Some Islamic Higher Education Strategies to Tackle and Take Opportunities in the Era of Globalization

Abstract

Some experts say that globalization can not be avoided. All aspects in the life influenced by globalization values. The awareness of globalization causes broader knowledge of men for gaining something better. Everywhere people start talking about quality, the academic quality as well as the quality of services. People start to compare good product and a no good/bad quality product, between good and bad ideas in this era. The characteristics of globalization era are borderless, the crisis of moral and ethics, the weakness of nation identity, mega-competition, and knowledge society. This paper talks about the characteristic and objective of Islam  and how the Islamic higher education faces some challenges in the globalization era. As an Islamic education institution, the Islamic higher education attempts  to develop its human resources (lecturers and  non-lecturers) and  contribute best services  to the students  to prepare their future. Doing that it has to restructure all the aspects either in the field of curriculum or lecturer quality. There are two ways to face globalization challenges in Islamic higher education, first, developing human resources and, second, changing the traditional education paradigm to the modern one.

Keywords : Islamic Education, Globalization