Regional UNESCO Council Tackles Digital Divide In 2000, only 0.4 percent of people living in sub-Saharan Africa were Internet users, compared to 54.3 percent of U.S. residents. Seeking ways to redress the imbalance, experts from 26 countries recently gathered in Paris for the first meeting…
Regional Virtual library To Host World’s Oldest Texts Online A handful of historians are using the Internet to assemble a virtual library of thousands of clay tablets inscribed with the world’s oldest written language, cuneiform. Started in 1998, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative has recently…
Australia Online Program Covers Aboriginal Group’s Language, Culture Northern Territory University in Darwin has created a distance-education program to teach students one of the world’s oldest aboriginal languages. The program began this year, and some 50 students are currently enrolled, the majority of whom are…
Regional Three Universities Team Up for European MBA Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom, the University of Mannheim in Germany and ESSEC in France are set to launch the first master’s in business administration program tailored specifically for the European market in September. The…
Bahrain Education Makeover Planned A complete overhaul is planned for Bahrain’s education system according to the Ministry of Education. The project will be evaluated and discussed at a national conference before being presented to the national cabinet for ratification. It is hoped the overhaul will…