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FEATURE
Foreign Higher Education Activity in Francophone Africa
FROM THE ARCHIVES
The Future Missions and Roles of the African Universities (Winter 1994)
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Education in the Maghreb
• Algeria
• Morocco
• Tunisia
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Profiles of Higher Education in Selected Countries of French-Speaking Africa (Spring 1990)
      
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Education in the Maghreb
By Nick Clark
The three profiles offered
with this issue of World Education News & Reviews provide an overview of the education
systems of Algeria, Morocco
and Tunisia and a discussion of past and recent reforms.
[Continued]
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Profiles of Higher Education in Selected Countries of French-Speaking Africa (Spring 1990)
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Belarusian University Reopens in Vilnius
Two years
after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko closed the Minsk campus of the
European Humanities University
(see Sept/Oct 2004 issue of WENR),
the Lithuanian government has reopened the university in Vilnius in an attempt to help support the
institution’s estranged students. After conducting an assessment of the university’s
programs and facilities, Lithuanian education authorities announced in February that they have
approved the establishment and accreditation of EHU as a Lithuanian institution of higher learning,
giving it the right to legally operate in Vilnius as Lithuania’s 22nd university until conditions
provide for its return to Belarus.
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Foreign Higher Education Activity in Francophone Africa
By Lisa Jokivirta
To date, Africa has remained in large part
unaffected by transnational higher education. Evidence suggests that, until now, the vast majority
of foreign educational activity has been concentrated in emerging or middle- to high-income economies,
while the developing world has generally possessed insufficient capital or individual wealth to
attract or sustain this type of provision on a substantial scale. In the world of transnational
higher education, countries in Francophone Africa face a double challenge. In addition to the
problems common to most African countries (e.g. capacity gap, fiscal constraints), the dominance of
the English language presents its own difficulties.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
The Future
Missions and Roles of the African Universities (Winter 1994)
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