Bahrain NYIT Builds on Success in Middle East After opening its first campus in the Middle East in 2003 with an initial enrollment of 17 students, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) has already outgrown its campus and has announced plans to establish a…
Regional G8 Leaders Pay Lip Service to Science, Technology Following the conclusions of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa (see March/April 2005 issue of WENR), which argues that specific action to strengthen science, engineering and technology capacity is “an imperative for Africa,” a…
Regional MIT Links Electronically with Region’s Universities Students at three universities in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria will soon be able to access five Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) labs via the Internet to perform sophisticated science and engineering experiments. The collaboration of MIT’s Center for…
Egypt Russian University to Open A Russian university is set to open in the outskirts of Cairo this fall, according to reports in the Russian media. The Russia-Egypt University, which is located 45 kilometers from Cairo in Badr, will house faculties of engineering, tourism management,…
Regional Commission: $5 Billion Commitment Needed for African Universities Funding from developed nations toward the long-term development of African universities should total no less than US$5 billion over the next 10 years, recommends a report released in March by the Commission for Africa, which was…