Bologna Country Updates: Italy and Austria

By Nick Clark

In an attempt to benchmark progress that has been made towards the goal of establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010, WENR is providing updates on the structural, legislative and institutional changes that have been implemented by each of the signatory countries in their efforts to comply with the reforms called for by the Bologna Declaration. [Continued]

REGIONAL NEWS

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Sierra Leone: Fourah Bay College Offers Hope for Future Relative calm has returned to Sierra Leone after the country’s decade-long civil war officially ended in 2002. During the rebel invasion of Freetown in 1999, the Fourah Bay College campus of the University of Sierra Leone was seized, and half of the buildings were razed before the rebels swept into the nation’s capital. As Freetown was about to fall, a force of Nigerian peacekeepers seized the campus and began shelling the city. Today, throughout Freetown there are reminders of the war. But amid the ashes, the continent’s oldest university remains a beacon of hope. [Continued ... Read Full Story in the Africa Section]

FEATURE

Institutions of Higher Education in South Africa after the Mergers

By Robert Sedgwick

Since 1994 South Africa has been overhauling its entire education system as part of a broader national reform movement aimed at overcoming the inequities and polarization caused by the now defunct apartheid regime. For more than 40 years the country's majority black population chafed under a system of racial separation that bolstered white supremacy and denied blacks the right to vote, access to free basic education and freedom of movement. [Continued]

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