Call for help for HE in nations emerging from conflict

By Katherine Forestier. Policy-makers and academic leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of the Congo used the Going Global 2013 platform to call for more international collaboration and support to help rebuild higher education systems ravaged by conflict. Dr Obaidullah Obaid, minister of higher education for Afghanistan and the survivor of an assassination attempt last year, said his country needed to build on the expansion of provision that had taken place during the past decade by focusing on quality, and he called for more international partnerships to achieve that. Afghanistan was preparing to move to English as the medium of instruction so it could be part of the international education and scientific community and offer joint programmes, he said. Read more...