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Missions Impossible - Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (Hardcover)
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Missions Impossible - Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (Hardcover)
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None of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique
either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same
pathologies-insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble
contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill
formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive
structures, weak institutional autonomy, and co-optation into the
political order. But, it may be that the concentration of these
pathologies and their depth is what sets the Arab world apart.
Missions Impossible seeks to explain the process of policymaking in
higher education in the Arab world, a process that is shaped by the
region's politics of autocratic rule. Higher education in the Arab
world is directly linked to crises in economic growth, social
inequality and, as a result, regime survival. If unsuccessful,
higher education could be the catalyst to regime collapse. If
successful, it could be the catalyst to sustained growth and
innovation-but that, too, could unleash forces that the region's
autocrats are unable to control. Leaders are risk-averse and
therefore implement policies that tame the universities politically
but in the process sap their capabilities for innovation and
knowledge creation. The result is sub-optimal and, argues John
Waterbury in this thought-provoking study, unsustainable.
Skillfully integrating international debates on higher education
with rich and empirically informed analysis of the governance and
finance of higher education in the Arab world today, Missions
Impossible explores and dissects the manifold dilemmas that lie at
the heart of educational reform and examines possible paths
forward.
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