Languages & Social Policy Perspectives on Higher Education in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
Languages & Social Policy Perspectives on Higher Education in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
Moderator
Professor Abdelfattah Ezzine
Universitary Institute of Scientific Research, Mohamed V University & President Espace Médiation, Morocco
Rapporteur
Dr. Anji Ben Hamed
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Towards an Integrated Model of the Sustainable University: A Case Study of Qassim University
Professor Abdullah Al-Beraidi
Chair of Executive Committee, Sustainable Development Center, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
Role of Media Literacy in Teaching English Classes at departments of English at the Libyan universities in Post-Pandemic Coronavirus
Dr. Youssif Zaghwani Omar
Chair and Associate Professor, European and Asian Languages, Faculty of Languages, University of Benghazi, Libya
Higher Education In MENA: A Social Policy Challenge
Dr. Abdulraouf M. Adam
Director, Darfur Training Committee, UK
The Future of Higher Education in MENA towards achieving Agenda 2030
مستقبل التعليم العالي في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا نحو تحقيق أجندة الأمم المتحدة 2030
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE
21-22 February 2021
The mission of the MEKEI research institute is to use research and education to help transform the countries of the Middle East and North Africa to advanced, knowledge-based societies led by sustainable innovation and social advance. Many consider the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as one of the most important emerging parts of the world economy in the 21st century. MENA is strategically vital as it produces the majority of the world’s oil. However, despite the region’s oil, most MENA countries score lower on Human Development Index (HDI) world ranking, with GDP, productivity and investment rates well below the global average. It is, therefore, becoming widely accepted that the dominant economic model of the region – based on the public sector, oil incomes and workers’ remittances – is not up to the challenges of modern globalisation and the needs of advanced knowledge-based societies. Given the apparently contradictory needs of economic growth and environmental conservation, it comes as no surprise that knowledge management, innovation and sustainable development (SD) have had such a powerful influence in contemporary discussions on the future of the region.
