Recent Issues

Education and Scientific Development in the OIC Member Countries 2016 (18 November 2016)

Education and Scientific Development in the OIC Member Countries 2014 (19 December 2014)

Education and Scientific Development in the OIC Member Countries 2012/2013 (17 December 2012)

Education and Scientific Development in OIC Member Countries (19 October 2010)

Education: Prospects and Challenges in the OIC Member Countries (18 October 2008)

Introduction

Education is one of the most important investments a country can make in its people and its future. It is the core of human capital formation and central to development of a society. Investment in education and quality research at various national institutions are vital in achieving higher economic growth and reducing poverty and inequality. Quality education generates benefits to the society that go beyond the gains secured by the individuals involved. Similarly, research in science and technology is of great importance and key to progress towards a knowledge-based and innovation-driven economy. It promotes better understanding on different aspects of life, and helps to improve the standard of living by generating new knowledge and technological innovation.

In this framework, SESRIC regularly prepares a report on the Education and Scientific Development in the OIC Member Countries, primarily for the conferences of Islamic Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The report analyses and examines the trends in the major indicators in the field of educational and scientific developments in the OIC Member Countries. It investigates these trends in a comparative manner with their counterparts in the group of developed countries, non-OIC developing countries as well as the world as a whole. In so doing, the report highlights a number of constraints and challenges confronting the member countries in their efforts to foster their educational and scientific development.