Article: Arab Nations Face Obstacles without Rankings

An article in University World News reports on a recently published report through the Institute of International Education’s Center for Academic Mobility Research entitled: Higher Education Classification in the Middle East and North Africa: A Pilot Study. The report was supported by Carnegie Corporation and produced in partnership with the Lebanese Association of Educational Studies in Beirut. According to the report, "the rapid expansion of higher education in the region as new domestic institutions and branch campuses of overseas institutions emerge has underlined the need for a classification system." As Rajika Bhandari, one of the authors of the report, notes: "Having more comparable information such as that provided by our study will lead to a deeper and more transparent understanding of the wide range of institutions in the Arab world and how best to engage with them at a national, regional and global level."

To read the full article, please visit: www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20120321165129709. For more information on Higher Education Classification in the Middle East and North Africa and to purchase a copy of the report, please visit: www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Publications-and-Reports/IIE-Bookstore/MENA-Institutional-Classification-Study.

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