The Education Revolution in the Gulf - A Guide
"We will map the situation in the Gulf, showing the current higher education developments and their historical roots in the neighboring Gulf states."
The governments of the Arabian Gulf states have long been planning for the post-oil era. The name of the resource from which their new wealth will flow is 'education'. The Arab ruling families are determinedly promoting the structural change from an oil-based economy to a knowledge-based economy with the goal of creating a knowledge based society.
In march 2009, with the launch of the German-Oriental Society for Higher Education, the foundation members reacted to the development of education policy in the Gulf and put the mutual impact of orient and occident in history and today on their agenda: "The future of any culture lies in education. Only committed promotion of this vital asset empowers progress."

With the guide "Die Bildungsrevolution am Golf" / "The Education Revolution in the Gulf", the chairman of the DOGfB Dr Frank Höselbarth has published a book leading through the university landscape of the eight states neighbouring the Persian Gulf. He presents the main research topics of particular universities, but also offers an overview of the entire development in academics of the respective country. At the same time, he demonstrates that the visionary Sheikhs regard German universities as their partner of choice in the transfer of knowledge and are prepared to enrich the dominant Anglo-American culture of the university sector with elements from the land of Humboldt.