Regional Universities Offer Free Tuition to Internationals in Hunt for Talented Graduate Students Would-be engineering and science graduate students are taking up high-paying positions in the nation’s booming resources industries leaving universities facing a shortage of local talent in those fields and forcing them to…
Regional EU Countries Missing European Education Benchmarks European countries have achieved just one of five education benchmarks that the European Union wants met by the end of the decade, while progress toward the other four has been moderate, according to a recent report from the…
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…
Azerbaijan Universities to Work Toward Bologna Reform Goals A government working group has been established to develop a raft of higher education reforms after a decree was signed by President Ilham Aliyev at the end of January, according to Trend News. The reforms will be…
Regional East African Council Issues New Quality Assurance Guidelines The Inter-University Council of East Africa has issued quality guidelines to be adopted by higher education regulators in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The guidelines are to be used as the criteria for licensing and accrediting university-level…