Regional GEMS Founder to Develop New International Chain of Schools Two of the world’s leading education entrepreneurs are to partner in building 60 multimillion-dollar, high-end international schools in big cities across the world that will cater to the children of bankers, diplomats and executives who…
Introduction Responding to huge growth in demand for tertiary-level studies across Central America in recent decades, universities and colleges have been opening in ever increasing numbers. The response has mainly come from the private sector, however, and has occurred with very little regulatory oversight. Traditionally,…
Regional Central Asian Women Choosing Home over Classroom For many girls in Central Asia, schooling ends after the secondary level. With poor job opportunities, many families in these post-Soviet republics choose not to invest in tertiary education for their daughters. In July, hundreds of thousand…
By Jane Knight SICA and CAT are new tools that have been developed to help create a common academic credit system and a “community of higher education” in Latin America. SICA stands for Sistema de Creditos Academicos (System for Academic Credits) and CAT is an…
Regional African Universities Packed to the Rafters, Falling Down According to a feature-length report in the New York Times, Africa’s best universities, “the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals,” are collapsing. The article…