Higher education revolutions in the Gulf : globalization and institutional viability

Higher education revolutions in the Gulf globalization and institutional viability

Over the past quarter century, the people of the Arabian Peninsula have witnessed a revolutionary transformation in higher education. In 1990, there were fewer than ten public universities that offered their Arabic-language curricula in sex-segregated settings to national citizens only. In 2015, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Badry, Fatima, author (author), Willoughby, John, 1949- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Taylor & Francis 2016
2016.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 24.
Materias:
Gulf Cooperation Council.
Education, Higher > Persian Gulf Region.
Educational change > Persian Gulf Region.
Education and globalization > Persian Gulf Region.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the political and socio-economic emergence of the Arabian Gulf
  • The global expansion of higher education : alternative perspectives
  • Globalization of education and the GCC
  • The multi-model approach to privatization : questions of sustainability
  • GCC public universities : growing pains
  • Assessing quality : adopting western standards of accreditation
  • Reforming higher education in Saudi Arabia : reasons for optimism
  • Arabic in higher education : questions of national identity and pragmatism
  • Higher education revolutions : short term success vs long term viability.

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