Regional Computer Network Link to Boost African Research Capacity A high-speed computer network will increase African research capacity by allowing scholars based on the continent to share information and data with the rest of the world. The link will connect the UbuntuNet Alliance, which covers…
Regional World’s 7th Largest Bank Partners with US College to Support Higher Education in South America Banco Santander, the world’s seventh largest bank by profit, and Babson College announced a partnership recently to support academic programs in South America in the areas of entrepreneurship and…
Regional Universities Offer Free Tuition to Internationals in Hunt for Talented Graduate Students Would-be engineering and science graduate students are taking up high-paying positions in the nation’s booming resources industries leaving universities facing a shortage of local talent in those fields and forcing them to…
Regional EU Countries Missing European Education Benchmarks European countries have achieved just one of five education benchmarks that the European Union wants met by the end of the decade, while progress toward the other four has been moderate, according to a recent report from the…
Regional World Bank: Arab Education in Need of Drastic Reform The World Bank released a report in February that says that the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment. Bank…