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ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK IDB 1440 VISION Quick
Win Programs
GENERAL ROADMAP FOR ACHIEVING
EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHER
EDUCATION
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Objective

• Open up higher education institutions to new
  technological innovation and opportunities as
  well as improving the ways in which knowledge is
  produced, managed, disseminated, accessed and
  controlled.
• Reform IDB member countries-based learning
  institutes to become "functional developmental
  institutes" providing valuable resource for
  business, industry and society.
• And upgrading them to become world-class
  institutions of higher learning through balancing
  international academic standards with national
  needs and local identity and culture.

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Aims

• Building and retaining a critical mass of
  world-class scientists and technologists in
  targeted Science and technology areas
• Promoting relevant research and development
  outcomes for promoting value-added products for
  the private sector.
• Improving and reforming the educational
  institutions in order to facilitate IDB member
  countries participation in the knowledge-based
  economy.

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Outline about the roadmap

• Fifteen (15) institutions, five (5) within each
  of the three IDB regions (African, Asian and Arab
  regions), will be identified for carrying out the
  upgrading process to promote scientific research
  in chosen strategic fields in Science and
  Technology.
• Carrying out gap analysis to formulate the
  necessary strategic initiatives to be undertaken
  for the upgrading (reform) process, and precisely
  define the objectives to be reached by the end of
  the upgrading
• _at_ A diagnostic report will be prepared
  for the selected Institutes.
• _at_ Bench marking with world class
  universities
• Three (3) of the 15 selected institutions, one
  (1) from each IDB region, will be chosen for the
  pilot phase of the Quick Win Project for
  demonstrating the feasibility of the upgrading
  process.
• Undertaken strategic initiatives for upgrading.
• Evaluation for the pilot phase
• Large scale upgrading.

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Schematic representation of the roadmap
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Priority science and technology fields. in each
of the three IDB regions (i.e. African, Arab and
Asian regions)

• ST fields must have
• Regional impact
• High scientific potential
• Highly critical to the economic development of
  member countries
• An analysis of the results of various studies
  including
• Status of Scientific Research in OIC Member
  States performed by the COMSTECH
• Arab foundation of science and technology
• IDB science development network
• National and regional strategies for science and
  technology

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ST fields of regional interest with present high
scientific potential
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2. Institutions selection process. 15 selected
educational institutions (5 within each of the
three IDB regions "African, Asian and Arab
regions") were initially identified for carrying
out the upgrading and reforming process to
promote scientific research in chosen strategic
fields in Science and Technology.

• The potential candidate institutions were
  selected using the following
• International rankings including World Academic
  Ranking of Universities, Times Higher Education
  Ranking and Scientific Research Performance
  Ranking.
• Regional rankings including Pakistan-based
  COMSTECH ranking and Turkey-based SESTRIC ranking
• Other measures have been put in consideration in
  the selection process
• - IDB Science and Technology Prize winner
  institutions.
• - Geographical distribution within each IDB
  region
• - The readiness of the selected institutions to
  meet the upgrading demands.
• - Institutions with potential for both national
  and regional impact on the development of
  knowledge based economy.
• - The selection focuses on research centres or
  units within selected universities in order to
  facilitate the implementation process. Those
  centers should also have Master and or PhD
  degrees training programmes.

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Selected institutions
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The final selection of exact programme,
department, unit or center within these
institutions, to be subject to upgrading for
achieving excellence in higher education science
and technology for development, will be made
after

• The diagnosis process which will be conducted by
  asking the selected institutions to fill a
  comprehensive formulary.
• Following the respective IDB procedures, the
  concerned governmental institutions and IDBs
  representatives in the concerned country shall be
  involved,
• The collected information will be assessed by
  missions to the institutions for.
• - Getting in touch with the reality on the
  ground.
• - Ensuring that the institutions have the
  necessary minimum standards to leap-frog to
  excel.

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Prior of starting the pilot phase and in abid to
make the gap analysis, formulate the necessary
strategic initiatives to be undertaken for the
upgrading (reform) process, and precisely define
the objectives to be reached by the end of the
upgrading, the following will be carried out

• A diagnostic report for each selected institution
• An appropriate benchmarking with world-class
  institutions.

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Pilot phase

• Out of the 15 selected educational
  institutions, one educational institute in each
  of the three IDB regions "African, Asian and Arab
  regions") will participate in the pilot programme
  for carrying out the upgrading and reforming
  process to promote scientific research in chosen
  strategic fields in Science and Technology.

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Trends and tools

• The reviews of the current literatures and views
  on transformation of higher education reveals the
  existence of many trends that should be included
  into the Roadmap for excellence.
• Characteristics.
• Transformation into research universities or
  international hubs of excellence
• Increasing demand for higher education,
  particularly for science and technology based
  disciplines
• Focus on quality in teaching, learning,
  research and service delivery
• More institutional autonomy and university
  empowerment and self- funds generation
• Growing competition on specialized niche areas,
  strategic research priorities, quality student,
  quality staff
• devoting more funds to finance research and
  teaching and learning
• Infuse of ICT and high tech tools in teaching and
  research
• Enhancing science and technology education
  through empowering staff with the skills and
  pedagogical and methodological knowledge
• Linking the university to industry and society
  as a whole in order to get strength and make
  impact through producing employable graduates,
  high impact research and effective services to
  the industry and society
• Bridging the gap between theoretical research and
  applied technology and creating industry lab
  centers at Universities
• More focus on human capital and intangible
  assets to stimulate creativity and innovation
  fresh graduates and seniors given scholarships by
  industry to further develop practical invention
  to industry firms-
• Developing patents system in Muslim countries

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Within the selected institutions located in
different IDB regions the following axes could be
considered to upgrade the institutions to meet
the objective.

• Roadmap strategic axes

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Some vital interventions will be carried out for
upgrading the institutions including

• human resource development
• Strategic Alliances networking and Private Sector
  initiatives
• Financial resources
• Strategic Management
• Infrastructure
• Promoting community services.
• a monitoring and evaluating system will be
  established
• Setting up information dissemination tools.

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A focus on Human Resource Development is needed
through

• Enhance the curriculum to reflect labor market
  needs in the ST fields
• Update of teaching resources adopting IT
• Upgrade teaching staff through a planned
  staff-development plan
• Enhance research skills, teaching skills through
  training programs
• Continuous improvement of teaching processes and
  skills benefiting from the students feedback and
  teachers evaluation exercises
• Development of student-centered approach
  learning, promotion of analytical skills,
  critical thinking, learning motivation soft
  skills enhancement such as communication skills,
  presentation skills etc

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Building Strategic Alliances and Networking

• The shortcomings of science education systems
  in IDB member countries have been highlighted by
  the lack of entrepreneurship and innovation in
  the region.
• For innovation to take root
• The 'golden triangle' of academic institutions,
  governments and the private sector must cooperate
  in doing business.
• To establish partnership between the selected
  science and technology institutions and the
  private sector, it is crucial to base the
  development of S T on Building Strategic
  Alliances and Networking by preparing the
  following

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Directory of ST parks, incubators, and cities
in IDB member countries.

• This directory will highlight the important role
  of science parks in promoting the culture of
  innovation and competitiveness among businesses
  and knowledge-based institutions.
• It will be used as a guide to promote private
  sector involvement in the project as it will
  promote links between scientists at universities
  and RD institutions and science parks in IDB
  regions with the aim to facilitate the set up and
  development of innovation-based companies through
  incubation and spin-off processes.

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(b) System for promoting partnership
between private sector and universities.

• in abid to promote initiatives to encourage
  innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the
  Islamic world, an intelligence system will be
  developed for promoting universities-industry
  alliance depending on well-conceived procedures
  for gathering, mobilizing, evaluating, sorting
  and communicating information with the aim to
  convert it into knowledge that is relevant to the
  need of Islamic countries.
• To achieve that, a mechanism will be
  established for screening science and technology
  information from universities and cooperate with
  the private sector to set up commercially viable
  science-based enterprises with the aim to lay the
  foundations for science and technology-based
  "homegrown" entrepreneurial venture

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Online directory for ST associations, societies
and networks in IDB member countries.

• It will act as a guide to national and
  regional science and technology (ST)
  associations, societies and network to promote
  cooperation and collaboration among scientific,
  education, business and public communities in IDB
  member countries.

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The following interventions could be performed in
the selected science and technology institutions

• Directing curriculum towards the private sector
  needs.
• Preparing a scheme for Student placement in
  industry to produce ready industry graduates.
• Launching awareness program for private sector as
  well as researchers about the role of science in
  developing knowledge-based industry.
• Modifying the promotion roles of faculty and
  staff to make working with the private sector
  part of it.
• Preparing directory for staff with private sector
  experiences.
• Launching programs about science management and
  industrial innovation.
• Establishing a unit to be called (unit for
  investors) where investors can get all the
  necessary business-based information.
• Create academic chairs funded by the private
  sector

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(d) Financial Management Efficiency

• Developing a comprehensive strategic plan on the
  university revenues.
• Developing indicators to measure the level of
  success in using the financial resources to
  enhance science and technology.
• Budget allocation as block grants for focused
  areas

(e) Strategic Planning

• Formulation of vision and mission in the focused
  areas
• Central and unified mechanism of policy
  formulation
• Development of capability for autonomy management
  
• Instituting good governance principles
• Formulate a strategic planning for the focused
  areas

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(f) Physical Learning Environment

• Infrastructure needs adequate in the focused
  areas of the S T such as labs, state of the art
  equipment and facilities for research undertakings

(g) Promoting Community Services

• Setting up of websites to disseminate information
  
• Programs to introduce the focused areas
  discoveries to the community
• Introduce life-long learning for the public in
  the science and technology areas

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(h) Establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation
System.

• To ensure what is the current status and how much
  assistance required upgrading the
• institutions to attain the project objectives.
• A Quality Assurance System has to be incorporated
  so as the institutions can give
• transparent outlook to their undertakings.
• A quality capacity building should be designed
  and should include

• Quality management training
• Establishing quality assurance units in
  universities
• Preparing universities for accreditation by
  international accreditation Boards
• Integrated ISO training
• Promoting young scientists and scientific
  discoveries
• Creative thinking and quality initiatives
• Strategic planning
• Key performance indicators and quality
  measurement
• Quality audit
• Academic review reviewers, examiners, advisors
• Benchmarking
• Creative and innovative groups
• Human resources development
• Information capital capacity building
• Leadership and governance training

Integrated skills for academicians and
administrators
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Benchmarks need to be established as indicators
of the quality of the components and achievements
monitored.

• A culture of continuous improvement has to be
  instilled through the evaluation system among the
  measures to be taken such as
• Strategic planning
• Setting up key performance indicators
• Balanced score card
• Audit exercises
• Self assessment
• Surveys and feedback

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(i) Use of ICT. In addition to other measures,
the QW could set up a website to be used as a
tool for

• Communicating of the project to the potential
  donors,
• Disseminating the concept of the project,
• Promoting networking between concerned partners
  such as higher education institutions, science
  oriented private sector, science policy makers,
  .. etc.
• Stimulating the exchanges of ideas and flow of
  knowledge,
• Enhancing cooperation among IDB member countries
• Contributing towards innovation in the field of
  higher education as well as science and
  technology for development

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Higher education information center for IDB
member countries

• The online higher education information center
  for IDB member countries, which is the first in
  Islamic states, is ongoing effort to provide
  higher education policymakers, analysts, experts,
  scientists and technologists with the data and
  information needed to make sound educational
  policy decisions as well as promoting cooperation
  and knowledge transfer among IDB member
  countries.
• It includes the following
• Database for higher education strategies
• E-library for international reports on higher
  education

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ST higher education Innovation alliance
resources (IAR) 

• It includes the following
• Directory for world class universities
• It is ongoing effort to provide scientists,
  technologists, educationalists and policy makers
  in IDB-based universities and higher learning
  institutions with an invaluable information
  resources about the top 50 World class
  universities in international ranking systems
  located outside IDB member countries and foreign
  universities with branches located in IDB member
  countries to identify best practices from highly
  performing world class universities.
• Directory for ST associations, societies and
  networks
• Directory of science and technology parks,
  incubators and cities in IDB member countries
• E-bulletin (Achieving excellence in science and
  technology "ST" higher education)
• A monthly bulletin that monitors the
  development of ST within higher education sector
  in IDB Member Countries and disseminates
  information and knowledge generated from the QW
  project as well as promotes cooperation between
  learning institutions and industry to establish
  sustainable and innovation-based ST higher
  education system for development in the Islamic
  world.

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Ranking monitor for universities in IDB member
countries 

• It is ongoing effort to provide IDB-based
  universities with an invaluable tool for tracking
  changes over time in their regional and
  international standing and help academic and
  higher education policy makers in identifying the
  weakness and constraints that IDB-based
  universities are facing in terms of quality and
  efficiency as well as identifying best practices
  from highly performing world class universities.
• It includes the following
• (A) Regional ranking
• Ranking of SESRTCIC " Turkish-based Statistical,
  Economic and Social    Research and Training
  Center for Islamic Countries
• Ranking of COMSTECH "Pakistan-based OIC standing
  committee on scientific and technological
  cooperation"
• (B) International ranking
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• QS World University Rankings
• Webometrics Ranking
• Scientific research performance ranking
• Web-based popularity ranking

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Islamic intelligence system for promoting private
sector-universities partnership

• A model to promote links between selected
  universities and private sector in the fields of
  agriculture, nanotechnology and information
  communication technologies.
• At the implementation stage, The QW Project
  should establish a mechanism for screening
  science and technology information to help
  universities to cooperate with the private sector
  for presenting models for scientific creative
  ideas that could be transformed into products and
  processes as well as setting up commercially
  viable science-based enterprises.

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What is next?

• Once the following roadmap(s) is completed and
• cleared by the IDB Management..
• General roadmap for excellence in science and
  technology.
• Customized roadmaps
• Agriculture
• Nanotechnology
• Information and communication technologies
• We will start the gap analysis followed by the
  development of Pilot
• Projects in ST Higher Education.

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