Addressing delegates attending Education International’s “Unite for Quality Education” conference held from 27-30 May in Montreal, Canada, the federation’s General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen called for a new push for quality education through enhanced access, innovative resources, teacher education and supportive learning environments

The long arm of Thailand’s military regime is attempting to extend its reach, with pressure being exerted on Thai students and scholars overseas.

Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, chair of the Planet Earth Institute, a UK-based non-profit organisation, said the research priorities for ARCHES were being refined but the focus would be on primary and public health priorities in Mozambique, alongside environmental sciences related to core national industries such as oil and gas and mining.

. Mutharika, younger brother of Malawi’s former president Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office in 2012 while grooming his sibling to run for president in this year’s polls, defeated former president Joyce Banda in elections held late last month

So unpopular has the government become as a result of a budget that has slashed spending and increased charges for students, parents and pensioners that if an election were held now, it would be thrown out of office.

Current rector Giannis Mylopoulos, whose term of office is rapidly coming to an end, recently wrote that “according to the new legal system the university authorities will no longer be elected by a direct and democratic vote but indirectly through a system of pre-selection which will be carried out – without specific criteria – by the…

An estimated €200 million to €300 million a year will be allocated as grants to students whose families earn less than €46,000 a year. The rest, said Bussemaker, will be ploughed back into higher education to improve quality

University Chancellor Wallberg will be in charge of the Swedish Higher Education Authority and its 90 staff members.

. Arabic is one of the top six languages of the United Nations and is the mother tongue to more than 350 million people in 22 Arab countries including eight in Africa, six in the Arabian Gulf and eight in Asia. Arabic is the seventh most used language on the internet after English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and German. Edraak

. The project was unveiled at an event in Jordan from 2-4 May and is outlined on the website of the Association of Arab Universities

. Following six months of street protests and violence involving grenades and bombings in Bangkok, the military junta led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha decided to take over the country, after military-led attempts to have all political sides negotiate failed.

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Amid controversy about the new education minister’s lack of academic qualifications, Irani, who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, said the government would try to fulfill all promises the party made in its election manifesto.

Authorities in the two West African countries have agreed to implement the Arusha Convention on recognition of higher education qualifications in Africa, with a view to improving the portability of degrees and tackling problems in many private universities in Ghana, where Nigerian enrolments are on the rise

Chiara Mio and Achille Giacometti of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice set out the case for embedding sustainability during the IREG-7 conference in London this month, arguing that it was possible to reach agreement on metrics that would produce the required data