By . The journey to completing higher education does not seem possible for many students with disabilities in Egypt. Many of those students face increasing challenges, including university facilities that cannot accommodate them, the lack of the necessary educational preparation, and laws that limit their educational and employment opportunities. More...
By . In March of this year, the Syrian army retook Palmyra, once dubbed the “Bride of the Desert,” ending nearly a year of occupation and destruction by the Islamic State. More...
By . A conference on “The Civic Role of Arab Universities,” held April 21-April 22 by the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES) in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB), helped ground that critique in a real-world perspective. More...
By . A billionaire Emirati industrialist started the region’s largest scholarship fund last week. Abdulla Al Ghurair—who made his fortune in iron, steel and banking—has set aside a third of his family’s wealth to get tens of thousands of Arab students enrolled in universities to get science and engineering degrees. The Abdulla al Ghurair Foundation for Education has an initial budget of $1.14 billion for the next ten years, which the foundation’s chief operating officer Maysa Jalbout says will allow 15,000 underprivileged Arab students to go to university. More...
By . The New York Institute of Technology does not, despite its name, bind its identity to the famous American state. With a significant presence in Abu Dhabi and six other foreign countries, it views itself as an international institution that has transcended the branch-campus model. More...
By . Back in 2003, Adel Sharif began working on an idea to change the way salt is extracted out of seawater to supply fresh water. Instead of pushing it through a membrane, which catches the salty compounds, he thought about pulling it. More...
By . Say it quietly, but evolutionary research does takes place in the Arab world. The subject is highly sensitive, rejected by many officials and religious scholars for its perceived atheism. Yet with the right backing and the right connections it can be undertaken, even in the religiously conservative Gulf states. More...
By Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Dana C. Perantie, Samuel H. Taylor, Shenyang Guo and Ramesh Raghavan. This study is one of the first to evaluate whether racial disparities in education debt extend to a low- and moderate-income (LMI) population. With data from a national sample of LMI households in the Refund to Savings study (N = 17,684), we employ a two-part modeling approach with a matching-estimator robustness check to estimate racial and ethnic variation in education debt. More...
By . Last week I listened in on the Department of Education’s contentious negotiated rulemaking session. The topic of debate was the “supplement-not-supplant” provision of the Title I program—a bedrock of the newly reauthorized Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) designed to help low-income students by funneling aid to school districts based on student demographics. More...
By . The sad truth, however, is that a substantial share of these students who go on to college won’t actually earn their degree. More...
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