By . Sometimes technology just breathes quietly in the background, and growls with power only when you need it to.
That’s the hope for the United Arab Emirates academic network, known as Ankabut. More...
23 mars 2015
23 mars 2015
NYU Professor Blocked From Traveling to UAE
By . Some scholars are calling into question the level of academic freedom granted to researchers at New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi, after one of the university’s professors was not allowed to board a flight from J.F.K. airport to the emirate on Saturday night. More...
22 mars 2015
More cross-border campuses in the Arab states
By Wagdy Sawahel. In a move aimed at easing Western sanctions and its economic isolation, along with promoting higher education development and regional cooperation, Iran is continuing to establish more branch campuses of its universities across the Arab states.Earlier this month, a senior official in Iran’s ministry of energy said a technical university specialising in the power industry and renewable energy sources would be built in Iraq. Read more...
8 mars 2015
Qatar’s Universities: Too Expensive for Many Expats
By Eman Kamel, Shereena Qazi. Optimism filled the air as prospective students and their parents gathered at an education fair last fall to learn about some of the nation’s best universities. More...8 mars 2015
The Arab World Lags Behind in the ‘Green’ Universities Movement
By . University rankings are a popular way to gauge the academic prowess of schools, but a new report released last January rates the environmental sustainability of campuses across the globe.Unsurprisingly, it shows that the Arab world could do better. More...
8 mars 2015
Research chairs act as catalyst for development
By Adamu A Ahmed. As the concept of a knowledge-based economy gains greater purchase among the public, several countries have taken steps to transform their universities in line with national goals and global competitiveness. Read more...1 mars 2015
Israel is still banning Gaza students from West Bank universities
By Ben White. Palestinian students from Gaza are still prevented by Israel from studying at West Bank universities, after an announcement this week to the contrary was retracted as a mistake.
On Wednesday, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced that a quota of 50 students would be permitted to exit Gaza "for the purpose of academic studies" in the West Bank. However, as related by NGO Gisha, the very same evening, COGAT clarified that there had been a "clerical error" in the relevant document, and that there would be no such permits. More...
1 mars 2015
‘World’s Largest University’ Is Scamming Students, Investigation Reveals
By Andy Thomason. A website that calls itself the “world’s largest university” is scamming students in the Middle East and elsewhere with promises of generous financial aid and degrees that turn out to be fake, an investigation by Al-Fanar Media reveals. More...
28 février 2015
MENA top 30 snapshot released as THE MENA Universities Summit launches
By . Institutions from 11 countries feature in a top 30 that previews what a new ranking of universities in the Middle East and North Africa could look like. More...
28 février 2015
THE Ranking for Middle East and North Africa
Times Higher Education (THE) has unveiled a ranking of 30 MENA (Middle East and North Africa) universities at the MENA Universities Summit in Doha, Qatar. The ranking contains a single indicator, research impact, which is measured by field normalised citations of papers in the Scopus database. In addition, data on the number of publications over a five year period is provided although they are not used for ranking. THE describes the ranking as “a snapshot of what a new ranking of universities in the Middle East and North Africa could look like.”
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