Fast Forwarding Higher Education Institutions for Global Challenges : Perspectives and Approaches

This book addresses various 21st century questions and challenges, especially the role of technology in upgrading teaching and learning in today’s society, and the role of higher education institutions in improving standards of living, economics, society and sustainability. It shares with readers the challenges of globalization to higher institutions concerning the issues relating to value creation management, branding and the impact on leadership in higher institutions.

Ismail Hussein Amzat obtained his Bachelor degree from Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt, Master degree from International Islamic University Malaysia and Doctoral degree from University Malaysia. He is a current senior visiting lecturer of Educational Management at the Universiti Utara Malaysia (Malaysian Northern University) and previously a lecturer at UCSI, Twintech, Taj College and a teacher at the Islamic and International schools in Malaysia. He was also a visiting Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has vast experience in research on educational leadership and management and has published quite reasonable papers in many reputable journals indexed in Scopus and ISI on university management, school leadership, job satisfaction and decision-making.

Byabazaire Yusuf, Ph.D. is currently a senior faculty member at the School of Education and Modern Languages (SEML), College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Kedah, Malaysia. He has worked in various school settings and higher education institutions for more than 15 years. He handles fundamentals of instructional technology, ICT in education and multimedia for education and training at graduate level. Areas of keen research interest include; ICT integration in education, special needs education and library and information science. He completed his PhD in Instructional Technology at the University of Malaya in 2010.