Education in Libya

By Nick Clark

Libya’s population of approximately 5.5 million includes 1.7 million students, over 270,000 of whom study at the tertiary level. In academic year 1975/76 the number of university students was estimated to be 13,418. Today, this number has increased to more than 200,000, with an extra 70,000 enrolled in the higher technical and vocational sector. The rapid increase in the number of students in the higher education sector has been mirrored by an increase in the number of institutions of higher education. Since 1975 the number of universities has grown from two to nine and after their introduction in 1980, the number of higher technical and vocational institutes currently stands at 84.

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REGIONAL NEWS

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AMERICAS: Central American Accreditation Agency Begins Work In the making for more than three years, the Consejo Centroamericano de Acreditación de la Educación Superior (Central American Accreditation Council (CCA) recently began operations to raise the level of higher education to internationally competitive standards through the implementation of a region-wide accreditation program. Officials say the accreditation system will create minimum qualification standards to facilitate the exchange of ideas, students and lecturers to the benefit of the region’s approximately 700,000 university students. [Continued ... Read Full Story in the Americas Section]

FEATURE

Foreign Higher Education Activity in China

By Richard Garrett

China is perhaps the world’s most complex, overhyped, and underanalyzed market for transnational higher education. The country’s size combined with China’s transition from a command to a pseudomarket economy and potential as a superpower, has prompted many higher education institutions in the developed world to explore the possibilities for market entry.

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