/library/oar/handle/123456789/36595 2025-12-22T09:30:38Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/18899 Title: The impact of cultural and economic globalisation on the planning and function of higher education in North Africa and the Middle East Authors: Sabour, M'hammed Editors: Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah Abstract: Discusses the impact of globalization on higher education in the Arab World, particularly North Africa and the Middle East. The influence has been positive regarding the university's openness to the world and involvement in global intellectual and scientific activity and culture. However, globalization is also seen in the academia as tantamount to westernization and a source of domination and imperialism. 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/18898 Title: Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies : Volume 4, Issue 2 Abstract: Mediterranean Journal for Education Studies, Volume 4, No. 2, 1999. Special Issue : Higher Education in the Mediterranean edited by Sarah Guri-Rosenblit and Ronald G. Sultana Description: Contents Include : The First Selmun Seminar : June 1999 'Innovative strategies in meeting common educational challenges in the Mediterranean' (Conference Report) / Helen Phtiaka - Schooling as a Ritual Performance, 3rd Ed. by Peter McLaren (Book Review) / Helen Phtiaka - Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Malta edited by Godfrey Baldacchino and Peter Mayo (Book Review) / Joseph A. Buttigieg - The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms by Michel Chossudovsky (Book Review) / Daniel Schugurensky - Convergmce, Vol. XXX, Nos. 2/3, Special issue on the Transnational Dimension of Adult Education edited by Paolo Federighi (Book Review) / Ettore Gelpi - History of Education of Girls in Cyprus: A study of social and educational modernization of Cyprus by Panayiotis K. Persianis (Book Review) / Pella Calogiannakis - Adult Education and Democratic Citizenship II edited by Agnieszka Bron, John Field and Eva Kurantowitcz (Book Review) / Victor Soucek - Conference Announcements - Abstracts - In Memoriam (Michelle Kefala, 1945-1999) 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/18897 Title: Recent developments in the Portuguese higher education system Authors: Cabrito, Belmiro Abstract: Examines recent trends and developments in Portugal's higher education system, highlighting three trends: democratization (transforming the system from an enclave of the elite to one that allows mass access); diversification (offering two levels of higher education, including a non-university sector called the Polytechnic System), and privatization of the system (creating private universities and charging students fees at public universities). 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/18880 Title: Changing boundaries in Israeli higher education Authors: Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah Editors: Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah Abstract: This paper analyses the main changes that took place in the Israeli higher education system in the last decades, and accounts for the reconstruction of its external and internal boundaries. It also provides a conceptual framework for comparing national higher education systems from a comparative perspective. The paper examines the developments that characterise the restructuring of the Israeli higher education from an international comparative outlook, and relates to the following parameters: (a) expansion in size; (b) diversification of the higher education institutions; (c) the emergence of new academic fields of study; (d) the upgrade of many professions and occupations to an academic status; (e) the redefinition of graduate degrees; (f) the impact of the new information technologies on shaping academic environments; and (g) the influence of the globalisation and internationalisation trends on the development of national higher education systems. 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z