The Arab world [control education]

Since the 1960s, the Arab World´s educational system has witnessed major transformations. Motivated by economic growth as well as the eradication of illiteracy, the countries of the region embarked, each according to its means, on a bold educational experience. Universal education has been achieved in all countries of the region, and higher education has flourished in most of them. In order to respond to the increasing needs in skilled manpower, for their developing economies, engineering education has been strongly supported by the region´s planners. This article briefly reviews the salient points of education in the Arab region, with emphasis on engineering education, especially control education. It is stated that since reviewing the educational systems of 21 countries in a single article is quite difficult, if not impossible, whenever possible the article tries to present the similarities in a unified manner, sometimes at the expense of accuracy, and resorts to examples when differences are difficult to merge into a common picture