By Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUT LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Pakistan currently suffers from large fiscal and trade deficits, the absence of a strong middle class and weak foreign investment. Economic growth is sluggish with 48 million Pakistanis (33 percent…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUT LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDSLegislative Framework The Dutch higher education system is a binary system consisting of a university sector, which includes 14 universities, and the non-university sector known as hoger beroepsonderwijs (HBO)…
By Mariam Assefa, Executive Director, WES, and Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR I. Introduction Since the signing of the Bologna Declaration in 1999, Europe has gradually been moving toward a two-tiered system of higher education based on separate bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Countries that have the…
By Nick Clark, Assistant Editor, WENR Legislative Framework In 1992 the Czech and Slovak Federation was dissolved and each republic became independent. In both republics the same higher education reform was passed in 1991. The new law abolished central planning by the ministries and re-established…
By Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR Across the Atlantic, unbeknownst to many Americans, higher education in Europe is undergoing a profound transformation. More and more countries are uprooting their traditional systems of education, which feature long degrees, in favor of a two-tiered model based on bachelor’s…