| Description |
1 online resource (155 pages) |
| Series |
Gulf Studies Series |
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Gulf studies.
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| Contents |
9783959940139; 9783959940139; Half_Title; Title; Copyright; 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 â#x80;#x9C;Workâ#x80;#x9D;: Georgetown Universityâ#x80;#x99;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 |
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7 The Health of Nations: The Evolution and Structure of Public HealthHigher Education in the GCC8 Science and Engineering Education in the GCC:Challenges and Transformations; 9 Afterword: State-Society Dialogues in the GCC Knowledge Economy; About the Contributors; Index |
| 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._x000B_ 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Arab countries
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
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Arab countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa
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| ISBN |
9783959940139 |
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3959940130 |
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