Middle East education gains will not translate to jobs
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Subject
The state of higher education and employment.
Significance
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-16 published in January for the first time a list of the top fifteen universities in the Arab world. The publication has combined with the listing of the first QS World University Rankings on the Arab Region. Most Middle East and North Africa (MENA) governments have high youth unemployment, and quality education is viewed as a crucial step to ease it.
Impacts
- Bahrain's financial crisis is already fuelling concerns that standards at the University of Bahrain are dropping.
- Yet, even in the richer states, such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, cheap oil is likely to cut funding for education.
- Meanwhile, Gulf employment prospects are reducing as the private sector is small and cheap oil is restricting government jobs and spending.
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