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Higher Education in the Arab World Government and Governance
Higher Education in the Arab World
Adnan Badran Chief Editor Elias Baydoun John R. Hillman •
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Higher Education in the Arab World Government and Governance
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Editors Adnan Badran Chief Editor Department of Basic Sciences University of Petra Amman, Jordan
Elias Baydoun Department of Biology American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
John R. Hillman James Hutton Institute Dundee, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-58152-7 ISBN 978-3-030-58153-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58153-4
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Introduction
This book is the fourth of the series on higher education in the Arab world produced by the Arab Academy of Sciences (AAS) and published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The previous three books (Universities in Arab Countries: An Urgent Need for Change; Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World; and Higher Education in the Arab World: Building a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) all refer briefly to interactions with governments but here the focus is exclusively on the processes and aims of governance, primarily in universities and also in the functioning of governments particularly in respect of higher education. The prevailing social and economic problems facing the Arab world were detailed in these previous volumes, and several years ago the AAS came to the conclusion that the universities represent the most promising, peaceful, and efficient route for Arab countries to participate fully in the global knowledge ec
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