Egypt New Law School Barred for a Decade Egypt’s once-elite law schools have experienced a serious deterioration in quality over the last few years, according to officials with the Ministry of Higher Education, an opinion that recently prompted Minister of Higher Education Hani Hilal to…
Russia Supplemental Science Research Funding Promised to Universities Despite increased funding in recent years, Russian science has not yet recovered from a near collapse in the 1990s and the consequent exodus of thousands of researchers to the West, according to a recent article in Nature…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews Students graduating from the Taiwanese education system do so with some of the highest scores in the world on comparative international tests, especially in more technical fields such as mathematics and science. However, a criticism of…
Regional Transnational Distance Learning Project for Medical Studies Launched The inaugural class of students to take classes though a huge e-learning project based on the establishment of a North-South network of inter-university diplomas recently completed the project’s first online program in obstetrics ultrasound in Dakar,…
Regional Free Online Course Materials Multiply Across the Globe The Massachusetts Institute of Technology began the revolution in 2000 when it established its OpenCourseWare program through which many of the institution’s courses and materials were made freely available online. Today, schools — including top names…