Engulfed in a tyrant's wake

Article Abstract:

Higher education in Iraq operates under conditions of extreme deprivation as a result of sanctions imposed on the country after the Gulf War. The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions in 1990 which froze trade and overseas assets. Students in Iraq have had access to virtually no new textbooks since that date, there are no modern computers, modems are banned and the United Nations will not allow the import of pencils. Rampant inflation has also reduced lecturers' salaries to the British equivalent of 0.5 pounds sterling per month.

Social aspects, Education, Higher, Higher education, Iraq

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Kabul campus countdown

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Kabul University in Afghanistan is set to reopen in Apr. 1996 after having been closed in Apr. 1992 due to fighting during the Russian occupation and the later civil war. The 16-year war left little of the university still standing, but buildings have now been repaired and the campus has been de-mined. The students are determined but face formidable challenges: no electricity, books or money, and the continuing threat of rocket attacks and fighting between the government and the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group.

Political aspects, Schools, Kabul, Afghanistan, Kabul University

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Hard stretched to make ends meet

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Marco Van Thiel is a Dutch student who is involved in a five year nursing course. He receives 425 Dutcher guilders each month and supplements this with a student loan which he will have to repay before 15 years of graduation, with an interest rate of 9.7%. He is often left without money for food at the end of the month and asks for help from his father. He has a travel card which allows him some free usage of public transportation.

Netherlands, Finance, Universities and colleges, Students

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