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Science Education in universities in the Muslim world: No longer contented to merely be bystanders!
July 2015
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Science Education in universities in the Muslim world: No longer contented to merely be bystanders!

July 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Dzulkifli Abdul Razak President, International Association of Universities (IAU) Creating a “radical shift” In attempting to dwell on some of the issues related to education in general, and science in particular, it is...
TaskForce Essay: Science Education in the Islamic World: A Snapshot of the Multilayered Role of Academies of Sciences and the Academe
July 2015
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TaskForce Essay: Science Education in the Islamic World: A Snapshot of the Multilayered Role of Academies of Sciences and the Academe

July 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Moneef R. Zou’bi Science Education: Why? Science education27 is currently viewed as inadequate in the developing and developed worlds. This was highlighted at the recent InterAcademy Panel (IAP) Science Education Programme...
Iran’s Science, Technology, and Innovation – A well kept secret
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Iran’s Science, Technology, and Innovation – A well kept secret

July 3rd, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Editorial Iran is civilisation that is several thousand years old. Some believe that what was once Persia was the cradle of civilisation. Many of early contributions of Muslim Scientists originating out of the House of Wisdom in...
The Iran I Saw
Innovation
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The Iran I Saw

July 2nd, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER There wasn’t much exceptional about my recent lunch out with a couple dozen young, aspiring entrepreneurs. It was a typical, crowded, buzzing, Nandos-like joint—good food cheap, easy to pull tables...
Creating a Persian Silicon Valley – Iran’s Emerging Innovation and Startup Eco-System
Entrepreneurship
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Creating a Persian Silicon Valley – Iran’s Emerging Innovation and Startup Eco-System

July 2nd, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Athar Osama Legend has it that that the seeds of what we know today as the Silicon Valley were laid at the Stanford University and the Stanford University Industrial Park when a Stanford Professor Frederick Terman who loaned...
Sharif University of Technology – Iran’s MIT redeemed
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Sharif University of Technology – Iran’s MIT redeemed

July 2nd, 2015 | by MuslimScience
“Bruce A. Wooley, a former Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University, has said that without a doubt the finest university in the world – in the world – preparing electrical...
TaskForce Essay: Are Muslim World’s Universities spreading a Culture of Science?
February 2015
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TaskForce Essay: Are Muslim World’s Universities spreading a Culture of Science?

June 19th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, FIAS President of Republic of Mauritius “Let us first consider what state of things is described by the word ‘Civilization’. Its true test lies in the fact that people living in it making bodily...
Task Force Essay: Incorporating IBSE in School Curriculum in Arab Countries: A New Approach
February 2015
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Task Force Essay: Incorporating IBSE in School Curriculum in Arab Countries: A New Approach

June 19th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Dato Ir. Lee Yee Cheong Chairman, ISTIC Governing Board   1.0   Introduction The decline in interest in science, engineering and technology (S.E.T) in the youth of both the developed and developing world has been a major...
Task Force Essay: Science Education in Universities in the Islamic  World
February 2015
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Task Force Essay: Science Education in Universities in the Islamic World

June 19th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Dr. El Tayeb Mustafa President, the Future University How is science taught in Muslim universities? What are the languages being used? What are the credentials and pedagogical competencies of the professors? What textbooks are...
Task Force Essay: Science Education in the United States:  Some Lessons for the Islamic World
February 2015
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Task Force Essay: Science Education in the United States: Some Lessons for the Islamic World

June 19th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Prof. Bruce Alberts My strong personal interest in science education began in the early 1980s.  At that time, my three children were young teenagers in the public schools of San Francisco, and I was a professor of...