Much of the news surrounding the University of California system has involved whether the network of universities will be able to survive its current budgetary crisis without shrinking in size or q...

For generations of pre-med students, three things have been as certain as death and taxes: organic chemistry, physics and the Medical College Admission Test, known by its dread-inducing acronym, th...

Bangladesh's Finance Minister AMA Muhith last week ruled out the possibility of exempting non-government universities from 15% income tax and other taxes in the current fiscal year, reports ...

Icelandic Minister for Education and Culture, Katrin Jakobsdottir, has provided a small grant to help investigate the role of Icelandic universities in the country's economic collapse, reports ...

The largest ever investment in research and innovation by the Europe...

The annual Panhellenic Examinations results were announced on time by the Greek education ministry despite fears that they would not be ready due to threatened industrial action over a pay dispute....

German Federal Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan has d...

Development aid from donor countries to Africa is usually directed to issues identified as priorities in the home country's development agenda - issues such as HIV and Aids, poverty reduction, prim...

Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will ini...

Kenya is to spend US$56 million in donor funding to strengthen vocational and technical training countrywide, and help boost the country's skills base. The plan includes building new technical inst...

Tunisia has adopted the 12th development plan for 2010-14 with a focus on higher education. The aim is to transform the national economy into a model driven by innovation and knowledge, in a countr...

Zimbabwe's government has closed 106 'illegal' private colleges coun...

Nigeria's government has started disbursing funds to selected public tertiary institutions to help them fast-track the development of teaching, research and infrastructure including student hostels...

The Canadian government has awarded C$20 million (US$19.4 million) o...

Hossam Safwat has just passed secondary school certificate examinati...

A regional centre to help develop renewable energy and promote workforce development in the 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States, ...

The French-speaking University Agency, AUF, and the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries have signed a partnership ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Minister of Higher Education and Universities Professor Léonard Mashako Mamba has met funding agencies and other partners to present policies and reforms for whic...

In the latest of a number of violent demonstrations students at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar went on the rampage this month, setting fire and causing other damage to university offices,...

The focus is on rationalising higher education courses and on qualifications to respond to the needs of the labour market in the 2010 guide to university courses published by Tunisia's Ministry of ...