Iraq U.S. Schools Given Lead in ‘Modernizing’ Iraqi Higher Education U.S. universities will lead the effort of rebuilding Iraq’s war-torn higher-education sector. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in June asked U.S.-accredited institutions of higher education to submit bids for a US$30 million scheme…
Egypt Education Reforms Aided by Training in England A British-led consortium has won a lucrative contract to train future managers of Egypt’s ambitious educational reform project. More than 600 Egyptian education managers will be trained in northeast England and a further 900 in Egypt. The…
Regional Need for Regional Accreditation Agencies Addressed The Eighth Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting of higher education ministers ended in March with a resolution to open agencies for the accreditation of academic programs in universities throughout the Persian Gulf region. The meeting laid the groundwork…
Regional AOU Expands With 3 New Campuses Students from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt will soon be able to study at new regional campuses of Arab Open University (AOU), which begins its second semester in February. Based in Kuwait, AOU opened last October with branches…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Iran UNESCO to Open Educational Training Institute UNESCO will open the region’s first educational training institute in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The institute, scheduled to open in September,…