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Higher Education (HE) institutions foster intellectual growth, cultural awareness, social interaction, and personal change. Besides graduating productive students, the universities’ role has developed to include the development of the surrounding community; what the UNESCO called the “Third Mission” (UNESCO, The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Lifelong Learning, 2015).
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Taraman, S. (2017). Students’ Perceptions of the Quality of Higher Education. In: Megahed, N. (eds) Education during the Time of the Revolution in Egypt. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-206-0_8
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