Egypt New Law School Barred for a Decade Egypt’s once-elite law schools have experienced a serious deterioration in quality over the last few years, according to officials with the Ministry of Higher Education, an opinion that recently prompted Minister of Higher Education Hani Hilal to…
Russia Supplemental Science Research Funding Promised to Universities Despite increased funding in recent years, Russian science has not yet recovered from a near collapse in the 1990s and the consequent exodus of thousands of researchers to the West, according to a recent article in Nature…
Regional Transnational Distance Learning Project for Medical Studies Launched The inaugural class of students to take classes though a huge e-learning project based on the establishment of a North-South network of inter-university diplomas recently completed the project’s first online program in obstetrics ultrasound in Dakar,…
Regional Free Online Course Materials Multiply Across the Globe The Massachusetts Institute of Technology began the revolution in 2000 when it established its OpenCourseWare program through which many of the institution’s courses and materials were made freely available online. Today, schools — including top names…
Regional Study: Indian, Vietnamese Students Enamored with US as a Study Destination The Institute of International Education released two papers in February looking at how students from India and Vietnam select and perceive destinations for studying abroad. Among the Indian students surveyed, 91 percent listed…