An Unlikely Partnership Leads to a Science and Technology University in the Middle East

Last year in June, the JPN HEO blog reported on the start up of an Egypt-Japan partnership for a University of Science and Technology.

Last fall it had an intake of 100.

This week the US-based and US-focused Chronicle of HE ran a piece on E-JUST in its international section:

http://chronicle.com/article/Unlikely-Partnership-Leads-to/126052/

brief excerpt follows link:

January 25, 2011
An Unlikely Partnership Leads to a Science and Technology University in the Middle East

By Ursula Lindsey

New Borg El Arab, Egypt

The Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology is still little more than a few buildings on the edge of a quiet industrial town in the Egyptian desert. Yet when about 100 graduate students started courses here this past fall, it was the beginning of an unprecedented partnership between Egypt and Japan.