Regional Student Protesters in North African Arab States Focus on Reform Students in Egypt are viewing the country’s recent youth-led revolution as a real, and long-awaited opportunity to reform higher education. Across the Middle East, the story is the same: hundreds of thousands of young…
Russia U.S.-Russian Academic Collaboration Gathers Steam In April, several Russian university presidents said that the current closer relationship with the United States was helping them build stronger ties to American higher education, with a focus on expanding research collaboration and embracing something close to an…
Regional West African Region Receives Grant to Implement Bologna Structure Based on the European ‘Bologna’ structure, the African Development Bank has provided US$52 million toward the harmonization of higher education reforms in the eight countries belonging to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)….
Regional University Rankings Proliferate Across Lain America Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru each have at least one national ranking. Some are in their first year, others are more seasoned, and all use different approaches to evaluate their higher-education institutions. A few, such as in…
Regional US Mission to Vietnam, Indonesia Looks to Build Educational Ties In early April, a US trade mission conducted a weeklong trip to two of the fastest-growing markets in Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Led by the US Department of Commerce’s Under Secretary for International Trade…