Category Archives: Information
Students Become Neighbors Time Zones Apart
WASHINGTON – Relatively few students in the U.S. have opportunities to study abroad, says Mohamed Abdel-Kader, executive director of the Stevens Initiative, a public-private partnership based at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C.Some estimates rig…
Growing Outcry in Ethiopia Over Abducted University Students
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopians are expressing anger and frustration over several university students, most of them female, who remain missing after their kidnapping two months ago.A growing social media campaign echoes the (hash)BringBackOurGirls activism in…
Quality Education, Key to Social Advancement, Equity and Territorial Justice: Head of Govt
Rabat – Quality education is likely to solve the problems facing society, as it is “the key to social advancement, equity, territorial justice and progress at the national level,” said on Thursday Head of Government, Saad Dine El Otmani.Speaking at the…
Inside Campus Fortresses, Hong Kong Students Prep for Battle
HONG KONG – Student protesters are barricading themselves at universities across Hong Kong, stockpiling makeshift weapons and turning campuses into what look like war zones. It marks a dangerous new phase in Hong Kong’s 5-month-old anti-government prot…
The UAE Ministry of Education Showcase Its World-Class Education at The Morocco Educational Fairs
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education (MoE) (www.MOE.gov.ae) is taking part in the 2019 fall edition of the Morocco Educational Fairs, between November 16 and 18, 2019 in Casablanca and Tangier. During the exhibition, the ministry will be pres…
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) Final Judiciary Forensic Seminar
In the framework of bilateral cooperation between the government of Algeria, and the United States Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), the fifth and final iteration of the ICITAP-sponsored J…
Global Fund Gives Kids in Crisis-Plagued Sahel Chance at Education
GENEVA – A global education fund is providing tens of thousands of Sahelian children in crisis with a quality education, bringing hope to boys and girls who have known nothing but violence and sorrow in their young lives. Education Cannot Wait, a fundi…
Alliance Seeks $7.4B to Immunize 300M Children
GENEVA – Gavi, the global vaccine alliance that targets developing countries, said Friday that it was appealing for $7.4 billion to immunize 300 million children in 2021-25. Gavi’s latest fundraising drive is its most ambitious to date. Officials said …
