| In line with IDB vision to become a knowledge- based bank, the e-monthly bulletin monitors the development of S&T within higher education sector in IDB Member Countries as well as disseminating information and knowledge generated from the QW Project to establish sustainable and innovation-based S&T higher education system for development in the Islamic world. |
Issue No.9
October 2009 |
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› Science education in IDB member countries |
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MALAYSIA: Knowledge hub in progress |
| Malaysia is developing an education city that it hopes will be partially operational by 2013. Located in Nusajaya, Iskandar Malaysia, the 129-hectare EduCity could eventually have eight universities, each with one spec ialised faculty, developed in two phases under a 10-year plan. |
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SAUDI ARABIA: 25-year plan for higher education |
| To promote a knowledge-based economy and move from oil to a worldwide centre for high-technology research, Saudi Arabia has announced a research initiative called 'Aafaq' or Horizons. The 25-year plan is intended to improve higher education opportunities for women, boost scientific research and tackle the country's shortage of scientists in critical fields. |
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IRAN: 20-year plan for knowledge-based economy |
| To promote a knowledge-based economy, Iran has announced a 20-year "comprehensive plan for science" focusing on science in higher education and industry-university research partnerships. |
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SYRIA: University-industry alliance to be established |
| Syria is to establish a new fund to support priority research, a university-industry alliance and an observatory for monitoring science progress, as part of its efforts to promote the development of an innovation-based economy through higher education reform. |
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AFRICA: Pan-African University to launch in 2010 |
| The Pan-African University, envisaged as a continental network of institutions training postgraduate students and promoting research, is set to open its doors to the first 100 students next February at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. The centre at Stellenbosch, one of five institutions that will host the project, will focus on space sciences. |
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Malaysia: Future hub of international education? |
| Malaysia will play host to an international education conference next month as part of its goal of becoming a regional hub for international higher education by 2010, with 100,000 students studying at its higher education institutions |
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AFRICA: Plan for 15 NextEinstein institutes |
| The innovative NextEinstein Initiative providing postgraduate training in mathematics and computing skills to super-bright African graduates is spreading its wings. The first African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa will be joined in 2011 by a new AIMS in Senegal, followed by institutes in Ethiopia and Ghana. Within a decade the AIMS NewEinstein Initiative plans to launch 15 institutes across Africa. |
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› Opinion |
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Global : University Rankings 2.0 |
| As the number of university rankings systems around the world has increased and spread, they have mutated; no longer are ranking systems simply clones of the original rankings such as US News and World Report. A number of different types of 'mutation' have occurred, so that there are now varieties of rankings around the world. This report describes these mutations and examines likely future developments in rankings as they continue to spread across the globe. |
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› Conferences on higher education |
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