Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Badran, Adnan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Baydoun, Elias (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hillman, John R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Higher education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Management-Study and teaching.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Management Education.

This book focuses on two crucial issues that need to be addressed as a matter of urgency by universities in the Arab region, namely (a) conducting independent assessments of the quality of their teaching, research, administration, governance, and planning; and (b) determining the relevance of their...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1.Introduction
• 2. Quality Assurance and Relevance in Academia: A Review
• 3.Indicators of Institutional and Program Ranking of Universities in the Arab World
• 4. Reform of Higher Education in the Arab World. John Waterbury
• 5.Is there More to Quality Assurance than Quality?
• 6. Transnational Educational Networks of Excellence based on Quality, Accreditation, and Recognition Management
• 7. Quality Assurance in the Arab Region in the Era of Customization: Where do we Stand in terms of Relevance?
• 8. The Importance of Safeguarding Functional Independence in External Quality-Assurance Decision-Making Activities
• 9. Graduate Education for the 21st Century University: Ensuring Quality through Relevance
• 10. Industry-driven Research in the Arab World: A Way Forward
• 11. Quality Assurance for Sustainable Development: Toward the Revision of the Arab Convention on Recognition of HED Diplomas and Certificates
• 12. The Diploma Supplement as a Tool for Quality Assurance and Relevance
• 13. Digital Transformation and Quality, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Arab Universities
• 14. On the Quality Assurance of Faculty Members
• 15. Quality Assurance for Competence-Based Higher Education: Context of Jordan
• 16. Bibliometric Analysis of Research Output in the Faculty of Medicine at the American University of Beirut: Correlation with Medical Schools in the USA
• 17. Introducing Quality Assurance in Algerian Higher Education: the Case of the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene
• 18. Quality Assurance Agencies in the Maghreb Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
• 19. Unified National Medical Assessment: An Approach towards Meeting the Needs of Population during Syrian Crisis. - 20. Higher Education Relevance in Post-War Syria. .