United Arab Emirates Canadian Branch Campus Shuts Up Shop After just three years, Canada’s University of Waterloo is giving up on its Dubai campus after enrolling only 30 percent of the student population required to keep the campus afloat. The Ontario-based university said that it…
Iran Collapse of Rial Renders A Foreign Education Unaffordable Iranian students looking to study abroad, or already doing so, are watching helplessly as Western sanctions and the abolition of a government policy that helped students meet their costs, have made a foreign degree so expensive…
Regional Islamic Nations Look to Build Education Cooperation The Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced a higher education exchange program, which is being designed to encourage scholarships, faculty exchanges, and collaboration on distance learning methods and research projects among its 57 member countries….
Israel West Bank University Center Granted Full University Status A special board that oversees Israeli higher education on the West Bank granted fully-fledged university status to the Ariel University Center in July. The decision overruled an earlier recommendation from the Council for Higher Education –…
Qatar Houston Community College Graduates First Qatar Cohort In September 2010, Qatar partnered with Houston Community College (HCC) and opened the Community College of Qatar (CCQ), the country’s first such college. In May of this year, less than two years after CCQ opened, 11 students…