Australia Tough Year Continues for Australian International Education Sector with Closure of 9 Private Colleges Nine private vocational colleges in Melbourne and Sydney closed with little to no warning in early November, leaving almost 5,000 students academically stranded weeks before they were to have completed…
Regional Business School Leaders Vote for Harvard The Harvard Business School was voted the best in the world by leaders from more than 300 business schools in the 2009 Eduniversal global ranking of 1,000 business schools. The French company released the results of the vote…
Regional Region in Talks with China to Build Science Links Chinese and Arab universities developed plans to build scientific research links at the Forum on Chinese-Arab Co-operation in Fields of Scientific Research, held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum in November. According to the Xinhua…
Regional HP and UNESCO Continue Work to Increase Regional ‘Brain Gain’ Hewlett-Packard and UNESCO announced in October the expansion of their joint ‘Brain Gain initiative’ from five universities in the pilot phase to 15 additional institutions of higher education in the Middle East and Africa…
Azerbaijan Increased Scholarships for Students Overseas Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Education has announced plans to increase funds by 30 percent for students who study abroad. Officials also noted that the number of foreign students studying in Azerbaijan has increased thanks to programs such as oil studies….