Kazakhstan Higher Education and Science Cooperation Agreement Signed with Jordan Jordan and Kazakhstan have agreed to cooperate in science, technology and innovation as well as higher education. This agreement was announced during the two-day visit in August of Jordan’s King Abdullah II to Astana, the…
Regional Private Money Increasingly Funding Higher Education Worldwide, 4 European Countries Aside College enrollments have boomed in many countries across the globe, and increasingly it is private money in the form of tuition, business ties and institutional fundraising that is paying for it, as public…
Belarus Expelled Belarusian Students to Study in Poland The coordinator of the Belarusian opposition’s committee for support of political victims, Ala Karol, told the Belapan news agency on August 6 that 44 students who were expelled from Belarusian universities will be provided with training under…
Regional Research Council Reports Strong Interest from Overseas Grant Applicants The European Research Council (ERC) received 9,167 proposals in response to its first call for proposals. Among those received, a significant number came from outside the EU, according to the ERC. Officially launched in 2007,…
Regional Central Asian Women Choosing Home over Classroom For many girls in Central Asia, schooling ends after the secondary level. With poor job opportunities, many families in these post-Soviet republics choose not to invest in tertiary education for their daughters. In July, hundreds of thousand…