September 28, 2001

Jordan Re-establishes Education Ministry

By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

Jordan has re-established its Ministry of Higher Education, seeking to regulate universities that many say have drifted into chaos.

The ministry, eliminated in the mid-1990s by King Hussein I, was reinstated earlier this month by royal decree. The ministry was originally dissolved as a cost-cutting measure and as an effort to grant greater freedom to the kingdom's universities. State-run universities had established their own boards of trustees to manage administrative matters that had

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