Manpower and educational shortages in the Arab world: An interim strategy

This paper sets out the problems faced by the Arab countries in trying to meet their pressing demands for skilled manpower. The first part of the paper, therefore, describes the inadequacies in the existing educational infrastructure, e.g. inadequacies in quantity, quality, content and distribution...

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Published inWorld development Vol. 9; no. 7; pp. 637 - 655
Main Author Paul Shaw, R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, Eng Elsevier Ltd 01.07.1981
Elsevier
Pergamon Press
SeriesWorld Development
Subjects
Arab states
Arab/Arabs/Arabia/Arabian/Arabic
Education
Education/Educational/Educator/ Educators/ Educationally
Manpower
Skilled labor
Supply and demand
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Summary:This paper sets out the problems faced by the Arab countries in trying to meet their pressing demands for skilled manpower. The first part of the paper, therefore, describes the inadequacies in the existing educational infrastructure, e.g. inadequacies in quantity, quality, content and distribution of education as well as the ‘brain drain’. This discussion lays the groundwork for the author's interim strategy for reducing shortages of crucial skills by: (i) drawing on the skills, education and know-how of currently employed expatriates to teach on-site training courses, (ii) enticing skilled Arab emigrants to return to their home countries to teach university, technical or extension courses, and (iii) ‘bonding’ of recent graduates for service in underprivileged areas.
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ISSN:0305-750X
1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/0305-750X(81)90068-1