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Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf - Globalization and Institutional Viability (Paperback)
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Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf - Globalization and Institutional Viability (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
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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, there are more than one hundred
public, semi-public, and private colleges and universities. Most of
these institutions are open to expatriates and national citizens; a
few offer gender integrated instruction; and the language of
instruction is much more likely to be in English than Arabic.
Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf explores the reasons
behind this dramatic growth. It examines the causes of the sharp
shift in educational practices and analyses how these new systems
of higher education are regulated, evaluating the extent to which
the new universities and colleges are improving quality.
Questioning whether these educational changes can be sustained, the
book explores how the new curricula and language policies are
aligned with official visions of the future. Written by leading
scholars in the field, it draws upon their considerable experiences
of teaching and doing research in the Arabian Gulf, as well as
their different disciplinary backgrounds (linguistics and
economics), to provide a holistic and historically informed account
of the emergence and viability of the Arabian Peninsula's higher
education revolutions. Offering a comprehensive, critical
assessment of education in the Gulf Arab states, this book
represents a significant contribution to the field and will be of
interest to students and scholars of Middle East and Gulf Studies,
and essential for those focused on higher education. The Open
Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203796139, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
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