On Sunday 10th December 2017, Professor Kevin Kinser – Department Head, Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University conducted a workshop entitled “Quality, Innovation and International Rankings: Defining World Class Universities in Egypt”. The workshop was held in collaboration with the American Embassy in Cairo under the umbrella of Community Service Sector at MIU. The aim of the workshop was to elaborate on the new realities of higher education, world class universities, internationalization, Quality Assurance in higher education, innovations in higher education and international university ranking. Deans, vice deans and staff members representing all faculties participated in the workshop. Two attendees evaluated the course as excellent, 8 attendees evaluated it as very good while two evaluated it as good. Only two attendees rated it as fair and the recommendation was to focus on the methods that should be applied by MIU so as to appear on the international ranking list.
