Higher education exchange programme launched by OIC

By Ameen Amjad Khan. The Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced a higher education exchange programme that will facilitate scholarships, faculty exchanges, collaboration on distance learning methods and research projects among its 57 member countries. Implementation of the initiative has kicked off with an offer of 10 special scholarships from the University of Kuala Lumpur. Universities in Turkey and Pakistan are also poised to offer scholarships under the new programme. Mohamed Zaghoul, professional officer at the OIC’s Jeddah secretariat, told University World News that the exchange initiative “will streamline the scholarship offers by our member countries and facilitate regional and multilateral higher education cooperation.
“The programme will also address the faculty deficiency at different universities in the Islamic world through exchange of academic experts.”