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INDIA: Higher education opportunities lure back talent
More young Indians are giving up fat pay packets in companies abroad...
GREECE: Glory of the Greek language
Greece is not currently popular in European financial circles. But t...
EUROPE: Outer Space research seeks US partners
The European Union has called on American universities, research lab...
CANADA: Universities receive health research funding
The Canadian government has announced a major $13 million (US$12.5 million) investment in healthcare-related studies in 12 universities across the country.
One example is funding of $1.7 million fr...
EUROPE: Three-legged dogs needed for robot research
European scientists are looking for three-legged dogs to support a E...
SOUTH AFRICA: Rhodes student in nano-tech breakthrough
Rhodes University PhD chemistry student Samuel Chigome has made a ma...
EGYPT: Government axes 'non-regular' student system
A recent decision by Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education has landed Fathi Mokhtar, a 45-year-old employee at a telecommunications company in Cairo, in a dilemma. Over the past two years, Mo...
KENYA: Students warned against some foreign colleges
Kenya's higher education authorities have cautioned students against...
ZIMBABWE: Brain drain initiative draws academics
An initiative to fight the brain drain from Zimbabwe is beginning to...
TUNISA: Initiatives tackle graduate unemployment
Tunisia has launched a plan to help university graduates face the challenges of finding a job in their own field. This is in a context of widespread unemployment and intense competition in a job ma...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lack of science hampers development
A recent study that measures the scientific performance of Southern ...
SOUTH AFRICA: Universities raise admission standards
Several universities in South Africa, worried that continuing high fa...
KENYA: MBA course competition hot as demand grows
Kenya's universities are expanding their facilities and seeking coll...
NIGERIA: Controversy over student dress codes
A debate in Nigeria over student dress codes rages on - running the gamut from student academic achievement, discipline, professionalism, conformity with social mores and clothes-as-political-state...
CÔTE D'IVOIRE: Unesco bioethics chair installed
The official installation of Unesco's first francophone Africa chair...
AFRICA: Higher education is financially unsustainable
As a doorstop for one of the minor entrances to Valhalla, ...
SENEGAL: Students refuse to pay fees increase
PhD students at the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty of UCAD, the Université Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, are under pressure from the authorities because they are refusing to pay "ridiculous" i...
ANGOLA: Adventists to build university
The Seventh Day Adventist Church is to build a US$10 million university campus for 3,000 students in Huambo, reported ...
OECD: International students stay on as migrants
Rich countries have brought in measures to encourage international s...
GLOBAL: New code to promote academic honesty
New international guidelines and a voluntary code on research integrity are being drawn up as a result of consultations at the Second World Conference on Scientific Integrity held in Singapore on 2...