Egyptian Vocational Education Largely Fails the Country’s Youth
Vocational education’s goal of giving young people practical skills that would make them desirable to employers isn’t working out in Egypt.
Egypt Plans Radical Change in Measuring High-School Success
Egypt’s ministry of education plans to depart from the exclusive reliance on a single exam at the end of high school.
Rising Tuition in Jordan Highlights Flawed University Finances
With dwindling government support, Jordanian universities says they have few places to turn but tuition to finance academic programs. Students say are being unfairly sacrificed.
New ‘Education Passport’ Is Tested in Greece
A Norwegian project to hold a refugee’s academic history in a single document and to simplify admission to higher education in host countries is catching on.
Zig-Zagging Government Policies Hurt Jordanian Vocational Education
Constantly changing government decisions have discouraged students from pursuing vocational and technical professions.
You Can Combine Motherhood and Study
A Ph.D. candidate and mother of two young children says reaching her academic goal has been difficult but it can be done.
Egyptian Universities See Boom in Foreign Students
Low fees and breadth of choice have led to a huge rise in Arab and foreign students in Egypt.
Troubled Times for African and Arab Students in Tunisia
Tunisian universities attract many international students. The visitors praise the universities, but complain of racism and other obstacles.
Leaked Questions and Answers Disrupt National Exams
In Egypt and Algeria, students are cheating on high-school exit examinations using websites that leak exam information.
Conflict Escalates Between Lebanon’s Teachers and the Government
Lebanese school exam results, required for students to enroll in universities, are caught in an ongoing fight over salaries for the country’s public workers.
