Higher education investment in the Arab States of the Gulf : strategies for excellence and diversity / edited by Dale F. Eikelman and Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eickelman, Dale F., 1942- editor.

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa, editor.

Series:

Gulf Research Centre book series.

Gulf Research Centre book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Arab countries.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2017.

Summary:

Over the last half-century, the GCC states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also to come to terms with tradition.<br><br>These pressure points are examined here in a number of comparative studies, and cover among other topics: higher education as soft power to promote regional or global influence, intense reliance on foreign instructors, citizen entitlements, badu and hadar divisions, gender separation, different visions of language of instruction, marginalization of foreign students and faculty outside work, branch campuses of foreign universities.<br><br>Despite efforts to train and employ nationals, the vast majority of health workers remain non-local, and major challenges remain in fields such as science and technology. Expenditure has not always led to the effective reform of underperforming educational systems, and institutions often fall short of their world-class aspirations.<br><br>The studies in this book explore ways of making institutions better realise the balance between global and local.

Contents:

9783959940139

9783959940139

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: GCC Higher Education Comes of Age

1 Building Universities that Lead: The Arabian Peninsula

2 Western and Islamic Models of Higher Education inSaudi Arabia and Iran

3 Higher Education and the Changing Aspirations ofWomen in Saudi Arabia

4 Making a Branch Campus "Work": Georgetown University'sSchool of Foreign Service in Qatar

5 Journalism and Scholarship: How One Learns in Qatar

6 Education as Public Diplomacy: The Soft PowerPotential of Qatar Higher Education

7 The Health of Nations: The Evolution and Structure of Public HealthHigher Education in the GCC

8 Science and Engineering Education in the GCC:Challenges and Transformations

9 Afterword: State-Society Dialogues in the GCC Knowledge Economy

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Aug 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-95994-013-0

OCLC:

1021804645