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Algeria
Partners situated in Algeria
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Algeria in a nutshell
(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria)
Algeria (Formal Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’ir; Berber: Dzayer), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.
It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the southwest, Morocco in the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. I
Its size is almost 2,400,000 km2 with an estimated population near to 35,000,000.
The capital of Algeria is Algiers.
About a quarter of the population of the country lives off less than US$ 2 a day.
Algeria is a member of the United Nations, African Union, OPEC and the Arab League. It also contributed towards the creation of the Maghreb Union.
Algeria is considered by Berbers to be a part of the Berber World.
Algeria education policy
Algeria education system
Higher education
Universities in Algeria
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Polytechnics in Algeria
Higher education reform
The Bologna Process
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Administration and finance
Quality assurance
Country's HEIs in the information society
Towards the information society
Information society strategy
Virtual Campuses in HE
Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives
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Interesting Programmes
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Lessons learnt
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