Field of action 1.1: General Policy Activities
Since
the creation of the Federation in 1987, the General Secretariat of the FUIW has
implemented a directive plan and three three-year action plans for the periods
(1998-2000), (2001-2003) and (2004-2006). On the basis of the remarks issued by
the General Conferences and Executive Councils and in the light of the changes
and challenges witnessed by the educational sector in general and higher
education in the Islamic world in particular, the General Secretariat has given
priority in the present draft plan to the following trends:
- Taking into account the educational specificities and needs of the Islamic world;
- Being conscious of the changes, challenges and
concerns at the regional and international arenas;
- Adopting a visionary approach leading to a reform based
on originality and modernity ;
- Adopting a comprehensive and integrated vision based
on the different components of the Ummah and linked to the educational,
methodological, administrative and human systems;
- Drawing up planning references and information guides
that clarify the present and prospect the future;
- To link higher education with contemporary problems
and the Ummah's issues;
- Developing specialized researches and studies and setting
up civilisational projects that contribute to the enhancement of higher
education's mission in the Islamic world;
- Giving attention to education-related information in
the Federation's programmes and projects;
- Promoting Islamic values in the educational mission.
Conscious
of the impact of information and communication technologies and of educational planning
research in developing higher education; acknowledging the risks underlying the
challenges and aggressive campaigns against Islam and Muslims; recognizing the
importance of enhancing religious and civilisational identity in higher
education programmes; and as part of implementing the resolutions and
recommendations of the Federation's bodies which commend the Federation's participation
in the Islamic and international conferences relevant to its fields of
competence and entrust it with the elaboration of specialized projects to
improve higher education, the Secretary General instructed the Federation's
administration to take all these considerations as a strategic goal of the Federation.
Thus, in addition to holding the sessions of the Executive Council and the General
Conference, the Federation will focus in this field also on studying projects,
programmes, reports and regulations, as well as on convening specialized
meetings and participating in the encounters held by similar bodies in order to
express the Federation's Islamic point of view concerning all those issues. Interest
will be given as well to educational information, through publishing a monthly
news bulletin, continuing the issuing of the journal "Al-Jami'a", and communicating
to the Member Universities information cards on the Federation's activities.
Axis 1.1.1: The
sessions of the General Conference and the Executive Council
The
activity relative to the General Conference and the Executive Council consists in
seeing to the implementation of the Federation's general policy, plans and
programmes, issuing resolutions and recommendations and proposing the mechanisms
and projects needed to carry out its mission. This axis includes the following
programmes:
Programme
1.1.1.1: The fifth session of the General Conference and the three sessions of
the Executive Council (12-13-14)
Objectives:
- Defining the Federation's new general policy in the light of the changes and challenges;
- Studying the Federation's reports, projects, plans and programmes;
- Drawing up regulations and suggesting mechanisms and procedures to improve the services of the Federation.
Implementation mechanisms:
- Unless circumstances require that an extraordinary session be held, only one session of the General Conference is to be held during this Plan;
- The Executive Council will hold three ordinary sessions; extraordinary sessions may be convened if need be;
- Preparatory meetings are held to tackle the organizational and academic aspects of the sessions;
- Prior to the sessions, documents and instruments are addressed to the Member Universities.
Expected results:
- Issuing resolutions and recommendations to develop higher education;
- Providing specialized reference documents with a view
to carrying out the mission of the Islamic university.
Axis 1.1.2:
Conferences, symposia and meetings of the Federation and similar institutions
Since
its inception, the Federation has endeavoured to confirm its civilisational
role in addressing the various educational, scientific and cultural issues
which fall within the scope of its objectives, the aim being to revitalize the
mission of the Islamic university inside and outside the Islamic countries.
Conscious of the importance of encounters in improving the quality of its
services, enhancing its approaches and exchanging expertise and experience
between different university institutions, the Federation looks forward to
convening seminars, partaking in many conferences and encouraging the staff and
faculty of Member Universities to attend meetings so as to upgrade the educational,
didactic and professional performance of the university. This axis includes the
following programme:
Programme
1.1.2.1: holding and participating in specialized meetings on higher education
issues
Objectives:
- Conceiving future visions to promote higher education;
- Asserting the presence of the Federation in international meetings;
- Taking advantage of leading international experiences and expertise;
- Encouraging Member Universities researchers and staff.
Implementation mechanisms:
Within
the framework of its objectives, the Federation will work towards holding
conferences, symposia and meetings in order to study the major issues and projects
related to the diversification and modernization of higher education
structures, so that they correspond to the needs of the new era. By way of
presenting its view of the Islamic university and taking advantage of the
experience of universities, the Federation will also participate in the
meetings held by similar federations and institutions, and support the participation
of researchers and staff from Member Universities, with a view to extending
their knowledge and raising the standards of their universities.
Expected results:
- Providing reference documents;
- Holding and participating in meetings to discuss higher education issues;
- Encouraging university researchers to attend university meetings.
Axis 1.1.3: The Federation's information and educational position
Aware
of the impact of information on promoting the issues of higher education and its
importance in publicizing the activities of Member Universities and the Federation,
and as part of contributing to the advancement of researches and studies
related to higher education and to the Islamic Ummah's preoccupations, the FUIW
will publish a news bulletin and pursue the publication of new issues of its
journal "Al-Jami'a". It will also work to develop its website, which was most
kindly conceived by the Islamic Azad University of the Islamic Republic of
Iran. This axis consists of the following programme:
Programme
1.1.3.1: Publishing the Federation's news bulletin and journal and building its
website.
Objectives:
- Raising the standards of university researches and studies;
- Publicizing the activities of the Federation and Member Universities;
- Upgrading the Federation's website.
Implementation mechanisms:
In pursuance
of its academic mission, the Federation will publish the three issues of its
journal "Al-Jami'a", where stress will be laid on tackling the problems and
issues that hamper the progress of higher education and hinder complementarity and
partnership between universities inside the Islamic world and among Muslims in the
West. God willing, FUIW will publish also its news bulletin to present its
activities as well as those of the Member Universities. Likewise, the Federation's
website will be developed in a way to take advantage of the new information
systems.
Expected results:
- Publication of the sixth, seventh and eighth issues of the journal "Al-Jami'a";
- Publication of the sixth, seventh and eight issues of the Federation's news bulletin;
- Upgrading the Federation's website.
Field of action 2.1: Cooperation and Complementarity between the Member Universities and Common-Interest institutions
Enhancing the Islamic
principles that praise cooperation, such as in the verse: "and help one another in goodness and
piety", and call for solidarity as in the verse "and hold fast by the covenant of Allah
all together"; pursuant to the Federation's Charter, which stresses
the exchange of information and visits among Member Universities; and believing
in the importance of cooperation as a religious obligation, a social need and a
human civilisational necessity, the Federation will pay particular interest to
cooperation among Member Universities on the one hand, and between them and
common-interest higher education institutions on the other. Besides, the Federation
considers that one of the priorities of its strategic action is to stress complementarity
between the different levels and types of education as it is an integrated
system whose outputs aim at meeting the needs of comprehensive development.
From the experience accumulated
by the Federation, there is growing need for energizing cooperation,
complementarity and partnership among higher education institutions to meet the
requirements of constructing an Islamic and human civilisational edifice.
Accordingly, this field
will focus on using new mechanisms in order to reinforce the bonds of this
cooperation, as well as on broadening the scope of its domains to include the
following axes:
- Cooperation and complementarity between Member Universities;
- Cooperation and partnership between Member Universities, similar federations and institutions;
- Complementarity between the types and levels of educational systems;
- Exchange of reference data and information concerning universities' activities.
Axis 2.1.1: Exchange of cooperation programmes among Member
Universities
Recognizing the
importance of cooperation among Member Universities; confirming the unity of joint
Islamic action; capitalizing on the various expertise and leading experiences; and
with a view to avoiding redundancy, rationalizing expenditure and exploiting
the existing energies, the Federation will strive to shore up the partnership
and cooperative dimension among the Member Universities in the educational,
scientific, cultural and documental fields. This axis consists of the following
programme:
Programme 2.1.1.1: exchange of information, programmes, studies and
visits among the Member Universities
Objectives
- Promoting cooperation and partnership among Member Universities;
- Exchanging unique expertise and leading experiences;
- Joint exploitation of knowledge-related capacities and energies.
Implementation mechanisms:
Consolidating the bridges
of cooperation, the Federation will reinforce the forms of cooperation and
partnership, by bringing into action the project of "the twinning of
universities", holding meetings and organizing visits among the Member
Universities. It will also endeavour to give new aspects to this cooperation,
illustrated by the exchange of views concerning programmes and studies. FUIW
will work as well to broaden the scope of this cooperation so that it encompasses
university administrative staff and students.
Expected results:
- Acquaintance with the various university expertise and experiences;
- Qualification of university staff and students;
- Carrying out the "university twinning" project.
Axis 2.1.2: Complementarity in higher education
Higher
education is the apex of the education pyramid. The outputs of general
education are the inputs of higher education; in turn, higher education with
all its types and levels leads to the cultural, social, economic and
civilisational canals of society. In view of this organic relation between higher
and general education and between higher education and its types, levels and
social dimensions, it has become imperative to foster this complementarity in a
way to serve the Ummah's development and civilisational causes. This axis
consists of the following programme:
Programme
2.1.2.1: Complementarity between educational types and levels in the Member
Universities
Objectives:
- Taking advantage of the experiences of the new types of universities;
- Promoting complementarity between higher and general education, and between public and private higher education;
- Consolidating the comprehensive integrated conception between the different stages and types of education.
Implementation mechanisms:
Conscious
of the complementarity gap suffered by certain educational systems in the
Islamic countries, in their types and levels, this programme will focus on the
mechanisms able to support this complementarity and coordination between
general and higher education, formal and informal, vocational and public, as
well as between education and the social, economic and political systems, by means
of drawing up studies and holding meetings to address these issues.
Expected results:
- Providing studies that support complementarity;
- Holding meetings to support this complementarity;
- Qualifying human resources in the fields of coordination and complementarity.
Axis 2.1.3: Partnership among higher education institutions
Higher
education is steadily progressing at different levels as a result of the
changes and new development that have taken place in the twenty-first century, on
the one hand, and also because of the information and communication revolution.
This proves the importance of partnership and cooperation among all higher
education institutions, as a means to achieve the rationalisation of expenditure,
the exchange of expertise, the complementarity of visions and the coordination
of efforts within the framework of the common interests, especially as there is
a quantum difference in the advantage taken of the attainments of the past and the
achievements of the present. This axis consists of the following programme:
Programme
2.1.3.1: partnership between the Federation and the different higher education
institutions
Objectives:
- Extending knowledge and expertise sources of higher education institutions;
- Taking advantage of the leading experiences and expertise;
- Enriching higher education and diversifying its approaches.
Implementation mechanisms:
With a
view to taking advantage of diversity and difference, two elements that enhance
the quality of higher education, and to avoiding redundancy and rationalising expenditure,
the Federation will broaden the scope of partnership with university
institutions and the organisations concerned with higher education. This would
be achieved by signing cooperation agreements with these bodies, organizing
joint activities in the frame of common objectives, exchanging visits,
information, documents, studies and consultations, the aim being to provide the
best and most efficient approaches to develop higher education.
Expected results:
- Exchange of information, visits and invitations promoting the Federations' action;
- Signing partnership agreements;
- Holding consultation and coordination meetings.
Axis 2.1.4: Reference guides and data on the Member Universities
Bearing
in mind that no strategic plan can reach its objectives unless it is based on
data that allow grasping and assessing reality and prospecting the future, the Federation
has published during its previous plans guides about the Islamic world universities
as well as about Member Universities. It has produced also academic journals of
university scientific research in order to publicize and derive benefit from
the efforts of the Islamic universities. In this connection, the Federation
will carry on with its endeavours to prepare reference guides. This axis
consists of the following programme:
Programme 2.1.4.1: Reference guides about education in the Member Universities
Objectives:
- Providing data pertaining to the development and assessment of higher education;
- Publicizing the activities and capacities of the Member Universities;
- Promoting the exchange of information, expertise and experience among the Member Universities.
Implementation mechanisms:
As
part of the Federation's efforts to compile guides informing about the actualities
of universities and their endeavours to advance scientific research, the Federation
will draw up, within the frame of its new action plan, guides that survey the
competencies of universities, present their achievements and scientific records,
update their data and assess their performance, in a way that fulfills the
requirements of development and change.
Expected results:
- Providing reference databases;
- Publicizing the capacities and achievements of the Member Universities;
- Assessing the performance of the Member Universities.
Field of action 3.1: The Promotion of Education in the Member Universities
The
twenty-first century is witnessing a steady progress in the various
technological, educational and cultural fields. At the same time, there has
been a growing awareness of the importance of developing the structures of higher
education, modernizing its policies, curricula and sources of knowledge and
financing, and qualifying its staff to face the challenges and meet the civilisational
and development aspirations, whose proportions grow at the same pace as the current
changes and challenges. At the top of this development comes strategic planning,
which determines the bases, specificities and priorities of higher education, on
the basis of intellectual and value-centred references that guide the new types
of universities and develop the sources and tools of research, knowledge and
finance, with a view to promoting Islamic universities.
Recognizing
the importance of the integrated edification of the Islamic university, and
conscious of the need to deepen awareness about mission and strategy among the Member
Universities, the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World will focus
its effort in this field on drawing up strategies and specialized
civilisation-related studies, modernizing curricula and teaching methods, developing
educational research and planning, and qualifying university human resources in
order to ameliorate university performance, fulfil the sought objectives,
enhance university pedagogy and reach high-standard educational quality. In
this regard, this field consists of the following axes:
- Strategic references for the development of higher education;
- Sources of knowledge and expenditure in higher education;
- Educational systems and human resources (upgarding and qualification)
Axis 3.1.1: Strategic references for the development of higher education
With
the advent of the third millennium, the world has become home to social,
scientific and technological challenges whose consequences are perceptible in every
aspect of higher education. This has confirmed the need for elaborating
strategic studies and plans that project the horizons of higher education's
future and preserve its achievements. There is also an increasing need to set planning
and research as top priorities. Accordingly, higher education is now invited to
make the best use of the new types of education, in their technological and
civilisational components. This axis consists of the following programme:
Programme 3.1.1.1: Studies, plans and strategies
Objectives:
- Analyzing the reality and prospects of higher education;
- Drawing up prospective strategic frames of reference;
- Developing and modernizing higher education issues.
Implementation mechanisms:
Seeking
to reach a higher education that explores the horizons of the future and meets
the standards of comprehensive integrated quality based on prospective studies,
the Federation will carry on with its efforts to develop higher education,
namely through holding experts' meetings and drawing up strategic studies in
this field.
Expected results:
- Drawing up a strategy to develop higher education;
- Providing studies about higher education issues;
- Holding experts' meetings to develop and modernize higher education structures.
Programme 3.1.1.2: New types of universities and the knowledge society
Objectives:
- Meeting the needs and countering the growing challenges facing the Islamic world;
- Making the best use of technology to further the types and issues of higher education;
- Broadening the scope of profit to be taken from university education;
- Reinforcing cooperation among the Member Universities.
Implementation mechanisms:
With a
view to sparing effort and time and broadening the scope of benefit to be
derived from higher education by taking advantage of information technology and
its applications, the Federation will work, in cooperation with its partners
and members, to energize the new types of higher education, in order to increase
their advantages and avoid their drawbacks. That will be done through drawing
up specialized studies on these new typed of universities, developing the
project of "the Islamic Virtual University", which was launched by the Islamic
Azad University in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and holding meetings to discuss
their experiences and profit from their expertise.
Expected results:
- Preparing specialized studies on the new types of universities;
- Holding meetings for experts specialized in the new types of universities;
- Developing the project of "the Islamic Virtual University".
Programme 3.1.1.3: Research and planning in higher education
Objectives:
- Fostering university research in the service of the Ummah's development and civilisation-related causes;
- Modernizing planning methods to enhance the performance of higher education;
- Exchanging expertise and experiences among researchers and planners in higher education.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to develop the methods and instruments of university researches and
modernize the systems and mechanisms of planning, the Federation will orient
university researches and constructive planning to take account of the changes
and new developments and contribute to carrying out the civilisational mission
of Islamic universities, by holding meetings for university researchers and
planners, encouraging academic research, providing the necessary studies and data,
which will be eventually used in developing higher education curricula, and awarding
the Federation's Prize for the best university researches.
Expected results:
- Holding an experts' meeting on research and planning in higher education;
- Awarding the Federation's Prize for University Research;
- Exchanging research programmes among the Member Universities.
Axis 3.1.2: Sources of knowledge and financing in higher education;
Thanks
to the outstanding technological and information progress, modern societies enjoy
a multitude of knowledge sources, as libraries, book fairs and university
museums have become, due to the availability of technical means and human
resources, major streams of education and knowledge. In addition, new
technologies and leading experiences have improved the methods and techniques
of public spending in the higher education sector and diversified its financing
sources. This implies that attention should be given to the two factors, given
their important impact on modernizing and rationalizing the structures of higher
education. This axis consists of the following programmes:
Programme 3.1.2.1: University library services
Objectives:
- Making the best use of technology in order to develop knowledge sources;
- Improving the capacities of university library personnel;
- Exchanging expertise and experience among Member Universities staff working in libraries.
Implementation mechanisms:
Seeking
to develop library services, modernize library systems and raise library
personnel capacities, the Federation will endeavour, in cooperation with the Member
Universities, to conduct studies devoted to develop library services with a
view to showing the values of Islamic knowledge and documenting its manuscripts
in the frame of the project of the "Virtual Islamic University" and the
project of "University Exhibitions".
Expected results:
- Creation and development of the Islamic university library;
- Organisation of university book fairs;
- Documentation of university manuscripts.
Programme 3.1.2.2: Financing higher education
Objectives:
- Diversification and advancement of the sources of financing higher education;
- Rationalization and assessment of the methods of financing higher education;
- Taking advantage of leading experiences in the field of financing higher education
Implementation mechanisms:
Looking
for the various funding sources and as part of developing the methods and ways
of expenditure, the Federation will conduct a study on the economies of higher
education, and compile a guide containing the optimal rationalization
standards. In this connection, specialized experts will be dispatched to assess
and develop the financial situations of Member Universities. The Federation will
also convene a meeting for experts in higher education finance in order to
address the problems related thereto.
Expected results:
- Conducting a study on the economies of higher education;
- Compiling a guide to rationalize expenditure on higher education;
- Holding workshops to address the problems of university financing.
Axis 3.1.3: Educational systems and human resources
Interest
in higher education has been on the rise, as it produces the brains who shape the
progress of society and participate to a great extent in its prosperity as well
as in preserving its identity. Thus, the educational programmes, teaching
methods and the human, administrative and pedagogical resources of higher education
have become a top priority in the strategies aimed to develop higher education.
The objective is to improve the quality of higher education outputs, take
advantage of educational technology, meet the needs of society and the latter's
specificities, especially as the professionals of higher education are
concerned with the relevant approach to succeed the reform. This axis consists
of the following programmes:
Programme 3.1.3.1: Upgrading curricula and teaching methods:
Objectives:
- Enhancing the qualitative performance of higher education;
- Developing higher education programmes and curricula;
- Modernizing higher education teaching methods;
- Providing technical counsel to raise the standard of higher education.
Implementation mechanisms:
Seeking
to meet the objectives of developing higher education curricula and programmes,
a symposium will be held on the theme of "higher education between the constants
and the variables". Moreover, experts' meetings will be convened to discuss
the different issues of higher education, while studies will be carried to
address its problems. On the basis of the distinguished expertise of Member
Universities, the Federation will extend technical counsel to promote and
upgrade higher education in general.
Expected results:
- Holding a symposium on the theme "higher education between the constants and the variables";
- Providing technical counsel to modernize higher education;
- Holding experts' meetings and drawing up studies in order to develop higher education programmes.
Programme 3.1.3.2: Modernizing university administration and raising the competence of faculty and staff:
Objectives:
- Raising the professional skills of university staff;
- Raising the educational competencies of the faculty;
- Taking advantage of educational pedagogy and the latest scientific innovations in developing human resources.
Implementation mechanisms:
Feeling
the need of universities for professionally and educationally competent human
resources, the Federation intends to organize sessions in educational and
professional qualification for administrative and educational staff in the Member
Universities, in order to derive benefit from the latest educational theories
and programmes as well as from scientific and technological advances in this
field.
Expected results:
- Holding training sessions for the faculty;
- Holding professional training sessions for university staff.
Programme 3.1.3.3: Quality and technology in higher education
Objectives:
- Attaining comprehensive quality in higher education to meet society's requirements and needs;
- Making the best applications of educational technology in higher education;
- Raising awareness about the importance of quality and technology in higher education.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to raise awareness of the importance of quality and technology in higher
education, the Federation will define the standards of comprehensive quality
and the rules of the rational use of technology, through drawing up a study on
the theme: "high quality university education" and holding meetings on "the
optimal use of technology in higher education".
Expected results:
- Conducting a study on comprehensive quality standards;
- Holding meetings on quality and technology in higher education.
Field of action 4.1: Higher Education in the Service of the Ummah's Issues and Contemporary Problems
At the
beginning of the twenty-first century, the role of Islamic universities in
promoting civilisational and development issues has increased in parallel with
the heightening challenges of globalisation that threaten specificities and
identities, and the rising blights of unemployment, poverty and illiteracy that
hamper social resurgence and economic progress of the Islamic communities. In
addition, the high figures of brain drain and the policies of exclusion and
marginalization from which suffer some Muslim categories in the West have
augmented the needs of Muslim communities in the West, amidst fallacious
allegations directed against Islam and Muslims in media contents and
educational curricula, because of ignorance or hostility; hence rises the
necessity of Islamic universities to assume their responsibilities through
major actions such as:
- Preserving and exploiting the Islamic civilisational and cultural heritage in order to highlight its eternal human values;
- Linking higher education outputs to the civilisational and development needs of the Ummah;
- Reinforcing the civilisational mission of Islamic higher education in the West;
- Presenting the Islamic approach in addressing contemporary issues and problems.
Axis 4.1.1: Higher education in the service of Muslims' civilisational and development-related issues
This
axis aims at shoring up the role of the Member Universities in terms of
civilisational and development-related issues in order to protect the
civilisational, cultural, intellectual and material heritage of the Islamic world
against alienation and seclusion. At the same time, it seeks to explore the
creative elements of this heritage, publicize its civilisational contributions
and encourage university activities in the intellectual, literary, artistic and
linguistic fields to promote sustainable development and address the Ummah's
social and economic problems.
Conscious
of the Islamic presence in the West, which has become well-established and
active, not merely transient and reactive, the Federation will focus under this
axis on extending support to university educational and cultural action of
Muslims in the West, so as to reinvigorate its mission, preserve its identity
and assert its positive integration.
Programme 4.1.1.1: Civilisational and cultural
heritage in higher education curricula
Objectives:
- Protecting the Islamic civilisational and cultural heritage against alienation and seclusion ;
- Publicizing the Islamic cultural contribution to the human civilisation;
- Celebrating the most distinguished Islamic academic figures and university institutions;
- Using the media to serve the cultural and civilisational mission of the Islamic university.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to meet these objectives, the Federation will establish FUIW university
chairs as a means to energize the cultural mission of the university. It will
also hold seminars on Islamic architecture, manuscripts, museums, stolen
cultural property, literature and arts. In the same vein, the Federation will
pay homage to Islamic academic figures and university institutions, and
participate in the celebration of the capitals of Islamic culture organized by ISESCO.
Expected results:
- Establishing the Federation's university chairs;
- Holding seminars on the Islamic cultural, artistic, architectural, and literary heritage;
- Celebrating Islamic personalities and university institutions.
Programme 4.1.1.2: The university and
economic, social development of the Islamic Ummah
Objectives:
- Linking Islamic higher education outputs with sustainable development;
- Leading Islamic higher education to promote the society socially and economically;
- Bringing the university to foster human development in the Islamic societies;
- Raising university awareness of the social and economic factors of underdevelopment in the Islamic societies.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to achieve these objectives, the Federation will hold an international symposium
on the role of the university in social and economic development of the Islamic
world. Other symposia will be held in order to deal with the problems of social
categories with special needs. Furthermore, relevant prizes will be granted to gifted
and excellent students, and artistic and sports encounters will be organized
for the students of Islamic universities.
Expected results:
- Holding an international symposium on the theme "the university and social, economic development in the Islamic world";
- Holding symposia to address the problems of the marginalized social categories;
- Granting prizes for gifted students in the Member Universities;
- Holding artistic and sports encounters for students of the Member Universities.
Programme 4.1.1.3: University educational and
cultural action of Muslims in the West
Objectives:
- Energizing and developing the educational mission of Islamic university action in the West;
- Inviting Western Islamic universities to participate in correcting the prejudicial stereotypes about Islam and Muslims;
- Reinforcing the values of dialogue, mutual understanding and the culture of peace and human rights through university activities;
- Exchanging expertise and experience among universities;
- Taking advantage of Muslim competencies in the West.
Implementation mechanisms:
With a
view to enhancing the civilisational belonging of Muslims in the West and
revitalizing their educational and cultural mission to protect it against
deviation, affirm its effective role in enhancing the values of mutual
understanding, dialogue and peace, and rationalize its efforts, the Federation intends
to hold meetings for Member Universities' officials to exchange expertise and
experience. It also looks forward to conducting workshops on the cultural and
educational problems of the Member Universities, as well as to defining the
challenges and new developments in the Islamic university landscape in the West
. The Federation will attempt also to benefit from the migrant Islamic
competencies.
Expected results:
- Holding a meeting for the presidents of Islamic universities in the West;
- Organizing a symposium for Muslim academic migrant brains;
- Convening workshops to address problems and issues related to the cultural and educational action.
Axis 4.1.2: Higher education and the addressing of contemporary issues and problems
The
world today is witnessing rapid changes generated by the materialistic choices
in their scientific and social dimensions. This has prompted the craving to
compete for hegemony and gain. As a result, interest in value-centered human
and social aspects has waned dramatically. Globalization is one of those
challenges that threaten identities and specificities, and seeks to impose its
model of development on the world. Under the new world order, whose hegemony has
spread by force, poverty and illiteracy are taking alarming proportions in
parallel with the phenomena of violence, extremism and human rights and peace
violations, due to the absence of value-oriented education. Such a situation compels
universities to raise awareness of these problems and present the Islamic
approach to address them. This axis consists of the following two programmes:
Programme 4.1.2.1: University human and social sciences
and present-day problems
Objectives:
- Raising awareness of contemporary human and social phenomena and problems;
- Presenting the Islamic and scientific point of view in addressing contemporary problems;
- Exchanging expertise and views among the Member Universities in this field.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to enhance the presence of Islamic universities and confirm the
efficiency of their services, the Federation looks forward to holding
university meetings to address the issues of globalization, illiteracy,
poverty, extremism and peace from an Islamic academic perspective. It will also
give counsel to the Member Universities so that they integrate these issues in
their curricula.
Expected results:
- Holding meetings on globalization, illiteracy, poverty, extremism and human rights;
- Providing technical counsel in order to deal with these problems in the educational programmes;
- Drawing up academic studies on addressing contemporary issues and problems.
Programme 4.1.2.2: Higher education and the issues
of environment, health and population
Objectives:
- Raising awareness about the perils threatening the environment, health and population;
- Presenting the Islamic perspective in protecting the environment, health and population;
- Developing and modernizing the integration of their concepts in educational curricula;
- Raising the university's capacities to address these issues.
Implementation mechanisms:
In
order to foster the concepts of the environment, health and population in
university educational programmes, and address their problems that threaten the
safety of the world and mankind, the Federation intends to hold university
meetings on these topics and provide technical counsel to the Member
Universities on how to integrate these concepts in the university educational curricula.
It will also help in developing national policies relative to addressing the
issues of the environment, health and population.
Expected results:
- Holding university meetings on the environment,
health and population;
- Providing technical counsel to integrate these concepts
in the educational curricula.
Detailed
Table
of
the Federation's Programmes & Activities
For
the Years 2007-2009
