Education

With high levels of government spending and steadily increasing private sector participation, Kuwait’s health care industry is poised for considerable expansion in the coming years. The Ministry of Health (MoH), which is constitutionally mandated to offer free health care to all Kuwaiti citizens, accounts for the great majority of medical provision...

As a key component of Vision 2030, the government’s long-term economic planning document, Kuwait’s education sector is poised for substantial expansion in the coming years. Indeed, improving the quality of the education on offer in schools and universities is widely considered to be a prerequisite to achieving the state’s overarching goals of...

Improving public health has been the overarching goal of health care development in Kuwait for over a century. The nation has had a considerable amount of success in this area. As of 2011, life expectancy in the country was nearly 78, up from the low 60s at the time of independence in 1961, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Similarly...

Long Africa’s leading research and development (R&D) centre, concerns have been raised that investment was stalling and South Africa’s research competitiveness slipping, so the government is expanding R&D capacity. According to a report published in March 2013 by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), a South...

The government has made it clear that education is a priority in South Africa, with more public resources going to the education system than any other sector. In the 2013 budget, it allocates some R232.5bn ($28bn), or 21.9% of the total R1.06trn ($121bn). Of education expenditure, R1bn ($121m) will go to teacher recruitment and...

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In the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2012-13”, the quality of business management schools in Colombia ranked highly, making it to 74th place out of 144 countries.