Failure of George Mason University's Persian Gulf Campus Sparks Concern

Autor/in	Mills, Andrew
Titel	Failure of George Mason University's Persian Gulf Campus Sparks Concern
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 27, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Indo European Languages; Social Studies; College Administration; Teacher Education; Universities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Indoeuropäisch; Gemeinschaftskunde; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; University; Universität
Abstract	Late last month, when George Mason University's campus in the Persian Gulf emirate of Ras al Khaymah became the first American educational venture in the region to collapse, its administrators immediately blamed the international economic meltdown. In a region whose higher-education scene is quickly gaining a reputation for being as hazardous as it may be lucrative, is George Mason's failure the beginning of the end for American-style higher education in the petrodollar-rich countries of the Middle East? "Of course there is still a demand for American and other international higher education here," says Ayoub Kazim, executive director of Dubai's Knowledge Village and International Academic City, which are home to dozens of foreign-university operations. "But we have to differentiate between what happened at George Mason and what's happening everywhere else. The various models, the approaches, are very different." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10