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Transforming Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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- Title: Transforming Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Contributing to Social Progress and the New Economy
- Author(s): David Wagie, Warren Fox
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: The Learner
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review
- Keywords: Higher Education, Knowledge Based Society, Learner Centered Education, Transforming Higher Education, United Arab Emirates Education, United Arab Emirates Higher Education Institutions, United Arab Emirates Ministry of Higher Education
- Volume: 12
- Issue: 7
- Date: July 09, 2006
- ISSN: 1447-9494 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9540 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v12i07/47926
- Citation: Wagie, David, and Warren Fox. 2006. "Transforming Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Contributing to Social Progress and the New Economy." The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 12 (7): 277-286. doi:10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v12i07/47926.
- Extent: 10 pages
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Abstract
Since its founding in 1971, the UAE rapidly modernized its economy and infrastructure. Now it is transforming its higher education system to be competitive in the 21st century knowledge-based economy.
