A Practical Guide to Bologna Tools and Instruments

By Nick Clark

The new bachelor’s and master’s ‘Bologna degrees’ started filtering into evaluators’ inboxes at World Education Services (WES) soon after the first graduating class – 2002/03 – began applying for a U.S. equivalency of their newly awarded degrees. As the European educational reform movement, known commonly as the Bologna Process, has gained pace, so those charged with evaluating the new degrees in the United States have started acquainting themselves with the reforms and their implications. [Continued]

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Mandela Fund to Support Pan-African Science and Technology Institute Donors and education experts have launched a foundation to promote science and technology in Sub-Saharan Africa through the creation of a multi-campus university in a bid to begin the process of stemming the flow of Africa’s best minds to more affluent shores. With seed funding of US $500 million, the Nelson Mandela Foundation for Knowledge Building and the Advancement of Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa is to establish public/private and academically autonomous scientific centers of excellence across the region. [Continued ... read full story in the Africa section]

Private Universities in Pakistan

By Robert Sedgwick

Pakistan currently suffers from large fiscal and trade deficits, the absence of a strong middle class and weak foreign investment. Economic growth is sluggish with 48 million Pakistanis (33 percent of the population) living below the poverty line. A mere 2.6 per cent of the population is enrolled in higher education, and adult literacy hovers around 43 percent. Yet despite these bleak statistics, the country has paradoxically witnessed a tremendous surge over the past decade or so in the number of colleges and universities. The vast majority of the new schools are private. [Continued]

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