The Challenges of Building a University System in a Non-Democratic Government

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Is it even possible that they try to do this? Is the credibility gap too strong? How much money do they need? I'm not quite sure what success, but there's surely the King Abdullah University of Science Technology has been hiring a lot of top people in the sciences. The Russians have a program to try to provide incentives for their leading universities to hire on the international market and integrate that with local professors. But it's still very early in the game,. And it's always a challenge.

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Recorded October 30th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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