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SAUDI ARABIA: Rapid growth for universities
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| Saudi Arabia has announced plans to continue the rapid expansion of higher education as part of its ninth five-year development plan, for 2010-14. A nearly quarter billion dollar annual investment in science and technology research will help strengthen the country's growing international position in innovation capacity.
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Quality Assurance in Postgraduate Education
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| This report focuses on postgraduate education in Europe, its evolution and major challenges for quality assurance. It presents national experiences and approaches to quality assurance of postgraduate education and offers viewpoints from the main stakeholders in higher education, namely higher education institutions, doctoral candidates, and quality assurance agencies. This report contributes to the important debate on quality assurance of postgraduate education and will hopefully provide insight into the future direction of this dynamic topic.
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University Ranking Watch
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| A blog devoted to the analysis and discussion of university rankings and other topics related to the quality of higher education.
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TUNISA: Initiatives tackle graduate unemployment
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| Tunisia has launched a plan to help university graduates face the challenges of finding a job in their own field. This is in a context of widespread unemployment and intense competition in a job market ravaged by the global economic crisis. Students also have few academic choices and university autonomy is limited.
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TUNISIA: Higher education key to new development plan
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| Tunisia has adopted the 12th development plan for 2010-14 with a focus on higher education. The aim is to transform the national economy into a model driven by innovation and knowledge, in a country ranked the most improved in technology-readiness in Africa.
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ABU DHABI: US$1 billion higher education plan
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| The government of Abu Dhabi has launched its first higher education strategy reform. This aims to build research capabilities to help sustain a shift away from Abu Dhabi's oil-based economy and establish an innovation-based and knowledge-producing society.
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EGYPT: University cooperation to ease Nile Basin row
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| Egypt plans to promote higher education cooperation with seven upstream Nile Basin states in a diplomatic move to strengthen strategic, economic and cultural relations. The aim is to ease tension sparked by a new pact calling for equitable water use, which Egypt perceives as being against its interests.
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