Category: Bahrain
HE News Brief 25.5.10
by Abby Chau
From Bahrain’s educational overhaul to UK institutions going private, here are this week’s news stories:
- With the help of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), Bahrain is planning an overhaul of its education system, with plans to finalise the project by the end of 2011. This project will focus on infrastructure, quality of education, adult education, raising standards, internationalisation and forming a unified award system.
Full Story: Gulf Daily News
- For-profit higher education companies saw their shares rise when news broke that Deputy Undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Education Robert Shireman plans to step down in July. It is reported that Shireman is a major critic of for-profit higher education companies (see our 4.5.2010 news brief for more on this).
Full Story: Reuters
More: Wall Street Journal
- In line with the Bologna Process, Germany plans on investing two billion euros over the next ten years to improve university teaching quality. The money will go toward employing more staff and professors, as well as mentor and tutor programmes. In addition, a new academy has been set up to oversee the Quality Pact for Teaching, which was created to make sure that Bologna is successfully implemented.
Full Story: eGov monitor
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