education policies in Middle Eastern and North African countries, through state-of-the-art reports giving clear assessments of current policies and future trends, each expertly drafted by a specialist. Each chapter contains a general description of English education polices in the respective countries, and then expands on how the local English education policies play out in practice in the education system at all levels, in the curriculum, in teaching, and in teacher training. Essays cover issues such as the balance between English and the acquisition of the national language or the Arabic language, as well as political, cultural, economic and technical elements that strengthen or weaken the learning of English. This volume is essential reading for researchers, policy makers, and teacher trainers for its invaluable insights in the role of each of the stakeholders in the implementation of policies.

Author : Kevin Gray,Hassan Bashir,Stephen Keck
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498526012

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Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East by Kevin Gray,Hassan Bashir,Stephen Keck Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export. The history of the university reflects the decisive social transformations which have given definition and identity to both new nations and modern societies. In the post-war period, universities in the industrialized world underwent a radical shift. The mass expansion of higher education ensured that universities were no longer centers designed to train youth to assume the leadership positions held by previous generations. Instead universities were to become centers where job skills could be imparted and knowledge produced, refined and used in the newly emerging Cold War economies, and where students could develop the skills necessary for employment in a changing world. Rather than focusing on the refinement of future leaders, the task of the university became linked to the development of economically exploitable technical knowledge. A shift of comparable magnitude is now ongoing in the nature of higher education itself. Globalization has led to the growth of knowledge communities around the world, mirroring the rise of centers for global finance in previous decades. In the Middle East and Asia the demands of the knowledge-based economy have led to the opening of new indigenous universities and branch campuses and partnerships with established European and North American universities. Education City in Qatar, for instance, has received or been pledged more than 200 billion dollars since its inception. The growth of new indigenous universities has altered the traditional role of the university further, increasing the emphasis on courses which are close to the marketplace. These new partnerships have contributed to the creation of what is now referred to as the global university.

Author : Christopher Davidson,Peter Mackenzie
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780863568572

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Higher Education in the Gulf States by Christopher Davidson,Peter Mackenzie Pdf

Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In two generations the region has gone from having the Middle East's least educated population to boasting a younger generation whose educational achievements are approaching Oraginisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards. This unique study, with contributions by key decision makers, charts this dramatic development, exploring the challenges faced and placing accomplishments within the social, economic and political context of the region.

Author : Milton George,Sergio Saleem Scatolini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527545755

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Education and Society in the Middle East and North Africa by Milton George,Sergio Saleem Scatolini Pdf

In the past, the Middle East and the so-called Muslim world used to be beacons of learning and critical thought. Although historical variables—such as conquest, internal conflict, and colonization—demoted their position on the global stage, changes are now in the offing. In these interesting times, a growing number of educators, thinkers and visionaries are trying both to find and to generate new approaches to the past, present, and future of the region. This book is a collection of articles which reflect on various aspects related to education and society in the Middle East and North Africa (also known as the MENA region), their peoples and educational processes. It provides a platform for people to join the global conversation and to contribute to it with data which are relevant to regional concerns, research and practices. This is necessary because many of the theories and research findings which are still being used to understand the region were generated elsewhere and, despite their lack of regional representativeness, were generalized as the most trustworthy interpretive tools across the world. Hence, there is a need for the world to open up to the voices from the MENA region.

Author : Sameerah T. Saeed,Karwan H. Sherwani
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781802625554

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Middle East by Sameerah T. Saeed,Karwan H. Sherwani Pdf

An essential resource for institutional leaders across the Middle East, as well as those invested in the development of higher education in the region, this volume acts as a unique contribution for propelling the progress of higher education in the Middle East.

Author : Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali,Caroline Krafft
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781464812354

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Expectations and Aspirations by Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali,Caroline Krafft Pdf

Education, which has been at the heart of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s history and civilizations for centuries, has a large untapped potential to contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth. The region has invested heavily in education for decades, but it has not been able to reap the benefits of its investments. Despite a series of reforms, MENA has remained stuck in a low-learning, low-skills level. Expectations and Aspirations: A New Framework for Education in the Middle East and North Africa identifies four key sets of tensions that are holding back education in the region: credentials and skills, discipline and inquiry, control and autonomy, and tradition and modernity. These tensions are shaped by society and are reflected in classrooms. If they are not addressed, MENA will continue to operate at a level below its potential. This report outlines a new framework with a three-pronged approach that can help address these tensions and unleash the potential of education in MENA: • A concerted push for learning that starts early for all children regardless of background, with qualified and motivated educators, and that leverages technology, uses modern approaches, and monitors learning outcomes • A stronger pull for skills by all stakeholders in the labor market and society that involves coordinated multisystem reforms within and beyond the education system • A new pact for education at the national level with a unified vision, shared responsibilities, and accountabilities. Education is not just the responsibility of the education system—it is everyone’s business. The push, pull, and pact framework offers an opportunity for MENA to move forward to reclaim its heritage of a learned region and to meet the expectations and aspirations of its people. The current situation in MENA requires a renewed focus on education, not just as a national priority for economic growth and social development, but as a national emergency for stability, peace, and prosperity.

Author : Khalid Arar,Selahattin Turan,Sedat Gümüş,Abdellatif Sellami,Julia Mahfouz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003815679

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Demystifying Educational Leadership and Administration in the Middle East and North Africa by Khalid Arar,Selahattin Turan,Sedat Gümüş,Abdellatif Sellami,Julia Mahfouz Pdf

This volume explores how educational leadership and administration (ELA) is constructed in the Middle East and North African region (MENA), and charts the development of ELA as a discipline. Against the backdrop of rapid growth and interest in the educational restructuring, educational reforms, policy and leadership landscape of the region, chapters investigate issues concerned with the production and utilization of knowledge in the field, and analyse the future of ELA in relation to the educational policies and practices in MENA countries. Featuring a broad range of geographically dispersed specialist contributors involved in leadership, policy, and administration, the volume ultimately sheds light on this little-researched area of study to demystify common tropes and misunderstandings surrounding ELA in the MENA region. This book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with international and comparative education, higher education management, and education policy and politics more broadly.

Author : Ken E. Shaw
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0859895157

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Higher Education in the Gulf by Ken E. Shaw Pdf

This book will be of value to those in the West and in the Middle East with an interest in the contemporary state of the higher educational system in the region and in comparative education in general. It concentrates on the Gulf, but the problems of control, development, curriculum and purpose in higher education are general throughout the Middle East. Its contributors are mainly academics working in universities in the Gulf region. Higher Education in the Gulf stresses the need for engagement with the problems of the Gulf States as developing countries and the roles which practical, locally-based research can play in promoting balanced, self-reliant development. For too long, work in the West relating to the Gulf has concentrated on oil, military and political issues, and this book looks beyond these to the neglected areas of social, cultural and human capital aspects of modernisation. It is deliberately intended to suggest and promote research.

Author : Adriana Jaramillo,Moreno García Moreno G.,World Bank,Hafedh Zaafrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Benchmarking (Management)
ISBN : 061562264X

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Universities Through the Looking Glass by Adriana Jaramillo,Moreno García Moreno G.,World Bank,Hafedh Zaafrane Pdf

University governance reform has been on the agenda of governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for some time. In response to demands by those countries in the region currently engaged in governance reforms, a World Bank team based in Marseille, at the Center for Mediterranean Integration, carried out a university governance benchmarking exercise by profiling 41 universities in four countries of the region using a University Governance Screening Card. The results collected as part of this effort have laid the foundation for future systematic monitoring of university performance. This is a significant achievement that moves the region further toward the goal of improving accountability in service delivery and one which will become a cornerstone of the strategy for developing greater capacity to do evidence-based policy making related to higher education in MENA. -- Foreword p. [ix].