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How to finance your education

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Saudi students attend a class at the Technology College in Riyadh in this October 30, 2010 file photo. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sits on more than a fifth of the globe's oil reserves and thanks to high oil prices it has almost tripled its foreign assets to more than $400 billion since 2005. The region's thinkers had a profound influence on the evolving western science of the Middle Ages. But from kindergarten to university, its state education system has barely entered the modern age. Focused on religious

Arab universities chart new course: research and job training

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Gaber Gad Nassar (front row, C), president of Cairo University, poses with graduating Engineering students after an interview with Reuters in Cairo October 15, 2014. The government has tightened security at the university as it seeks to avert another year of unrest on university campuses, among the last bastions of protest and dissent in Egypt. Nassar denied the security measures were intended to restrict academic freedoms. Picture taken October 15. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION

Higher education in the Middle East

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Gaber Gad Nassar (front row, C), president of Cairo University, poses with graduating Engineering students after an interview with Reuters in Cairo October 15, 2014. The government has tightened security at the university as it seeks to avert another year of unrest on university campuses, among the last bastions of protest and dissent in Egypt. Nassar denied the security measures were intended to restrict academic freedoms. Picture taken October 15. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION

التعليم العالي في الشرق الأوسط

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