Description
This authoritative edited volume examines the drivers of higher education in the Gulf region. It offers insightful analyses and examines contemporary pedagogical, management, strategic, and relevant issues on quality education that confront higher education institutions.
Written by higher education specialists, curriculum developers, and policy makers from diverse international backgrounds, the book analyses issues affecting the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a particular focus on Oman and Saudi Arabia. It is divided into regional and non-regional drivers and considers drivers as potent enablers of a management system and educational structure at the intersection of quality education and quality management in higher education. Chapters include discussion of organisational, management, and policy issues including strategic innovation, internationalisation, quality assurance, and global rankings of higher education institutes. The book includes discussion of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning policies, practices, and programmes.
This book will serve as an essential reference for quality management in higher education institutions in the Gulf, and will be highly relevant reading for academics, researchers, and students of higher education, education management, and quality education in the Gulf region.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 – Regional Drivers of Quality Education
Chapter 1:
Improving the Quality of Corporate Identity Management among Higher Education
Institutions in the Gulf: A Conceptual Model
Bahtiar Mohamad and Ridwan Raji Adetunji
Chapter 2:
Pursuing Innovation as a Strategy for Improving Quality of Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities Facing GCC Countries
Seungah S. Lee and Cameron Mirza
Chapter 3:
A Critical Insight into the Gulf Higher Education Landscape: A National Innovation System Would Enhance the Role of Higher Education as an Effective Vehicle for Developing a Knowledge Economy
Malak Hamdan and Cameron Mirza
Chapter 4:
Quality Enhancement through Internationalisation at GCC Universities
Mariam Orkodashvili
Chapter 5:
Global Rankings as Yardstick of Quality of Higher Education: Voices from Gulf-based Academics
Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan and Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari
Chapter 6:
Quality Drivers in Gulf Higher Education: Conclusion
John McAlaney
Part 2 – Non-Regional Drivers of Quality Education
Chapter 7:
How Did the Largest Overseas Scholarship Programme in History Narrow the Gender Capabilities Gap in Saudi Arabia?
Abdul Ghaffar Mughal
Chapter 8:
Quality Prospects in Higher Education: A Case of Oman
Khuram Shahzad and Muhammad Rehan Shaukat
Chapter 9:
Funding Quality Higher Education in Oman
Mouza Said AlKalbani and Ahmad Bin Touq
Chapter 10:
How Internationalisation Facilitates the Development of National Quality Assurance of Higher Education in Mongolia and Oman
Bolorsaikhan Omboosuren and Orkhon Gantogtokh
Chapter 11:
An Empirical Investigation of Students' Opinion Regarding Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education in Saudi Arabian Universities
Anis Ur Rehman and Samina Fazli
Chapter 12:
Quality Drivers in Oman and Saudi Arabia: Conclusion
Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan
