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…
Chechnya Agreement in Place to Rebuild Education System An aide-memoire was signed March 14 between Vladimir Filipov, minister of education of the Russian Federation, and Koichiro Matsuura, the UNESCO director-general charged with reinforcing cooperation on the restoration of the education system in the Republic of…
Regional International Donors Set 7 Nations on Education Fast-Track Representatives of the international donor community agreed recently in Brussels to help seven developing countries in Africa and Latin America make their education plans a reality. Work is now proceeding to build the required capacity and…
Brazil Teaching Hospitals Call State of Emergency Twenty of 45 university teaching hospitals controlled by Brazil’s Education Ministry have declared a state of emergency after cutting essential services in response to mounting debt. — The Times Higher Education Supplement Dec. 13, 2002 Canada Undergraduate Admissions…
Regional Purdue Team Helping Rebuild Afghan Higher Education A Purdue University graduate and two faculty members recently returned from Kabul after participating in ongoing efforts to rebuild higher education in Afghanistan. Graduate student Wasim Anwar, engineering faculty member Ray Eberts and professor of agricultural economics…