Talk:Higher education in the Arab world
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This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 August 2024 and 4 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): 675686m, Saleh Ali AL Suhaibi, JustCheckingUp (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Mohammed Al-Naamani, Rrvms, CosmicOreo, Bana.banana, Ecst48y, Writer2607, Writer570.
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- Hello everyone.
- I added a section on Issues facing Higher Education in the Arab World, this was inspired by a similar section in Higher Education in the United States. JustCheckingUp (talk) 13:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- @JustCheckingUp and @Saleh Ali AL Suhaibi - thank you for your edits and your efforts to improve this article. Please practice editing in your own Sandboxes before you make large edits on the article like this. I reverted both of your edits as they were detrimental to the article - they did not follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style, which applies to all articles; they removed the lead section, which is especially important because it is the first part of the article that a reader will see. This is an important topic and the information added here needs to be both correct and easily readable. My suggestion is to work on the article, or sections of it, in your Sandbox, and discuss changes and improvements with your classmates so you can experiment and figure out what works without publishing immediately. It also helps to make small, incremental changes so that if there are some issues, those can be removed while the rest of the positive contributions can remain. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia and please keep editing! If you have any questions, please ping me using the @ sign and my user name. Kazamzam (talk) 19:00, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Kazamzam. Thank you for your feedback and your efforts in maintaining the high standards of Wikipedia. Can you review my intended changes on my sandbox? I realised that my previous draft read too much like an essay rather than an encyclopaedia. User:JustCheckingUp/sandbox JustCheckingUp (talk) 14:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- @JustCheckingUp - thank you for your message! Your edits in the sandbox look fine, although please be sure to put the first reference after the period and not before it. My main concern is that, other than the second and third sentences (both of which need references; claiming that something is the first definitely needs a citation), what you have written doesn't really fit into the larger article. Quality assurance is important for high education, so how does that fit in with the larger topic? There's already a section on global university rankings and critiques of those rankings, so what is your new section going to add? I think it could be expanded with info on the ANQAHE and the AAU, if that's the route you decide to pursue.
- Alternatively, I think there are a few topics that could be added to the article that would improve it and make it more comprehensive - discussions of tuition cost for students and sources of funding, government oversight, international vs. domestic students, etc. - that would be really helpful in improving the article and making it more comprehensive. If you want to discuss something close to home, the expansion of the 'American University of ____' accreditation system would also be really cool. Let me know what you think and I'm happy to collaborate with you further! Best, Kazamzam (talk) 14:54, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Kazamzam. Thank you for your feedback and your efforts in maintaining the high standards of Wikipedia. Can you review my intended changes on my sandbox? I realised that my previous draft read too much like an essay rather than an encyclopaedia. User:JustCheckingUp/sandbox JustCheckingUp (talk) 14:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- @JustCheckingUp and @Saleh Ali AL Suhaibi - thank you for your edits and your efforts to improve this article. Please practice editing in your own Sandboxes before you make large edits on the article like this. I reverted both of your edits as they were detrimental to the article - they did not follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style, which applies to all articles; they removed the lead section, which is especially important because it is the first part of the article that a reader will see. This is an important topic and the information added here needs to be both correct and easily readable. My suggestion is to work on the article, or sections of it, in your Sandbox, and discuss changes and improvements with your classmates so you can experiment and figure out what works without publishing immediately. It also helps to make small, incremental changes so that if there are some issues, those can be removed while the rest of the positive contributions can remain. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia and please keep editing! If you have any questions, please ping me using the @ sign and my user name. Kazamzam (talk) 19:00, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
Added section on Issues facing higher education
editThis was inspired by a similar section in Higher Education in the United States. Also added a sub-section there called Quality Assurance. Please don't be afraid to point out any flaws in my article JustCheckingUp (talk) 13:36, 22 September 2024 (UTC)