Globalization of education and the GCC

This chapter defines more precisely what the peoples mean by the globalization of higher education. It examines whether or not there are intensifying international flows of students and academic personnel in the present period, and whether or not higher educational institutions or practices are becoming more uniform throughout the world. The globalization of higher education has affected colleges and universities in most of the world's regions. Arab development would be successful if the governments of the region could establish institutions that recreated the conditions that promoted dynamic social and economic evolution in the West. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have adopted much of the pro-capitalist focus of the Arab Human Development Reports without the potentially revolutionary political critique. The leaders of every country in the region claim that they are trying to create a 'knowledge society" in which national citizens play a leading role.