Iraqi Universities Reach a Crossroads

Autor/in	Lindsey, Ursula
Titel	Iraqi Universities Reach a Crossroads
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Scholarship; Scientific Research; Sanctions; Foreign Countries; Scholarships; Graduate Students; Study Abroad; National Security; Budgets; Higher Education; Partnerships in Education; Educational Change; Social Change; Strategic Planning; Politics; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Iraq + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarships; Stipendium; Sanction; Sanktion; Ausland; Scholarship; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Finanzhaushalt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Bildungsreform; Sozialer Wandel; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Politik; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Irak
Abstract	Eight years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and a few months after the withdrawal of the military forces from the country, Iraq's universities, devastated by years of dictatorship, sanctions, and war, are still struggling to recover. The security situation has improved since the deadly, dark days of 2006 and 2007, when the country teetered on the brink of sectarian war, hundreds of professors were assassinated, and thousands more fled the country. Today some of those refugee scholars have returned. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has a bigger budget and new, ambitious plans. Iraqi universities are looking to the outside world, hoping that international partnerships will help them reform their curricula and retrain their staffs. The government is investing more in public scholarship programs to send thousands of graduate students to study abroad and make up the country's new teaching cadres. On the other hand, Iraqi universities remain highly centralized, politicized, and in need of systemic reform. The government cites ambitious plans for reforming the country's war-ravaged system, but professors say sectarian politics may get in the way. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10