The plan also focuses on sharing information about trends and ways to strengthen higher education, and building cooperation between universities in Turkey and the Arab world’s 22 states, which include eight countries in Africa, six in the Arabian Gulf and eight in Asia.

These and other findings came to light in the 2014 Global DBA Survey, conducted from October 2013 to April 2014 and published last week.

. “We asked parliament to allocate quotas for women, for both higher education and for scholarships, but those quotas are not being met,” she said.

The letter was extensively commented on in major international media like the Financial Times, Guardian, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, South China Morning Post, Handelsblatt and numerous other news sites, blog-pages and internet links.

. Rehman was defending Junaid Hafeez, a visiting lecturer in the English department at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan. Hafeez had been held for more than a year on blasphemy charges

These trends have meant unprecedented support for graduate education or, as a just-released UNESCO report puts it, “to expand out" (increase undergraduate enrolment), "higher education systems had to expand up” into higher quality postgraduate education and research.

The US$ 1 million comes from Japan. The ceremony took place on 5 May at the Department of Environment (DoE) with the presence of Vice-President and Head of DoE, Dr. Masoumeh Ebtekar, with Mr. Akira Chiba, Charge D’affairs of the Embassy of Japan, the media and UN officials.

In March of this year, and at the request of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran the UNDP Iran Country Office invited a number of eminent international and national experts to share their experiences and solutions to help formulate a set of specific practical recommendations for Lake Urmia and the Hamoun wetlands in Iran. These…

In a visit to the Tasnim News Agency office in Tehran, Garry Lewis said the United Nations office in Iran has mainly focused its activities on helping the country deal with natural disasters

Global Perspectives on International Joint and Double Degree Programs was conceived as an orientation for higher education institutions, government agencies and other organisations. It contains essays by 33 experts from six regions across the world.

"We have made the National Board of Accreditation totally autonomous, and we are in the process of making the National Assessment and Accreditation Council independent," Higher Education Secretary Ashok Thakur announced while addressing a world summit on accreditation in New Delhi last week.

Since RUFORUM started it has supported training of 1,197 masters and 197 PhD graduates in the agricultural sector. This year the forum marks 10 years as a network of universities and 22 years of tacking tertiary agricultural education issues in East, Central and Southern Africa.

The last segregation move involves the law faculty at the University of Sirte, as reported on 15 April by the Libya Herald.

Speaking at the London launch on 28 April Vassiliou, European commissioner for education, culture, multilingualism and youth, said Erasmus+ was the start of “a new chapter in a fantastic success story”.

There are as many as 75,000 Nigerians in tertiary institutions in neighbouring Ghana, which is known for providing friendly working and living conditions for foreign students.