Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Regional Regional Mountain University Inaugurated The University of Central Asia (see WENR Sept/Oct 2002), high in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, will be the first university specifically for mountain…
By Richard Garrett China is perhaps the world’s most complex, overhyped, and underanalyzed market for transnational higher education. The country’s size combined with China’s transition from a command to a pseudomarket economy and potential as a superpower, has prompted many higher education institutions in the…
Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Libya’s population of approximately 5.5 million includes 1.7 million students, over 270,000 of whom study at the tertiary level. In academic year 1975/76 the number of university students was estimated to be 13,418. Today, this number has increased to more…
Regional AVU Plans Expansion African Virtual University is expanding the sphere and content of its operations to students in 22 of the continent’s countries as part of a four-year partnership with Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University to deliver computer-science degrees and diplomas. Working…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Brazil University Graduates Struggling to Find Jobs The traditional notion that a university education guarantees a good job is fast being dismantled in Brazil, where unemployment among university graduates…