Regional Continental University Research Alliance Launched Fifteen universities from eight African countries launched an alliance of research universities at the recent African Higher Education Summit in Senegal’s capital Dakar. The focus of the group will be to build African research excellence as a “vital precondition”…
Brazil French Business School to Open Brazil Campus French business school, SKEMA, recently announced that it will open its first campus in Latin America near Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), ranked as Latin America’s best business school by the Financial…
Afghanistan Private Universities to Pick Up Capacity Slack Afghan authorities announced recently that more than 130,000 students, a third of them female, had passed exams to enter university in the upcoming academic year, bringing into focus Afghanistan’s challenges with rebuilding its education system. With state…
Regional Nordic Countries Lead Europe for English-Language Provision The Nordic region has the greatest proportion of English-taught programs in Europe at the higher education level, according to a recent study by the Academic Cooperation Association. The report, English-Taught Programs in European Higher Education, found that 61 percent of…
Regional Network of Diploma Mills Preys on Students from Middle East A global network of fraudulent online universities is using high-pressure sales tactics and phony scholarships to extract money from students who end up with worthless degrees, according to Al-Fanar Media. MUST University appears to…