Jordan Tertiary Enrollments Quadruple in 17 Years, Labor Market Can’t Keep Up The number of tertiary-level students in Jordan has skyrocketed from approximately 40,000 to 160,000 in 17 years, while the number of universities has increased from four to 26 over the same timeframe. Unfortunately,…
Regional Intel Announces Plans to Train 2 Million Arabs US-based microprocessor giant Intel and United Arab Emirates-based Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation have announced plans to train two million teachers in the Arab world by 2011, according to a report from the WAM news…
Israel Report: Number of Israeli Scholars in the U.S. is Equal to 25% of those in Israel According to the findings of a new report on the Israeli brain drain, the number of Israeli academics working in the United States is roughly equivalent to 25…
Regional World Bank: Arab Education in Need of Drastic Reform The World Bank released a report in February that says that the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment. Bank…
Regional Australia Gaining Appeal vs. US for Arab Students Facing increased scrutiny from immigration authorities in the United States, a generation of Arab men who once attended college in the United States, and returned home to become leaders in the Middle East, increasingly is sending…