1. “ What is the Purpose of
Higher Education ”

2. “ Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use to
change the world
Nelson Mandela
”

3. Now, I am going to talk about and the
cultural differences and similarities
between these two great countries

4. Higher Education in Kuwait
• There are four state-supported higher
education institutions in Kuwait.
1. Kuwait University
2. The College of Basic Education in PAAET
3. Higher Institute for Theater Arts
4. Higher Institute of Music Arts

5. Private Post-secondary Colleges
• In addition, there are a number of private post-
secondary colleges and universities that are approved
by the Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education:
• Gulf University for Sciences and Technology.
• Australian College of Kuwait.
• American University of Kuwait.
• Gulf American College.
• Maastricht School for MBA.
• Box-Hill College for Girls.

6. Higher education in Kuwait
• In the academic year 2005/06, the total
enrollment within these institutions
reached 27,308, an increase of 7 percent
from the previous year
• The proportion of females in the
undergraduate studies is 70 percent.

7. In KUWAIT educational policy seeks
to provide opportunity to
ALL CHILDREN,
irrespective of their social class. So is
in USA

8. There is Co-Education in Kuwait like in USA

9. Higher education in the United States
• Higher education in the United States includes a
variety of institutions of higher education
• According to the Shanghai Jiao Tong
University's Academic Ranking of World
Universities, more than 30 of the highest-ranked
45 institutions are in the United States (as
measured by awards and research output)

10. Bureau of Statistics
• As of 2010, the US had 20.3 million students
in higher education, roughly 5.7% of the total
population
• The 2006 American Community
Survey conducted by the United States
Census Bureau found that
– 19.5 percent of the population had attended
college but had no degree
– 7.4 percent held an associate's degree
– 17.1 percent held a bachelor's degree
– 9.9 percent held a graduate or professional
degree

11. Bureau of Statistics
• However, in USA despite increasing
economic incentives for people to obtain
college degrees, the percentage of people
graduating from high school and college
has been declining as of 2008

12. “ Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
”
working together is success.
Henry Ford

13. THE PURPOSE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION…

15. College graduates
have the potential
for greater annual
and lifetime earnings
than high school
graduates, and
those financial
benefits tend to
increase over time.

17. To educate leaders in our
democracy
Thomas Jefferson
famously wanted the
United States to be led by
a “natural aristocracy” of
“virtue and talent” rather
than an “artificial
aristocracy” based on
wealth and birth

18. Voting is very important for a
democracy’s political life, and
college graduates seem to
understand that better than high
school grads. College graduates
are more likely to vote

19. Higher learning helps strengthen
communities

20. The Goal of Higher Education is to
Produce Good Citizens

21. To Understand the World
As Louis Menand has written in
The New Yorker magazine, college is a
time for you to learn “things about the
world and yourself that, if you do not
learn them in college, you are unlikely
to learn anywhere else.”

22. When students experience Higher
Education, they have the opportunity to
read books and listen to the lectures of
top experts in their fields. This
stimulation encourages students to
think, ask questions, and explore new
ideas, which allows for additional
growth and development

23. My husband did not go to college. He works for
SEPTA [the local transit authority] and he has
advanced in salary and promotions along the
way, but he has always said he would have
made so much more money if he did have his
college degree.
-- Woman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.highereducation.org/reports/expectations/expectations5.shtml

24. “ Today you don't even question whether
you are going to college. It's the sign of
the times. When I was growing up what
was important was to make the home
front, with marriage and children, but
”
today it is
College.

25. Thank You