Governance in the Middle East

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. More than ever before, universities are being measured against not only national competitors but also rivals from the rest of the world. There are already a number of well-established global university rankings, which are generally based on research power. Then there is the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes project, a program run by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which in a 2012 pilot assessed the critical thinking and reasoning skills of 23,000 undergraduates across 17 countries in an attempt to discover what (if anything) students actually learn at university. Read more...