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Nature Article on Pakistan’s Higher Education Reform Experiment

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Funding Science · Universities · Higher Education · Scientific Research · Public Policy

Islamic World Faces Intellectual Stagnation

August 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

By: Riaz Hassan
The Jakarta Post (Published on November 4, 2006)
Is the Islamic world intellectually stagnating? One way to answer this is to ask how many world-class universities there are in Muslim countries. Riaz Hassan discusses the 2006 rankings of the world’s top 200 universities by the Times Higher Education Supplement
(THES), announced last week, show the […]

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Tags: Universities · OIC Member Countries · Scientific Research