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By: Athar Osama, Adil Najam, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Christopher King
Available at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7260/full/461038a.html
In 2002, Pakistan began an ambitious overhaul of its higher-education system. The successes and failures of the experience hold lessons for other countries, say Athar Osama and co-authors.
After decades of neglect, in 2002 Pakistan set out to dramatically reform its higher-education system. The reforms […]

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Nature 461, 11-12 (3 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/461011b; Published online 2 September 2009
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Massive funding for Pakistan’s ailing universities holds many lessons for other developing nations.
 
Eight years ago, a task force advising Pakistan’s former military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, laid out a bold plan to revitalize the country’s moribund research system: initiate a fivefold increase […]

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By: Athar Osama
3 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Muslim countries need good quality institutions to motivate researchers, argues Athar Osama.
Describing scientific productivity in the 57 countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as abysmal is perhaps an understatement. More than 1.5 billion Muslims living across the Islamic world — about a quarter of the world’s population […]

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By: Munir Nayfeh
3 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Muslim countries should harness their huge diaspora and support collaboration between their expatriate and local scientists, says Munir Nayfeh.
In the last 50 years, huge numbers of intellectuals have migrated from the Muslim world to industrialised countries. Studies estimate the number is almost 500,000 from the Arab world alone, comprising a […]

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[SciDev.Net published a spotlight on Science in OIC countries in October 2007. The introduction and articles are being pasted below. The complete coverage is available at: http://www.scidev.net/islamic_science] 
The Golden Age of Islam came to a halt in the thirteenth century with the Mongol invasion of much of Asia and Middle East. Since then, the lands that constitute the Muslim world […]

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By: Athar Osama
Over the last several years of the current government, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has funded thousands of scholarships and fellowships for Pakistanis to do PhD and Post-Doctoral work both at home and abroad. Almost simultaneously, it has also instituted an ambitious Foreign Faculty Hiring Program (FFHP) to attract expatriate Pakistanis working […]

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