Mark, I honestly don’t know how it is that all ur comments seem to relate to some piece i am writing or another! Either my blogposts reflect seeds of my ideas and your comments show ur thinking along the same lines, or we read the same things (i have had an article in draft about standardization and when i read articles on Al-Fanar about accreditation of Arab Univs, i edited it to fit that context – let’s see how it ends up published, if at all). Then i see ur comment here 🙂