Regional G8 to Promote Investment in Arab Education Leaders of the G8 nations renewed their commitment to promoting investment in innovation and higher education, and supporting university-industry partnerships across the Middle East and North Africa at a recent meeting in June. The G8 declared that…
Estonia New Accreditation Procedures The Quality Assessment Council of Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA) adopted new regulations on the institutional accreditation of Estonian institutions of higher education in April. The new procedures, which will begin this year, will replace the previous model of study…
By Dr. Philip Rayner & Prof. Kate Ashcroft Background Higher education has only been available in Ethiopia to most qualified school leavers since the early 1990s when the current Government, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) led by Meles Zenawi, overthrew the hard-line Marxist…
Regional Lessons Learned From U.S. Foundations’ Cooperative Efforts in Africa Higher Education Last year, after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic efforts to develop African higher education, the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa disbanded, leaving behind a long list of…
Regional Dual Degrees Gain in Popularity Worldwide, Less so in the US The New York Times reports that U.S. institutions of higher education are behind the trend curve when it comes to developing joint- and dual-degree programs, which currently are much more popular in Asia,…