Lamis deek biography of albert einstein
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A Comparative Assessment of Higher Education Financing in Six Arab Countries
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
El-Araby, Ashraf
2011-01-01
This study analyses the policies for financing higher education in six Arab countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia. It assesses the adequacy of spending on higher education, the efficiency with which resources are utilized, and the equity implications of resource allocations. Based on six detailed case studies, this…
Curriculum Policy Seen Through High-Stakes Examinations: Mathematics and Biology in a Selection of School-Leaving Examinations from the Middle East and North Africa
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Valverde, Gilbert A.
2005-01-01
A study of curriculum goals set forth in school-leaving examinations in mathematics and biology from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia benchmarked against the French baccalaureate examinations. This investigation uncovers and contr
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Left Forum 2011
Capital’s War on Labor, Labor’s Civil Wars:
- Sponsored by: Haymarket Books; Labor Notes; Monthly Review Press; National Union of Healthcare Workers
- Ellen David Friedman, International Joint Center for Labor Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Labor Notes
- Jon Flanders, IAM/RWU
- Michael Yates, Monthly Review
- Sal Rosselli, NUHW
- Steve Early, Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
Solidarity Economy: Toward a Pluralist Socialist, Anti-capitalist, Post-capitalist unity?:
A Federal Jobs Program: A Green Jobs Program, What Shall We Demand:
A History of Struggle: Afghan Women:
A Marxist-Humanist Concept of Solidarity, The Movement From Practice is Itself a Form of Theory:
- Sponsored by: News & Letters
A New Cold War? US Strategy towards China and the Asia-Pacific:
A United Front Against the Right:
Abrupt Climate Change as the Long Emergency; Left Responses to the Energy,Food And Water Crises
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AKSOB Professors Awarded Major Academic Honor
Dozens of youth gathered on Beirut and Byblos campuses this month for the first day of the School of Arts and Sciences’ (SAS) five-day summer camps, open to high-school students from across Lebanon. The hall at the Adnan Kassar School of Business in Beirut was abuzz as the campers grabbed breakfast and searched for their subjects: chemistry, computer science, Arabic creative writing, philosophy, speech writing, and – debuting this year – physics and English creative writing.
All camps took place on the Beirut campus, except for computer science and chemistry, which were held on both campuses. At the end of the session, campers presented their final projects, and winners from each camp received 15-to-30-percent scholarships to study at LAU from SAS Dean Dr. Nashat Mansour.
“The objective of the summer camps is to expose high-school students to the university environment, and to give them the opportunity of experiencing something abou