With an eye on the 18 percent unemployment rate among Iraqi youth – which soars even higher among youth with a higher education – an international non-governmental organization has begun setting up career centers at Iraqi universities.
An EU-financed program, Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians (HOPES), has been established to assist Syrian students in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt. HOPES will fund 400 students’ education, and provide educational counseling for 42,000 more.
Amid several recent reports of a worldwide network of fake online universities, Kuwait has decided to prosecute 259 fraudulent-degree holders. In a 2015 New York Times article exposing…
Amid plummeting oil prices, Saudi youth may see an end to long-standing social entitlements such as fully funded international scholarships and secure government jobs.
The Times Higher Education’s unveiled its preliminary ranking of the top 15 universities in the Arab world in late January. None of the 15 made it into the THE’s list of top 300 institutions…