Regional Working Through Roadblocks to Educational Harmonization in East Africa The East African region has a history of educational cooperation. Until the late 1960s, education in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya was a driving force behind the unification of the three nations of the East African…
Brazil DeVry Buys Education Company DeVry Inc. announced in March that it is buying a 70 percent stake in Fanor, a Brazilian higher-education company with colleges enrolling approximately 10,000 students. DeVry said in a news release that it would pay $23.5 million in cash, and…
Regional Demand for Higher Education Brings Change The recently held Asia-Pacific Sub-regional Preparatory Conference for UNESCO’s 2009 World Conference on Higher Education in Macao, China concluded that the Asian region is facing unprecedented growth in demand for higher education services and countries are looking for…
Regional Mobility Scheme Named as a Driving Force Behind Broader Reforms A new report states that the European Union’s flagship higher education mobility and cooperation program has been a driving force behind the remake of European higher education. The report says that the Erasmus program…
By Ivan Leban, Professor at the University of Ljubljana1 Higher education in Slovenia A Slovenian chemist by profession, I have taught chemistry and crystallography at the University of Ljubljana for 36 years. Influenced by my own international experience as a Ph.D. student in the United…