By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework The Higher Education Act of 1990 introduced a structure of higher education featuring a two-tiered system of undergraduate and graduate degrees in contrast to the pre-1989 system based on the five-year integrated Soviet model. It also guaranteed…
Angola UNICEF Workshops to Train Teachers Angola has been at peace for almost two years, and after 27 years of fighting, the government has committed US$44 million to get 1 million grade-schoolers back in class within a year. International children’s charity UNICEF will train 29,000…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Canada Universities Adapt to Competition with US for Graduate Students To remain competitive with the United States, some Canadian universities are offering postgraduates guaranteed funding. The University of Alberta…
Afghanistan Education Struggles to Rebuild After almost 25 years of warfare, Afghanistan is now battling to restore a shattered educational infrastructure. The central challenge is coping with the so-called “lost generation” of students who have had their education put on hold by conflict. Education was…
Regional Pan-Arab Education Reform At a recent summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a body that links six oil-rich Arab monarchies, Saudi Arabia’s rulers joined in a common pledge to reform religious education across the region. The Shura Council — the Saudi Parliament whose members…