ERIC Number: EJ830055
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Apr
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1353-8322
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Meeting the Challenge: Quality Systems in Private Higher Education in Kuwait
Al-Atiqi, Imad M.; Alharbi, Lafi M.
Quality in Higher Education, v15 n1 p5-16 Apr 2009
In Kuwait, as in other rapidly-developing higher education systems, one major area of concern is ensuring the quality of education offered by private providers. This paper briefly reviews the history of the development of higher education in Kuwait since its inception in 1936. It considers various quality systems currently in place in other countries in the Gulf States in order to locate its own quality system within other local practices. It then provides a case study of how Kuwait has developed a system of quality management of the country's private higher education sector. It is hoped that this will provide others who face this issue with a useful model of how to cope with this recent development worldwide. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Private Education, Educational History, Case Studies, Quality Control, Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kuwait
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