The influential of International trends on Egyptian higher education from Perspectives of Social Justice and Quality

Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: Egypt is one of the Arab developing countries that began establishing higher education earlier than most Arab countries. It used to be a source of educational, scientific, and culture diffusion to the Arab world. Thus, it is our expectation that Egypt should occupy a high status in higher education. However, the status of Egyptian higher education now is unsatisfactory, compared to Egypt’s past and rapid, successive global developments. This status is based on lack of two basic elements- Equity and Quality. So the researcher will begin with brief of the notions of social justice and quality in higher education. Then, I will introduce an overview of the developments in Egyptian higher education in relation to equity and quality. In the third and fourth parts of this paper, the researcher will identify some trends of some international organizations about the equity and quality, which give us two essential aspects: First, to determine what we mean by equity and quality. Second, to explore and find out which of these global and international trends are more influential in the development of higher education decision-making and policy in Egypt. Then, I will deal with and evaluate the developments of Egyptian higher education from the perspective of quality and equity. In the end, the researcher will present the conclusions that include some suggestions to improve equity and quality of Egyptian higher education, which includes