By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews In 2003, the government of Kenya instituted a free primary education for all program, and then did the same for secondary education in 2008. As a result, nearly three million more students were enrolled in primary school…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews Scores of countries, regions and cities around the world have established or declared their intentions to establish themselves as regional or global education hubs. Typically sponsored and subsidized (to varying degrees) by local governments, the goal…
By Yuanyuan Fang, Megha Roy, Alejandro Ortiz, Research & Advisory Services, WES The number of international students from just a few countries on major U.S. campuses has increased to such a level that headlines such as “The University of China at Illinois” have been appearing…
Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews The West African Examination Council (WAEC) conducts examinations in the five Anglophone countries of West Africa. In this article we offer a country-by-country overview of the school systems and corresponding WAEC credentials in Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and…
By Megha Roy, Research & Advisory Services, WES From 2008 to 2012, the number of Nigerian students studying overseas at the tertiary level grew 98 percent (UIS 2012), with 14 percent of the total overseas body attending a U.S. institution of higher education. Enrollments have…