Denmark New Accreditation Body Established The Danish government has established a new Accreditation body, called ACE Denmark, which will review quality standards at the country’s institutions of higher education. Approvals will depend on whether programs meet certain quality standards and if they have relevance to…
Regional Australia Gaining Appeal vs. US for Arab Students Facing increased scrutiny from immigration authorities in the United States, a generation of Arab men who once attended college in the United States, and returned home to become leaders in the Middle East, increasingly is sending…
Regional New Central Asian University Looking to Break with Past The sparsely populated mountainous regions of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will soon play host to an ambitious three-campus university being built with funding from the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community….
Veronica Lasanowski, Research Officer, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Vietnam Re-confirms its Long-term Strategic Higher Education Ambitions Earlier this month, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training sponsored the country’s first major education event of the year, the National Conference on Improving Higher Education Quality….
Botswana Botswana, South Africa Agree to Cooperate in Quality Assurance The Tertiary Education Council (TEC) of Botswana has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Council for Higher Education (CHE) of South Africa that would ease cross-border academic mobility between the two countries. The…