Fishy Gulf Higher Education: Mock American University of RAK……………..
“RAS AL KHAIMAH // The American University of RAK has made nearly three-quarters of its administrative staff redundant in the past month. The senior management dismissals began on May 27 with the university’s president, Sharon Siverts, and ended last week. Other faculty and administrative staff have been told to take pay cuts or accept termination in what the university has termed a restructuring effort. One faculty member, who asked not to be named, said: “Considering we have fewer than 100 students, there were just too many highly paid members of staff and the management have just come down on everyone. But without the level of faculty, they will not retain their accreditation status.”.……”
With 100 students for the whole "college" (okay, university), what can they teach them? What selection of classes can they have? I used to have more than twice as many students in one of my classes (when I was a student).
I have always thought there was something fishy about these Western colleges sprouting all over the Persian Gulf states (to start with, there is something worse than fishy about a university that is for profit). The day I see Alan Dershowitz spend at least one year teaching law at some Gulf state, is the day I will know that it really is a genuine branch of Harvard. The same goes for Robert Reich and UC Berkeley.
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