By . The United States and Egypt announced a multi-million dollar higher education initiative at a long-delayed launch event Sunday, marking a milestone for educational ties between the two nations and expanding academic opportunities for Egyptian students to study at home and abroad. More...
By Maysa Jalbout. “The Arab world has made huge progress in giving children access to school,” says Maysa Jalbout, a nonresident fellow with the Center for Universal Education at Brookings. Yet even so, she calls the 2.6 million Syrian children out of school in the region “perhaps the biggest education crisis globally.” In the podcast, Jalbout—former CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation and a global leader on education in international development—discusses the challenges and solutions to educating children in the Arab world, why quality and not just access matters, how the education crisis is a global security issue, and why 3 out of 4 Arab women remain out of the labor force in their countries. Much of the discussion is about Jalbout’s new report, “Reaching all Children with Education in Lebanon: Opportunities for Action.” More...
By Amy Baker. An investigative firm which had been commissioned to look into allegations of mistreatment of construction workers at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus found that about one-third of the migrant construction workers employed on the project did not benefit from US labour guidelines because their contracts fell below financial or time-related thresholds. More...
The Ministry of higher education, scientific research and the training of executives and Microsoft Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday in Rabat providing for promoting and developing the use of new information and communication technologies in higher education.
Signed by the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training, Lahcen Daoudi, and general manager at Microsoft Morocco, Samir Benmakhlouf, the agreement aims to facilitate access to new technologies in universities and to encourage creativity and innovation among Moroccan students. More...
By Abdul Ghafour. Realizing the decades-old dream of expat parents, a Saudi business group led by Prince Saud bin Musaed has taken the initiative to open an international university in Jeddah, offering degrees in engineering, automobile mechanics and business management. More...
By Deborah Amos. Once a sleepy border town, Reyhanli, Turkey, is now bursting with Syrian refugees, many of them school-age. More than half a million Syrian refugee children are out of school, and the education crisis is fueling an epidemic of early marriage, child labor and bleak futures. More...
By John Traxler. The phrase “Digital Life and Mobile Learning” is intended to summarise the tensions and paradox between two powerful and significant ideas.
These ideas are, on the one hand, the attempts in schools, colleges and universities around the world to use personal mobile devices to finally deliver learning ‘anywhere, anytime’, as promised 20 years ago by the e-learning missionaries and visionaries, and, on the other hand, the reality of people outside these institutions, using the same mobile technologies to create, transform, discuss, discard, share, store and transmit ideas, opinions, images and information. Read more...
By Sarah Macdonald. Lithuania and Oman will be enhancing their educational ties following a visit to the Sultanate by the Baltic country's Minister of Education and Science.
Dainius Pavalkis, Lithuania's Minister of Education and Science, visited Oman this week to meet with his counterparts and establish a number of areas in which the two countries can work together. More...
By Rasha Faek. A new report examining the treatment of workers who built the NYU Abu Dhabi campus has highlighted, in effect, the broader issue of protections needed for the laborers building the rapidly expanding number of universities and cultural institutions in Gulf countries. More...By Eman Kamel. In an attempt to make learning law more practical and less theoretical, teams from eight Arab universities participated in the second regional Arabic Moot Court Competition here earlier this month. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
