Iraq First Round of Iraqi Scholarship Winners Set to Arrive on US Campuses The first round of Iraqi students on a new and ambitious government-sponsored scholarship program will be arriving at U.S. campuses throughout the country in the next few weeks. The program, the Iraq…
Egypt New Law School Barred for a Decade Egypt’s once-elite law schools have experienced a serious deterioration in quality over the last few years, according to officials with the Ministry of Higher Education, an opinion that recently prompted Minister of Higher Education Hani Hilal to…
Regional World Bank Offers Bleak Assessment of Education in the Arab World According to a recent report from the World Bank, the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment and…
Israel Academics Oppose West Bank University A total of 250 academics representing universities and colleges in Israel have signed a letter that was sent to the Council for Higher Education urging it not to recognize the college in the West Bank town of Ariel as…
Bahrain Government Lifts Ban on 4 Private Universities A ban on four private universities by the Higher Education Council in Bahrain has been lifted after they met demands to improve their administrative and academic standards. The Council has allowed the Kingdom University, Applied Sciences University,…