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Saudi universities to begin to allow women to enroll in political science courses
Saudi Ministry of Higher Education told colleges across the Kingdom on Saturday to enroll female students in their political science departments.
KIC-Innoenergy and UPC launch a master programme in renewable energy and entrepreneurship
MSc Renewable Energy – RenE aims to train students from around the globe, delivering the right type of engineering graduates needed to go forward in leadership, industrial practice, innovation and entrepreneurship in the renewable energy field, so that becoming an engine for innovation in the field of sustainable energy.
Report on Talloires Network Leaders Conference, Madrid June 2011
The report on the Talloires Network Leaders Conference held in Madrid in June 2011 was released this month.
World Bank establishes an Open Content repository
Covering a broad range of topics, the World Bank has brought together over 2,000 books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, with higher education one of the pillars covered in the ever-increasing number of publications available.
Call for the Rafael Cordera Campos Chair: “Youth and Social Networks”
The office of the Vice President of the Andean Region of the Association of Universities of Latin American and the Caribbean (UDUAL) has opened a call to affiliates to take part in the Rafael Cordera Campos Chair.
Early Bird registration for the 2012 OECD International Management in Higher Education Conference ends May first
The conference, whose theme is ‘Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education’ will be held in Paris from the 17-19 of September.
UNESCO publishes guidelines for the promotion and development of open access
UNESCO has issued this publication to demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place.
Call for chapters for a new publication from PASCAL
Chapters are for University Engagement and Environmental Sustainability: Grounding Knowledge. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2012.
Improving the quality of higher education in Senegal
The Ministry of Higher Education in Senegal and UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar launched a project to improve the quality of higher education in Senegal.
ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development
Deadline for applications is the 15th May of 2012.
Inaugural European Platform of Universities Engaged in Energy Research, Education and Training (EPUE) - Developing the Platform: from Concept to Implementation
This inaugural event brought together EUA member universities that have expressed a strong interest in joining the European Platform and have completed a questionnaire on their research and education capacities in the field of energy.
QS releases list of world’s “best student cities”
QS has recently released its list of the top 50 cities in the world for student life, taking into account such variables as affordability, city size and quality of life.
Erasmus student exchange program to expand
The European Commission has announced that the number of Erasmus study abroad exchanges will increase nearly twofold, seeing nearly five million students study abroad between 2014 and 2020.
UNESCO Chair in Biosciences Ethics Established at the University of Khartoum, Sudan
The establishment of the UNESCO Chair could strengthen teaching and research programs related to the activities of the new center in the country’s capital.
India's National Knowledge Network expanding
With a budget of roughly US $1.23 billion, the network is slowly but surely expanding to connect universities across the vast country, and giving access to untapped sources of knowledge, and being lauded ad nothing short of a "technical revolution".
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