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JORDON-FRANCE: Joint nuclear science university |
| In an announcement by the country's Atomic Commission on 19 January, Jordan said it plans to create a Jordanian-French university specialising in nuclear sciences and research to develop scientific human resources in Jordan and the Arab world. |
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SAUDI ARABIA: Observatory on higher education |
| Saudi Arabia now has a national body for higher education that includes student experiences, courses, planning, assessment and evaluation. The Observatory on Higher Education was launched last Tuesday at an international exhibition on higher education in Riyadh. |
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NORTH AFRICA: Digital education plan approved |
| The five countries of the Arab Maghreb Union - Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania - and five European countries, France, Spain, Italy, Malta and Portugal, have agreed to cooperate to promote digital education in universities, research institutes and schools to try and bridge the 'digital gap' between Europeans and Maghreb residents |
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Fostering Innovation in Higher Education |
| It outlines theories on the entrepreneurial mindset as driver in new knowledge creation and innovation and shows how they can be mapped to an academic setting. |
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AFGHANISTAN: Five-year higher education plan |
| Afghanistan has launched aUS$560 million five-year national higher education plan to redirect universities towards producing graduates relevant to the market as well as providing scientific solutions for key economic and social problems. |
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MALAYSIA: Promoting technology-based innovation |
| Malaysia has launched a scheme for promoting universities-industry alliances as well as accelerating national innovation and commercialisation activities. These include the inauguration of a nanotechnology association and the establishment of a National Innovation Centre along with a network of centres of innovation excellence. |
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Free video lectures |
| It contains free video lectures in several scientific fields including biotechnology, computer sciences, medicines, mathematics and physics. |
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AFRICA: Science, technology and innovation observatory |
| An African Observatory on Science, Technology and Innovation is to be established. For the first time Africa will have a facility to monitor scientific and technological development that will be the continent's central repository for S&T statistics and the main source of policy advice for bodies such as the African Ministerial Council for Science and Technology. |
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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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GLOBAL: Establishing world-class universities |
| Most nations want one but few can seriously entertain the thought of establishing a world-class university, let alone sustain the resources and results needed to hold their position. That is the take-away message from Jamil Salmi, the World Bank's tertiary education coordinator, in this impressive monograph, The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities. |
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