Regional Business Schools Laying the Foundations for New Market Not long ago, one of the few places in the region teaching graduate-level business programs was Egypt’s American University of Cairo. Times are changing, reports Business Week, and enthusiasm for Western-style management education – master’s in…
Belarus Authorities Shutter Independent University Belarusian authorities ordered the closure of one of the country’s only privately funded universities, it was reported in late July. European Humanities University (EHU) is the second university to be shuttered in the past year; authorities closed the country’s only…
Ghana UMES Inks 3 Agreements Three institutions —Golden Beach Hotels, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology — have signed separate memorandums of understanding for linkage agreements with the University of Maryland Eastern Shores (UMES). The UMES/UCC agreement…
Regional Central American Accreditation Agency Begins Work In the making for more than three years, the Consejo Centroamericano de Acreditación de la Educación Superior (Central American Accreditation Council (CCA) recently began operations to raise the level of higher education to internationally competitive standards through the…
Australia Increased Scrutiny of Offshore Programs Causing Concern As some overseas authorities move to tighten requirements for foreign providers, the Australian government is facing increasing pressure to guarantee the quality of courses offered by Australian institutions overseas. But universities, some of which already have been…