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Job Skills in Demand: Insights from the World Economic Forum
Students choosing a career and workers seeking to retrain could find guidance in recent reports about the job skills most…
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Covid-19 School Closures Could Cost $17 Trillion in Lost Earnings, Report Says
Students hit by Covid-19 school closures face $17 trillion loss in lifetime earnings, says a new report from the World…
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Libyan Professors May Finally Get Raises Under New Agreement
Libyan professors have been promised raises before. Their syndicate tried a new approach this time that is expected to pay…
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Syrian Publishers and Bookstores Become Casualties of War
Several prominent Syrian publishing houses and bookstores have closed in recent years, the latest signs of cultural death in an…
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Lebanese Education Sector Faces ‘Big and Grave’ Losses, Experts Say
Lebanon’s multiple crises have taken an invisible and immeasurable toll on education, researchers and professors say.
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Hana Al-Omair Leads the New Saudi Cinema Association
Funding is the biggest challenge for the Saudi movie industry, says the chairwoman of the new Saudi Cinema Association.
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Tough Issues Await Nathir Obeidat, New President of the University of Jordan
Nathir Obeidat recently became president of a university struggling with debt, Covid-19 hurdles, and other hotspot issues.
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Jordan’s Plan to Reduce Unemployment by Cutting Some Majors Stirs Doubts
The strategy cuts some majors and adds new, career-centered ones based on job-market needs. Some academics doubt that it will…
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Lebanese Cinema Faces Existential Crisis With Country’s Financial Collapse
Deprived of local audiences and sponsors, the industry has had to turn to foreign investors, with a threat to its…
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Unpaid Professors in Northern Yemen Threaten Strike, Putting Academic Year at Risk
After five years of unpaid work, university professors in Yemen’s rebel-held north threaten to go on strike.
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