Arab Educational Information Network

The economy in an age of globalized and knowledge-based economies has become heavily dependent on university-educated and highly skilled human resources, who are employable and mobile across national borders. Harmonization of educational systems of the Arab countries and the setting up of shared academic quality assurance standards are essential steps towards facilitating employability and mobility of human resources. These issues are explored in the context of the Arab world in this mainly expository paper in which it is argued that the Bologna process, as a further step towards European integration, can serve as a model which is relevant to the harmonization of educational systems of the Arab countries.