JORDAN DEVELOPS COMMERCIAL UNIVERSITY SECTOR
July 1st, 2006
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Amman
JORDAN is undertaking a root and branch reform of its higher education sector to better match the needs of its economy and regulate the burgeoning private sector.
With no statistics on the number of students enrolled in specific subjects, the country's ministry of higher education is working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on a study to better coordinate the needs of the market and graduating students.
"We are seriously working on this, as everyone is doing IT, engineering and medicine. We have too many ...
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