Australia Funding Crisis in Education Has Many Worried Last fall, students, faculty and university administrators around the country made it clear to the government: Make education a priority. The demand was backed by much of the business community, including media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who called…
France France to Make Postgraduate Diplomas more Practically Oriented France’s National Council for Higher Education and Research (CNESER) has adopted two reform measures aimed at complying with the Bologna Declaration. One of the new decrees will introduce a postgraduate Mastaire, while the second is geared…
Israel Galillee College Welcomes Palestinian and Jordanian Senior Managers For the first time since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, a group of 25 senior Palestinian and Jordanian officials have begun teaching advanced management training courses at Galillee College in Israel. Participants…
Georgia Shevardnadze Quells Student Protest President Eduard Shevardnadze met with students on the campus of Tbilisi State University in a last-ditch attempt to quell the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations, which threaten his administration. The meeting concluded with Shevardnadze promising to set up a student…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Ghana Ghana School Offers Classes on Internet In September 2002, the Africa Institute of Journalism and Communication in Accra, Ghana, will offer distance learning diplomas and certificates in journalism,…