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According to the 2018 Nature Index, Saudi Arabia leads the way in scientific research in the Arab Region with chemistry being the main driver of Saudi’s rise up. Read more>

New Africa’s Sustainable Development report calls for improved urban management to better sustain the growing populations and reduce the implications this growth will have on the environment. Read more>

Formal steps to tackle terrorism at higher education institutions have been announced by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the wake of a suicide bomb attack carried out by a jobless female university graduate last month. Read more>

The Nobel science prizes are done for another year and in 2018, just as in most of the past 117 years, there were few surprises for the Arab world. Read more>

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 13.5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output. In 2008, Africa produced 27,000 published papers – the same number as the Netherlands. Read more>

Five years after the government resolved to introduce a national university ranking, Uzbekistan’s first domestic higher education league table was announced in July 2018. Read more>

China is rising, the US is falling, and some developing nations in Africa are outperforming according to the 2018 edition of the Global Innovation Index. Read more>

Saudi Arabia needs to expand the number of available university seats in order to keep pace with a growing college-aged cohort and the demands of its domestic labour market. Read more>

Though rich, Gulf oil producers score poorly on key measures of innovation. Read more>

Wagdy Sawahel Twenty-two Middle East & North African countries representing Arab states and ten Southeast Asian nations have unveiled a higher education cooperation plan that includes networking among universities, facilitating student and academic mobility and enhancing quality of university education as well as developing tools and mechanisms for measuring the …