Ghana UMES Inks 3 Agreements Three institutions —Golden Beach Hotels, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology — have signed separate memorandums of understanding for linkage agreements with the University of Maryland Eastern Shores (UMES). The UMES/UCC agreement…
Regional 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…
Australia Increased Scrutiny of Offshore Programs Causing Concern As some overseas authorities move to tighten requirements for foreign providers, the Australian government is facing increasing pressure to guarantee the quality of courses offered by Australian institutions overseas. But universities, some of which already have been…
Regional Erasmus Mundus Hoped to Rival Fullbright The European Commission (EC) is considering a huge expansion of its Erasmus Mundus student-exchange program in a bid to make the 230 million euro (US$276.6 million) initiative competitive with the Fulbright program by the end of its first…
Iraq Little Progress Reported in Rebuilding of Academic Infrastructure The senior U.S. official responsible for the distribution of education-related grants and the rebuilding of Iraq’s system of higher education said in May the United States has done little to repair damaged institutions, and has provided…