New Article: Information Gap Hinders Coordination and Reform among Arab Universities

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An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on how a recently released report, "Classifying Higher Education Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa: A Pilot Study," attempts to develop a system for classifying higher education institutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The report, which was based on a survey carried out by the Institute of International Education and the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, with support from Carnegie Corporation, surveys higher education institutions in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates in order to provide a framework for a regional classification system. According to Rajika Bhandari, deputy vice president of research and evaluation at the Institute of International Education and one the report's authors, "We hope institutions in the region—the ones who responded and, most importantly, the ones that didn't—will really look at this information and start thinking about what types of institutional data they need to start collecting in order to be recognized."

To read the full article, please visit: http://chronicle.com/article/Information-Gap-Hinders/130093/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

To purchase the report or download the Executive Summary, please visit: www.iie.org/en/Research-and-Publications/Publications-and-Reports/IIE-Bookstore/MENA-Institutional-Classification-Study