Benchmarking the Higher Education Institutions in Egypt using Composite Index Model

Abstract

Egypt has the largest and most significant higher educationsystem in the Middle East and North Africa but ithad been continuously facing serious and accumulated challenges. The Higher Education Institutions in Egypt are undergoing important changes involving the development of performance, they are implementing strategies to enhance the overall performance of their universities using ICT, but still the gap between what is existing and what is supposed to be for theself-regulation and improvement processesis not entirely clearto face these challenges. The using ofstrategiccomparativeanalysis model and tools toevaluate thecurrent and future stateswill affect the overall performance of universities and shape new paradigms in development of Higher EducationSystem (HES), severalstudies have investigated the evaluation of universities through the development and use of ranking and benchmarksystems