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By Larry Smith, Abdulrahman Abouammoh
This e-book presents the 1st academically rigorous description and significant research of the better schooling procedure within the country of Saudi Arabia, and of the imaginative and prescient, concepts and coverage imperatives for the long run improvement of Saudi universities. the govt. of Saudi Arabia has famous in either coverage and perform the need of constructing its collage process to world-class regular. considerably expanding entry and participation in greater schooling throughout a number conventional and non-traditional disciplines is at once appropriate to the longer term social and fiscal progress of the rustic. This e-book addresses the best way Saudi Arabia is relocating to advance a high quality collage method that balances the necessity for college kids to realize the data, abilities and ‘ways of doing’ essential to function successfully at the global degree whereas concurrently holding and demonstrating the basic values of the Islamic faith and tradition.
The e-book offers an outline and demanding research of the main elements of the Saudi greater schooling method, and of system-level responses to the demanding situations and possibilities dealing with Saudi universities. it really is written through a group of Saudi teachers and authors of overseas status from non-Saudi universities for you to supply either inner and exterior views on all matters and to put info and ideas within the context of the overseas greater schooling scene.
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Research, in its various permutations, earns the most emphasis, not only because it is relatively easily measured but also because it tends to have the highest prestige. Universities worldwide want to be research intensive, and the most respected and top ranking universities are research focused. These two factors have been a powerful force for reinforcing the supremacy of research both in the rankings and in the global hierarchy. Saudi Arabia in the Rankings As will be analysed in the following sections, Saudi Arabia has, over time, not done particularly well in the rankings.
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It is chaired by the Vice-President for Graduate Studies and Research Affairs in the university. Members of the Scientific Council include representatives from each of the academic departments or colleges and academic staff with specialised research and scientific knowledge and skill (the number of which are limited). 3. College or Department Councils, which deal with the specialised academic programmes, and with staff and students at the college and department levels. 3 Governance in Saudi Higher Education 31 Decisions made by College or Department Councils are generally in the form of recommendations which must be submitted to the Scientific Council and/or the University Council for approval.