Tunisian private universities eye West African market

By Nico Cloete. With 82,000 young Ivorians passing the school-leaving baccalauréat examination, giving them the right to higher education, but only 30,000 places available in the country’s universities, private Tunisian universities are hoping to attract them – and to extend their offerings to other countries in the region.
With schooling in Côte d’Ivoire recently made compulsory until the age of 16, nearly 5,000 Tunisian schoolteachers could find posts in Ivorian schools, according to La Presse de Tunisie. Read more...