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  • Euro-Mediterranean virtual energy university endorsed

    EGYPT, 2016/01/12 Five North African nations – Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – along with 38 European and Mediterranean states stand to benefit from a new initiative to set up an ‘energy university’ that will provide free, specialised education for energy professionals via an online platform. Senior officials of the 43 member states of the Union for the Mediterranean, or UfM, endorsed the new university during a conference in Barcelona, Spain, that was held next a high-level UfM conference entitled “Towards a Common Development Schedule for the Mediterranean” on 26 November.

  • Private sector drives higher education development in Cyprus

    CYPRUS, 2015/12/03 Nicos Peristianis, founder and Council President of the University of Nicosia, one of the island’s initial non-national universities and pioneer of various firsts in the sector, to discuss the importance of education in Cyprus’ recovery and the role that the private sector has played in innovating and enhancing tertiary education since 2007. How did the 2013 crisis affect the education sector, in particular tertiary education?

  • The left-wing government aimed a new tax at the rich. It hit the poor instead

    GREECE, 2015/11/01 BEFORE Greece’s snap elections in September, the outgoing left-wing government laid out plans for a price-added tax of 23% on private education. The measure, dreamed up by the governing Syriza party as an alternative to raising tax on beef, featured in their manifesto as a blow against plutocracy. It looked like a double win that would instantly please creditors and demonstrate the government’s commitment to helping the underprivileged. Unsurprisingly, it did neither. Some of the country’s reasonably priced private schools were forced to close, leaving staff jobless. Elsewhere, fees rose. Those affected were not just rich families. Greece has additional than 300 full-time private schools, attended by about 6% of school-age children, a lot of of whom come from middle- and lower-gain families. With tuition fees as low as €2,500 ($2,750) a year, some operate in working-class areas and attract parents who are keen to give their children a leg up.

  • School enrollment, primary (% gross)

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 Gross enrolment ratio. Primary. Total is the total enrollment in primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of official primary education age. GER can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Catalog Sources World Development Indicators

  • Serbian adult literacy programme

    ROMANIA, 2013/03/06 In a Belgrade classroom, with walls covered with posters of the Serbian alphabet, 11 men and women are filling out test papers. A white-haired man in his 50s sits at a desk next to a young man, both peeping at each other's papers.  The two classmates are part 5,000 people in Serbia who are learning how to read and write through the education ministry's Druga Sansa (Second Luck) Project.

  • The Higher Technology School, in Portugal.

    ANGOLA, 2013/01/06  Belas University Monday, in Lisbon, signed with the Municipal Chamber of Barreiro, Setúbal district and “Coração Tropical Formação” company, a cooperation protocol, aiming at sending Angolan students to the Higher Technology School, in Portugal.

  • Over 8,000 schoolchildren need assistance

    CYPRUS, 2012/12/08 Over 8,000 school children in the Republic of Cyprus are in need of financial assistance, said the Education Ministry's permanent secretary Olympia Stylianou yesterday. Speaking after a meeting of the Home Education Committee, as Cyprus Mail reports today, Stylianou said the ministry has called a broad meeting of stakeholders to work out a system for providing
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