David Court, World Bank A high degree of consensus exists among educational leaders and scholars in Africa about the challenges facing the development of higher education–in countries not suffering from civil turmoil. The list is easily drawn: to move from an elite to a mass…
by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUR MOST RECENT PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN GHANA Ghana’s system of education has undergone several stages of restructuring over the past 25 years or so. The most dramatic change entailed phasing out the O-level and A-level system…
Canada According to statistics published in a recent study, New Brunswick’s institutions of education offer more online courses per capita than any other province or state in North America. According to TeleEducation NB, the distance education arm of the New Brunswick Department of Education, which…
China A total of 2,300 Chinese students and scholars will be selected to study abroad this year. The Ministry of Education is also increasing the number of scholarships allocated to students destined to study in the United States and nine other western countries. In addition,…
Egypt President Hosni Mubarak outlined plans to computerize Egypt’s education system during the country’s first conference in information technology (IT) held last September. The Ministry of Education, in coordination with the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center (RITSEC), recently furnished 2,000 schools with IT…