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Nov./Dec.
2001
Volume 14
Issue 6
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Education
in Saudi Arabia
by
Robert Sedgwick
The
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 and occupies about four-fifths
of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered on the west by the Red Sea; on
the north by Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait; on the east by the Arabian Gulf,
Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman; and on the south by Yemen.
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AMERICAS:
Engineering Goes Global
Old
Dominion University, in conjunction with eight universities from
Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden
and Switzerland, recently created a master's degree program in global
engineering.
This
program allows students to spend one semester at Old Dominion in
Virginia and two semesters abroad at the university of their choice.
The
participating universities are members of the International Network
for Higher Education in Engineering.
Project
management, computer engineering and telecommunications are some
of the courses offered at Old Dominion; course offerings at the
European institutions include product innovation, biomedical engineering
and technical informatics in engineering.
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Sub-Saharan
Africa: The State of Public Higher Education and the Emergence of Private
Sector Universities
by Kingsley
Banya
It
is generally accepted that higher education in sub-Saharan Africa is in
deep turmoil. The crisis is manifested in declining quality standards,
fiscal challenges, increased student enrollments, poor faculty moral,
irrelevant curricula and rising unemployment among university graduates.
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