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The paper examines the implications of the emerging forces behind the internationalization of high education. The paper suggests that in the immediate future , as in the recent past and present, universities in different parts of the world will be unequally integrated in to the new global system of transnational higher education . The challenge for Arab region is to stem current and forestall future international educational inequalities and hierarchies by revitalizing its own universities and building regional centers of excellence and systems of intra-regional and international academic mobility , exchange, collaboration, connectivity .and regulation that generate and sustain' empowering knowledge networks. Facing these challenges and in era of tightening budgets, universities and other institutions have often respond by conducting economic impact studies to justify governments expenditures on an economic basis. The paper is divided into seven parts. The first part gives introduction to the study; second, it discusses the state of higher education in the region. The third part, interrogates the implications of the changing world environment on the higher education market. Fourth part shows the Arab countries response in this challenged environment, and the recent educational reforms in the region. The fifth section deals with the conceptual link between higher education and economic growth. The sixth, section measures the economic impact of public expenditure on higher education in the Egyptian economy, the last section shows summary and conclusions.
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