Thanks for the invitation. I agree with the insightful views of the colleagues. In addition, the attached link may be useful.

Regards

https://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/higher-education/quality-relevance_en

Keep it align to the needs of the local labor market and at the same time comparable to international standards in order to compete globally. One issue in higher education is accommodating for the international diversity of students now accessing higher education. The latter highlights and offers solutions to the latter problem that I hope would he helpful for you.

Many thanks,

Debra

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Hi Dr. Salah 

To improve the quality of higher education should be increased the relationship between the universities of my country with other universities have high score in education 

i think the importance of the improving the quality of higher education can be Summarized by the attention of human resources and education support staff, which tehy are in the process of teaching and scientific research

Dear Dr. Salah,

I cited the following points for improving the quality of higher education from the attached article by Dr. Carol Nicoll (2012):

1. No country will maintain or improve quality in higher education simply by maintaining the status quo. We need to consider how to challenge and disrupt orthodoxies and complacency in the higher education sector in relation to quality.

2. No provider, whether a university or a private provider, will maintain or improve quality until every staff member, in particular individual academics, understands that they have a level of responsibility, a real accountability for the quality of the student experience and for student outcomes. It is not enough that there is an understanding of this accountability by the Vice-Chancellor, the Rector or the University Quality Manager.

3. And finally no quality assurance body or regulator will maintain or improve quality by relying only on compliance with, or assessment of, quality processes. As a sector we just tackle the task of measuring outcomes, even those which prove elusive, problematic and seemingly impossible to achieve consensus on.

Best Regards

Dear Dr. Salah ,

Also we can see the following attachment:

With my greetings

Thanks for the invitation. I agree with the insightful views of the colleagues. In addition, the attached link may be useful.

Regards

https://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/higher-education/quality-relevance_en

Dear Salah Mahdi Najim

Some suggestions to actually make the system better.

Make the curriculum Dynamic not Dogmatic:

The curriculum or the syllabus for students in our country in higher education is outdated in most cases. It is stale, dogmatic and teaches things that the world has moved on with. To infuse dynamism, you need the curriculum to be progressive in nature. People need to be given the option of doing multiple courses in the first year and allowed to choose what they want after the first semester or year. The spirit of curriculum should be projects driven not exams driven, it should be innovation driven and it should evolve not stay stagnated. Exams need to be there to measure but they should be complimented with incentives for innovation. The students should also be given the option to switch to other if they feel so or if they justify the basic criteria.

Make the Teachers feel worthy, pay them more:

The academic curriculum board, in most cases is filled with people above their 60’s and 70’s. With all due respect to them, I strongly feel that you need a bunch of younger professors in there to have that mix of experience and youth in the system. Very few among the young are actually in teaching for the sake of teaching. A graduating student earns more in an IT company than what a Lecturer or even a Assistant Professor earns in some colleges .

Industry Interaction a Placement Obligation:

One of the key pillars in growth in education is the level of industry interaction with the students. Companies should be sought out for such interactions, if they don’t agree to it, then the universities should use their advantage. When companies come for placements, there should be a basic qualification criteria for their eligibility for the placements.

Regards

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Dear Dr. Salah,

First of all, in order to improve the quality of higher education, we must try hard to improve the scientific background of teaching staff, give attention to the quality of scientific learning, cooperation with highly qualified international universities, continuous improvement of resources and issues in our way of teaching, practical experience, and the most important thing is to keep our humanity when we're dealing with our students and when we're dealing with each other.

Best Regards

Nibras

Prof. Al-Ammar: ''...the most important thing is to keep our humanity when we're dealing with our students and when we're dealing with each other.''

Dear Prof. Al-Ammar, I agree with you 100 percent. Great words! But, unfortunately, let me have serious doubts.

Best Regards

What are examples of coordination training ?

• Quality higher education requires, in addition to a focus of institutions, adequate academic training of teachers and low dependency on professors.
•  Teach students to critically analyze ideas and topics.
• Develop  students intelectual and thinking skills. 
•  Teach students to understand principles and generalizations.

Dear Salah Mahdi Najim

Thanks, for sharing interesting question, I think this is a good answer, that already published by DNA,

5 SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Answered by DNA

The response to my previous post on Steve Jobs has been overwhelming. The responses seeked suggestions, so I decided to actually provide suggestions to actually make the system better. In all fairness, the solutions are mere suggestions since implementation is a complex process. Here are mine:

Make the curriculum Dynamic not Dogmatic:

The curriculum or the syllabus for students in our country in higher education (mainly engineering colleges) is outdated in most cases. It is stale, dogmatic and teaches things that the world has moved on with. To infuse dynamism, you need the curriculum to be progressive in nature. People need to be given the option of doing multiple courses in the first year and allowed to choose what they want after the first semester or year. The spirit of curriculum should be projects driven not exams driven, it should be innovation driven and it should evolve not stay stagnated. Exams need to be there to measure but they should be complimented with incentives for innovation (say Final Exams should be 50% and the projects should be 50%). The projects should have independent people who judge them not just faculty in place.The students should also be given the option to switch over to other streams if they feel so or if they justify the basic criteria. When I mean streams, practically speaking it should be very easy within Engineering and slightly harder to shift to say a Commerce course (this is assuming it’s a full-fledged university with all these courses).For all this to happen, you need young and dynamic faculty sitting on the academic syllabus boards, that’s where the next issue pops up

Make the Teachers feel worthy, pay them more:

The academic curriculum board, in most cases is filled with people above their 60’s and 70’s. With all due respect to them, I strongly feel that you need a bunch of younger professors in there to have that mix of experience and youth in the system. The younger ones would be more in sync, more in line with the technological changes and the new age needs of the students in their years to come. The fact, however, is that most of the younger professors are either outcasts (from the IT factory) or are doing this job because they don’t have better things to do. Very few among the young are actually in teaching for the sake of teaching. The point is very simple; they are paid pittens in comparison with the rest. A graduating student earns more in an IT company than what a Lecturer or even a Assistant Professor earns in some colleges (despite the 6th Pay commission increase which covers only on the Government colleges). Once you start paying more, you get quality faculty in, you get people who actually want to teach and people who are worth the caliber of teaching. After this, you will have a scenario where you have quality young people who can actually give the 60’s and 70’s in the curriculum boards a run for their money and there wouldn’t be any excuses. So where would the money come in from?

Make the Private Institutes for profit, not non-profit:

This might sound like a ludicrous suggestion but if you think about it, it might make some sense. We all know that private colleges make money and they are run as large businesses. The solution, I feel, lies in making them take away the non profit status and make them competitive. Make them under direct competition with each other so that they can get fight it out openly rather that doing so under the carpet. We cant follow the English education system and yet sit in our holy grail of non profit, can we? Education is a business in some form, the more we hide behind it, and the more corruption would step in. If Educational institutes are using this business to improve their system, then let them do it, that’s how world class universities abroad work and that’s how we should work if we follow the colonial system. The best way forward is to make them “for” profit, taxable and it would increase capital for them as well as increase transparency for us.

Industry Interaction a Placement Obligation:

One of the key pillars in growth in education is the level of industry interaction with the students. Companies should be sought out for such interactions, if they don’t agree to it, then the universities should use their advantage. When companies come for placements, there should be a basic qualification criteria for their eligibility for the placements. For example, they should have contributed investment worth 2 to 4 lakhs (just example, this can vary up or down) in R and D with the university to be eligible to come to placement. Most of the companies would fall in line automatically since for them human capital is much more important than these meager sums of money. You think any IT company would care about a few lakhs when they are recruiting 600 to 1000 people? When you provide so much human(s) capital you think they would ignore it? Not a chance, this would make the university utilize its human potential to the hilt and also enhance its industry interaction numbers significantly. Eventually, this investment would enhance the learning experience of the student and make him want to give back to the institutes more once that person graduates

Use the power of the Alumni:

One of the most underrated potentials in Indian education system is the power of the Alumni. Barring the IIT’s and few other top institutes, the concept of Alumni networking is nonexistent. In an era where every Indian graduating is earning somewhere, alumni networks need to be very well intertwined with the university affairs. Alumni are very eager to give; just that a) they don’t know who to give b) they are worried about where the money would go. Once you establish a credible network which is transparent, it would give the avenue as well as the confidence for the alumni to contribute in terms of money or academic expertise

All of the above are just mere suggestions to tackle system that has numerous issues. These suggestions might not break the deadlock or create a revolution by any means but it can be something that can be incorporated. These suggestions might not be relevant to some. These suggestions might also sound far fetched but if it at least one of them adds value somewhere to the education system, then it’s worth it What is your opinion on this?

http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-5-suggestions-to-improve-the-higher-education-system-1602003

Regards,

Hi Saleh, 

I have found the attached interesting. 

Best, Farshad 

http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319329239

http://www.erjournal.ru/journals_n/1458849868.pdf

My dear colleagues,

Many thanks for your very interesting and valuable answers.

Best regards

SM Najim

Quality of education depends on

What are the key points that should be targeted to improve the quality of higher education in the developing countries?

Following points can be considered:

Dear Salah

Thank you to invite me to this question. for our country (Iraq) to development higher  education, we may put "Suitable man in suitable place"   , then all things will be come better 

Regards 

Dear Dr.Han Ping Fung,

Thank you for your important points.

Regards 

SM Najim

Dear Prof. Saeed Al Rashid,

Thank you for your response. You are absolutely right.

Regards

SM Najim

Thank you my dear colleagues for your appreciated participation.

Best regards

SM Najim

The curriculum, content, teaching methods, assessment standards , class management, learning environment and methods have all to be refurbished and improved

Education is nothing but the life bone of our existence . This applicable to every part of the human being of the world . Education should not be kept in isolation it is which this end education plays an important part every where in the entire world.

We  can not make our knowledge limited as due to technological & scientific development including electronic media the world has become a smaller place & our contacts remain with the outside agencies is a method of frequency of time.

It is with this aim of education we have to spread the knowledge with the help of electronic media,seminars,conferences , & such other modern trend we can certainly bring uniformity in our education.

With this very recently i have expressed my view in my publication under the captioned'' Education'' which i submit herewith for your perusal & also for our valued readers .

In my presentation i have expressed my views only . Which i feel is my personal opinion 

 Research facilities should be improved and encourage the  students attracted to take up research work more significantly without any problem.

1. Leave the paradigm that education is the government job and responsibility per se, start shifting to a new paradigm that education (especially higher education) is a precondition for our current and future development and prosperity.

2. Students have different interests and talents. Be able to identify and recognize their interest and talent and then channel them to a proper pathway in education. Don't let the students alone deciding on this matter, advice and guide them properly and adequately. For instance, many students are so good in math and natural sciences but end up in political science. Many students hate numbers and calculations but they admitted into accounting program.

3. People are created with different abilities. Recognize these differences since the students at secondary school level. Those with good academics prospect can enter the universities, but those with weak academics can be trained in vocational colleges to be professional workers to support the industries. This has been practiced by developed nations, for instance Germany.

Just to name some key points on how to improve HE in developing countries which is now actually very much improved...

الاهتمام بالعلم والعلماء

مناهج رصينه تتماشى مع التطور العلمي وكوادر مدربة

Interest in the curriculum in line with the level of student

Develop ethical and moral values with adding compulsory courses of Moral Sciences in all disciplines.