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Failure to secure rights over joint research data is preventing African researchers from getting ahead, a meeting has heard.

Leaders of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, which opened this week, have stated their global aims.

Nigerian universities are targeting closer relationships with industry to unlock research languishing in laboratories.

The UAE's US$15 billion plan to be a green energy centre includes a research centre which has just admitted its first students.

Five more science and technology centres have been launched in Chile, part of a funding programme to boost S&T innovation.

An evaluation of 71 Ecuadorian universities has yielded very low scores in research, teaching and career development.

A single research institution spanning the African continent could open its first node by February 2010, education ministers have agreed.

Detailed proposals for the country's first science and technology university are being considered by the Malawian government.

Connectivity issues have largely been solved in African universities — now they face the challenge of making better use of the resources.

Senegal is pushing ahead with plans to open a postgraduate maths institute as part of a continent-wide drive to see the discipline blossom.

African universities have been urged to lead the way in making sure agricultural research gets to the farmers that most need it.

A higher education expert has lambasted India's new higher education bill, which will allow foreign universities into the country.

Morocco is investing more in science with plans to make universities financially independent and upgrade the scientific infrastructure.

Several science initiatives in Pakistan, such as the National Commission on Biotechnology, have been hit by the global financial crisis.

After several delays, construction is underway on Botswana's specialist science university, with students expected to register in 2011.

Universities in Africa have backed a scheme to incorporate more community-driven and environmental initiatives into teaching and research.

Researchers in eight African countries will benefit from three US$800,000 grants from the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE).

Iraq has put science and technology at the centre of a proposed five-year, US$1 billion higher education plan.

Member states of the Arab League have approved a ten-year strategy aiming to boost higher education and scientific research.

India has increased its science spending by 16 per cent, including a massive rise in funds for manned space missions.