Fertile Ground
The Future of Higher Education in the Arab World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Anderson (0000-0003-2574-5562) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 771-785 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2012.0060 |
| OpenAlex | W72390859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
In some respects, on the morrow of the Arab Spring of 2011, the future of higher education in the Arab world could not be brighter—though perhaps only because the present is so dim. Decades of authoritarian rule, with its debilitating limitations on academic freedom, underinvestment in public institutions, and populist open enrollment policies all contributed to weakening the quality of the research universities in the region. The more recent appearance of investment in vanity projects--including branch campuses of US universities--on the part of both governments and private investors, is further complicating the economics of higher education in the region, creating perverse patterns in faculty salaries and student tuitions without producing substantial research or education of any quality. That said, the appearance of even moderately more open, accountable, and transparent regimes will provide significant opportunities for innovation in the Arab world
Academic freedom · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Investment (military) · Political science · Quality (philosophy) · Global Education Systems and Policies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |