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TUNISIA: Universities to act against high-tech cheating
Tunisia's Ministry of Education plans to counter student cheating with measures including cell-phone jamming and campaigns that warn of dishonesty's consequences. The battle will begin by preventin...
EGYPT: Fish college to cut reliance on red meat
A recent hike in prices of beef products in Egypt has angered many i...
EGYPT-FRANCE: Boost to higher education cooperation
Egypt and France have agreed to boost collaboration between higher education institutions in the fields of science and technology. An agreement was signed by Egyptian Higher Education Minister Hani...
SOUTH AFRICA: Call for research grant applications
A developmental initiative that includes universities in South Africa, India and Brazil and seeks to promote South-South cooperation, is calling for applications from South African researchers. Des...
SOUTH AFRICA: Incentive system bad for scholarship
Research has become, over the last decade or so, a commodity in Sout...
EGYPT-JAPAN: Joint science and technology university
Senior Egyptian and Japanese officials attended the inauguration of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, known as E-JUST, in Cairo last Wednesday.
The groups involved in establishi...
BURKINA FASO-FRANCE: Rising urban obesity alert
The number of town-dwellers in developing countries is expected to double between 2000 and 2025. With rapid urbanisation comes a change of eating habits - and not for the better, as more meat, fat,...
SENEGAL: Academic urges African research upgrade
African countries must upgrade their research activities if they are...
DR CONGO: Accord to boost women's higher studies
The United Nations Development Programme last month signed an agreement with Congolese universities to promote the higher education of women, as part of a wider action plan, reported ...
US: Research universities at risk, warns chancellor
US research universities are under threat from the recession and soc...
INDIA: Reducing student loan burden
Education Minister Kapil Sibal has unveiled measures to reduce the burden of education loans on poorer families. They are among policies to increase the proportion of young people in higher educati...
GERMANY: More funds pledged at Bologna conference
Education Minister Annette Schavan has pledged extra funding of EUR2...
NEW ZEALAND: Universities raise entry requirements
Some of New Zealand's eight universities are raising their entry req...
NORWAY: Need to retain young researchers
Early stage researchers in Norway enjoy the highest starting salarie...
EURO-MED: Plan for higher education and research
The 43 member states of the Union for the Mediterranean are planning...
NORWAY: International Polar Year conference
The largest conference to be held with polar and climate researchers...
INDIA: Rapid growth but misalignment
Higher education enrolments in India reached 15 million this year. This is just four million short of US enrolments, but corresponds to a gross enrolment ratio of only 14% compared with 82% in the ...
INDIA: Staking home for an education
When Abhishek Kundu approached the State Bank of India for an educat...