The Transformation of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Issues, Implications, and Intercultural Dimensions*

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“…was established in 1981, and comprises the governments of the states of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The countries in the GCC are predominantly Islamic, and they share a common cultural and historical background (2). Another shared trait is their economic reliance on expatriate workforces (3), estimated at 48% of the total regional population of 53 million (4,5).…”

Toward a postcolonial securities critique of higher education leadership: globalization as a recolonization in developing countries like the UAE

“…The country is undergoing a significant nation-building transition towards a highly modernized Arab state, whose evolution relies more heavily than its neighbors on expatriate labor including professionals to help build the higher education system with an estimated population just over nine million of which 87 percent was expatriate in 2014 (Arabianbusiness.com, 2014). However, the cost in cultural security terms is a neocolonisation that Kirk and Napier (2009) discuss. There are also many pressures issuing from the international level in all sectors that originate in external pressures of globalisation, demands made to participate in regional and international organizations, and the location of the UAE at the center of a geo-political region with resources desired by many large and powerful countries, and political tensions and violence in the region that bring many external forces and entities and which draw local organizations and policies into their sphere of influence.…”

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“…Ten kilometers from Old Muscat the large campus of Sultan Qaboos University is located in a development area. There are several articles on the transformation of higher education in the GCC countries at region-level (Davidson, 2010;Nour, 2013;Romani, 2009) and at state-level: Kuwait (Al-Atiqi & Alharbi, 2009;Wiseman & Alromi, 2003), Bahrain (Karolak, 2012), Qatar (Khodr, 2011;Powell, 2012;Powell, 2014), United Arab Emirates (Kirk & Napier, 2009;Wilkins, 2010), and Oman (Al-Lamki, 2006;Donn & Issan, 2007).…”