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Its Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry says that Malaysian private universities offer low quality education at an exorbitant fee.
The Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry decided on Monday to put an end to new Yemeni government scholarships to private Malaysian universities due to the private universities’ poor educational quality and high costs, the ministry said. It has also decided to withdraw financial support from students at any level (graduate or undergraduate) if their academic performance has been less than excellent. More...

More than 300 undergraduate students from 24 universities across Australia will soon set off to study abroad in the Indo-Pacific region under the Australian government’s A$100 million ($90 million) New Colombo Plan.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Education Minister Christopher Pyne and parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Brett Mason announced Wednesday that 24 universities have been successful in their applications for New Colombo Plan mobility grants to support students commencing study programs in semester 1, 2014. More...

On February 12, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings launched the Arab World Learning Barometer, a new report and online interactive that show how the challenges in providing good-quality education in the Middle East and North Africa threaten to undermine the region's economic growth and political stability. Expert panelists discussed the links between education and employment, with a special focus on the region's youth bulge and its particular implications. Get full event audio and video here. A recap of the opening portion of the event appears below. More...

By Nicholas Franco. The oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf are trying to diversify their economies fast — Lamborghini fast — and that spells opportunity for edtech companies. That is precisely why I found myself in Dubai last December representing ConnectEDU at an educational technology conference.
Consider the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where unemployment among UAE nationals is trending north of 12%, and 70% of the employed population works in the public sector. Remove oil revenues from the equation and the model gets dicey quickly (images of Tahrir Square come to mind). More...

Schemes to encourage international students to enroll in New Zealand universities have been given a $465,000 funding boost today.
The Government will fund 12 new growth initiatives in the international higher education sector, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce said. More...