Regional Arab Universities Move up in Global Rankings The Times Higher Education released a list this week of what it believes to be the best 801 universities in the world. While they may not occupy high up positions, the United Arab Emirates University and the…
Regional Proposals to boost African universities Recommendations for strengthening African universities were agreed at a high-level event titled “A Strategy to Strengthen Higher Education in Africa for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals” last weekend, held alongside the United Nations General Assembly meeting to adopt…
Regional A new ‘third pole’ in higher education Asia is becoming a ‘third pole’ in higher education, as the bipolar world of higher education previously dominated by Europe and North America is set to change, a conference organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
Regional Live where you learn This week, Kaplan International Colleges and Bournemouth University officially opened a £100m, 16floor, live-learn facility on the university’s Lansdowne campus. The center will house teaching and learning facilities for students attending the pathway college KIC opened at Bournemouth in 2013….
Brazil Exposing the dangers of fictitious study abroad programs Students visiting a BMI fair in Brazil last month were offered fictitious study abroad options by children’s charity UNICEF, in order to highlight the struggles young people face in other parts of the world. As part…