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By: Athar Osama, Adil Najam, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Christopher King Available at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7260/full/461038a.html In 2002, Pakistan began an ambitious overhaul of its higher-education system. The successes and failures of the experience hold lessons for other countries, say Athar Osama and co-authors. After decades of neglect, in 2002 Pakistan set out to dramatically reform its higher-education [...]

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By: Riaz Hassan The Jakarta Post (Published on November 4, 2006) Is the Islamic world intellectually stagnating? One way to answer this is to ask how many world-class universities there are in Muslim countries. Riaz Hassan discusses the 2006 rankings of the world’s top 200 universities by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), announced last [...]

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