By Nick Clark, Editor, WENR and Ari Mihael, Assistant Director and Area Specialist, WES CLICK TO ACCESS OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA Universities around the world have seen huge increases in the numbers of Saudi students enrolling on their campuses over the…
Yoko Kono, Research Associate, WES Research and Advisory Services, Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews Since 1989, information specialists at World Education Services (WES) have been using and maintaining a state-of-the-art credential evaluation database known as AICES (Automated International Credential Evaluation System) to…
By WES Staff CLICK HERE FOR OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA What follows is a quick primer on the academic systems of three states in the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. While education authorities in these states…
By Lubna Shah Anwar, Educational Consultant at the US Embassy in Lahore, and Nick Clark, WENR Editor Over the past four years, Pakistan has increased its spending on higher education by more than 700 percent and the government appears determined to reverse years of underinvestment…
By Robert Sedgwick CLICK HERE TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Originally published in the January/February 2005 issue of WENR Pakistan currently suffers from large fiscal and trade deficits, the absence of a strong middle class and weak foreign investment. Economic growth…