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Innovate Egypt empowers early-stage science and technology innovators to commercialize their inventions and create new ventures. The goal of Innovate Egypt is to provide innovators with the training, mentoring, and resources they need to bring their ideas out of the lab and into the market. Read more>

France and Tunisia have agreed to establish the first joint university in the Tunisian capital Tunis next year, aimed at attracting Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean students and enhancing the country’s higher education status and its potential for research collaborations. Read more>

The latest edition of the world’s most-consulted university rankings portfolio will shine the broadest light yet on the performance of the Middle East’s higher education institutions, ranking 145 departments across 8 Middle Eastern nations. Read more>

Many African universities are exploring the option of e-exams to cope with the assessment demands of rapidly growing student numbers, and rising incidents of grade tampering and cheating. Read more>

The platform will provide 5,000 free Arabic videos in general science, math, biology, chemistry and physics to students from kindergarten to grade 12 without internet access through four innovative offline solutions. Read more>

KABUL: The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) on Monday said it would soon open up the first ever online education system to help facilitate Afghan education lovers to pursue their higher education. The AfghanX Company with the motto of ‘Knowledge is Ability’ will start online learning operation soon. Read more>

Turkey and Saudi Arabia rank the highest in the Middle East for patent applications according to a report from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Ranking in 22 nd place, Turkey filed more than 11,000 patents in 2017, up from 4,200 in 2010, while Saudi Arabia ranked 29 th with …

Africa’s first institutionalised centre dedicated exclusively to studying all initiatives related to the Silk Road – the historical trade route connecting East and Southeast Asia with Africa, West Asia and Europe – will be established in Egypt to serve as a regional platform for Chinese and African studies. Read more>

A new study charts a “massive recent surge” in artificial intelligence-based inventions, with Chinese universities making a strong contribution to a field dominated by United States and Japanese companies. But universities in the Middle East and Africa are in danger of being left behind. Read more>

This handbook documents 63 innovations in the words of the innovators themselves who were present for the Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2018. Read more>