Regional Internationally Mobile Student Numbers Continue to Rise The number of international students around the world is continuing to rise sharply, with provisional figures from Unesco’s Institute for Statistics showing an annual increase of 12 percent. The final figures for 2009, to be published in…
Regional English-language Provision Proving Somewhat Problematic The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that there are more than 2,000 English-language university programs being taught in Europe as universities look to diversify their student body and raise their international profiles. However, there are problems associated with teaching…
Iraq 15 New Universities by 2020 Iraq’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced recently a plan to create 15 new universities by 2020. The expansion plan, announced by Ali Al-Adeeb in February, will complement an existing initiative to improve quality standards at current…
Belarus Academics and Students Call for Reform Leading Belarusian academics have made urgent calls for reform of higher education in the country amid international concern about the treatment of students and scholars who opposed the recent re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. Mr Lukashenko has been…
Regional African Quality Rating System to Launch in 2011 The African Union aims to launch an initiative in 2011 that seeks to assess the comparative quality of institutions of higher education across the continent. The African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM) is being developed as an…