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	INHEA: Burkina Faso Higher Education Profile
		The board of directors is comprised of the representatives of the ministry of secondary, higher, and scientific research education; the ministry of finance; the ministry of public service; the ministry of health; the ministry of employment; a representative of the Chamber of Commerce; representatives of the administrative staff; the trade union movement; teachers; and students.
		The assembly of the university, the Council of the Foundation and the Life of the University (CFVU), is responsible for deciding university policy.
		The state-owned universities have a budget mainly based on subsidies from the state, but public funds are insufficient to cover all of their operating expenses.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/profiles/Burkina_Faso.htm (1471 words)

	Ouagadougou
		Ouagadougou (or Wagadugu, population 960,116 (2000)) is the capital of Burkina Faso.
		The University of Ouagadougou[?], founded in 1974 (or 1969), was the country's first institution of higher education.
		Ouagadougou was a state founded in the 11th century, the central settlement was called Kombemtinga[?], it became capital of the Mossi[?] empire in 1441.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ou/Ouagadougou.html (220 words)

	Ouagadougou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ouagadougou (IPA: [wɑgədugu]} is the capital of Burkina Faso.
		Ouagadougou is served by an international airport, rail links to Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire and to Kaya in the north of Burkina, and a highway to Niamey, Niger.
		Ouagadougou's citizens also travel in readily available green cabs, which will take their passengers anywhere in town for 200 to 400 CFA but price is higher at night after 22:00 and can then reach 1000CFA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ouagadougou (1426 words)

	Unversities and NARs - Country Studies
		The University of Ouagadougou as well as CNRST are both under the umbrella of the Ministry of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESSRS).
		The steering committee is composed of leaders of CNRST, the Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA), the University of Ouagadougou, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, and a farmers' organization.
		Twenty-three of the Nigerian universities have a faculty of agriculture and five have a faculty of veterinary medicine.Three are agricultural universities.
	www.isnar.cgiar.org /activities/university_project/country.htm (4215 words)

	University of Ouagadougou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But in 1995 a second campus for professional education known as University Polytechnique of Bobo (UPB) was opened in the city of Bobo Dioulasso and a third campus for teacher training in Koudougou in 1996.
		The goal of the UO is to open new faculties in order to increase the number of students, to intensify the development of new information and communication technologies, to improve the university management, to improve the internal and external efficiency by diversification of the areas in education and to finally introduce a professional education.
		As previously mentioned, the University of Ouagadougou (2005A) consists of 7 Training and Research Units (UFR), and one institute: UFR Languages, Arts and Communications; UFR Human sciences; UFR Legal and Politic Sciences; UFR Economic Sciences and Management; UFR Applied Sciences; UFR Health Sciences; UFR Life and Hearth Sciences and Burkinabe Institute of Arts and Crafts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Ouagadougou (948 words)

	News
		Upon the Leader's arrival at Ouagadougou University, he was received by President Blaise Compaore, Minister of Higher Education and members of the teaching staff at the Ouagadougou University.
		The Leader of the Revolution greeted the large number of student who crowded to salute him whom were carried his portraits, green flags and placards expressing their delight for the presence of the Leader among them, welcoming his arrival and chanting slogans for his long life and that of the great al-Fateh Revolution.
		Afterwards, the President of the University and one member of the teaching Staff at Ouagadougou University presented the Leader with the uniform of the university and awarded him the honorary doctorate.
	en.ljbc.net /online/news_details.php?id=891 (397 words)

	Universities project-Action Plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Listed below are the recommendations of the action plan for strengthening the research performance of the University of Ouagadougou and the linkages between the university and the other components of the NARS of Burkina Faso.
		Two groups of recommendations were defined: (1) those that strengthen the internal research performance of the university and (2) those that strengthen the external relationships of the university with the other components of the NARS.
		Based on influencing factors identified in the analytical report on "Strengthening the Role of Universities in the National Agricultural Research System of Uganda", specific recommendations were formulated and intensively discussed and analyzed during the workshop in Uganda from 2 to 4 April 1997.
	www.isnar.cgiar.org /activities/university_project/Actionpl.htm (1920 words)

	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Pictures
		Ouagadougou, also Wagadugu, city in central Burkina Faso, capital of the country and of its Kadiogo Province.
		The city is the site of the University of Ouagadougou (1969), several research institutes, a sports stadium, and the palace of a Mossi chief.
		In 1896 the city was captured by the French, and it served as the capital of France's Upper Volta protectorate from 1919 to 1932 and from 1947 to 1960, when the country (now Burkina Faso) became independent.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Burkina_Faso/Ouagadougou_Wagadugu_city_state_capital.html (202 words)

	RFI Musique - - Special Report - The "African Music University" in Ouagadougou
		The trio are well-known in Ouagadougou, the “African Music University” having already attracted a big turn-out when they organised two training sessions in Reemdoogo’s Music Garden in 2005.
		And not a moment of the ten-day “University sessions” in Ouagadougou was wasted.
		After ten days’ intensive training at Lema’s “African Music University”, it is hoped Ernest will not only have mastered the techniques, but that he will be reconciled with the traditional music of his homeland as well.
	www.rfimusique.com /musiqueen/articles/084/article_txt_7825.asp (996 words)

	afrol News - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
		The Burkinabe university puts a special emphasis on environmental studies and holds that wetland ecology is of vital interest for the nation and the entire water-scarce Sahel region.
		Professor Prosper Zombré, coordinator of the university's superior courses, emphasises that "in the Sahelian countries of West Africa, wetlands are of great importance, in particular regarding pastoral and agro-forestry production and in safeguarding biodiversity." It was therefore necessary to continue educating capable local scientists.
		After organising superior training in wetland conservation successfully for one year, the University of Ouagadougou holds that it is fit to provide regular higher education in the field.
	www.afrol.com /articles/15873 (597 words)

	Building Digital Technical Capacity at Nigerian Universities
		As well, the University of Iowa has active exchanges with the University of Ouagadougou, University of Ghana in Legon, University of Dar Es Salaam, and the University of Natal, South Africa.
		An unusual aspect of this course is that it is taught simultaneously at the University of Jos in central Nigeria.
		This is a rare opportunity for the University of Iowa to lead in the development of creative uses of digital communication technologies and to demonstrate to other academic institutions how such communication with the developing world can broaden their teaching and research opportunities.
	www.widernet.org /UILinkages/whyimportant.htm (1550 words)

	INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOOD-BASED APPROACHES FOR HEALTHIER NUTRITION IN WEST AFRICA OPENS IN OUAGADOUGOU, 23 NOVEMBER
		The workshop is sponsored by the University of Wageningen (Netherlands), the University of Ouagadougou, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD-France) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
		West African countries, with a combined population of 226 million people, face major challenges related to nutrition. Nearly 35 per cent of children under five years of age are stunted, a sign of a chronically poor diet, while about 5 to 15 per cent of young children are wasted, a sign of acute hunger.
		The Ouagadougou workshop participants will assess "food-based strategies" which mobilize the agriculture, food technology and education/communication sectors to promote the production, availability, access to, and consumption of nutritious foods. They will analyse current knowledge and identify future needs to promote food-based strategies.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/afr767.doc.htm (407 words)

	Burkina in Depth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The central plateau is the most populated region: the Kadiogo Province, in which the capital city Ouagadougou is located, with 156 inhabitants per mile² is the best example of this.
		Born on February 3, 1951 in Ouagadougou, Blaise Compaoré received his primary education at Guiloungou, his secondary school diploma in 1972 in Ouagadougou, and graduated from the Military Academy of Cameroon in 1974.
		Burkina Faso has three institutions of higher learning with a total enrollment of 10,000 students: the University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, the Bobo-Dioulasso Polytechnic University, opened in 1995-1996, and the Koudougou École Normale Supérieure, founded in 1997.
	burkinaembassy-usa.org /indepth.html (2339 words)

	PVO/University Center
		University members comprise land grant and non-land grant institutions that collectively possess extensive international and domestic development experience, substantial resources, considerable geographical and cultural experience and knowledge, strong research and institutional strengthening capabilities, and linkages with universities and governmental institutions in developing countries.
		The Board is comprised of representatives of PVOs and universities, usually chief executive officers, presidents and chancellors, and directors of international programs with many years of experience in the planning and management of development activities.
		Virginia State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan State University, Texas A and M University, Multi-Services International, Land of Lakes, Inc., and the Center for PVO/University Collaboration in Development.
	www.wcu.edu /UnivPVO (6075 words)

	kaisernetwork.org
		The University of Montreal on Tuesday announced that it has received a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund reproductive health initiatives in French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa's
		The 10-year program, which will be run jointly with the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, will finance a new master's degree program in public health with an emphasis on reproductive and child health.
		According to a University of Montreal press release, population and health research and service programs in sub-Saharan Africa "are hindered by a scarcity of well-trained health professionals," the
	kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=21412&dr_cat=2 (187 words)

	Africana Studies at Bowling Green State University - Links - The Study of African People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For both programs, students attend morning classes taught by Burkinabe professors of the University of Ouagadougou and go on excursions most afternoons and weekends.
		In cooperation with Benin's National University, this seminar provides studies in Beninese cultural history and creative arts.
		Undergraduate and graduate students across all disciplines, as well as interested individuals from the general public, are invited to participate.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/africana/Studyabroad.htm (482 words)

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		U.S. In celebration of International Education Week 2002, Ouagadougou organized Open Doors on Thursday, November 21, from 10:00am to 12:00pm and from 1:30 to 5:30pm, in the Multi-purpose Room of the Public Affairs Section and a Forum on Education in the same evening from 6:30 to 9:30pm in the garden of PAS.
		Thirty-two people, mostly students from the University of Ouagadougou and a few parents and educators came to visit the display of educational materials at the Open Doors.
		The three guest speakers of the Forum on Education were directors of faculties from the University of Ouagadougou who were sent on International Visitors Program last January to visit American universities and gather some first-hand experience and facts they could use back home.
	exchanges.state.gov /iew2002/events/africa/reports/burkinafaso.htm (404 words)

	CNN.com - Thousands protest over university closing in Burkina Faso - November 21, 2000
		OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (Reuters) -- Several thousand people protested in Burkina Faso's capital on Tuesday against the closure of the main university and scrapping of the 1999-2000 year, witnesses said.
		Opposition groups, teachers' unions and student associations took to the streets after rejecting the government's planned reorganization of the university in Ouagadougou.
		The university was shut down in early October after months of student protests about grants prevented the completion of the academic year which the government then scrapped.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/11/21/burkina.university.protest.reut (319 words)

	Council Projects \| The Ouagadougou Urban Health and Poverty Initiative
		This project was undertaken in collaboration with the Unité d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Démographie (UERD) based at the University of Ouagadougou.
		A pilot urban demographic surveillance system was launched in Ouagadougou in 2001—the first such system in West Africa—in which health indicators were gathered regularly from residents of a slum and a comparison nonslum settlement.
		In collaboration with the University of South Maine, researchers tested software developed to monitor the household registration system in rural Navrongo, Ghana, in the urban environment of Ouagadougou.
	www.popcouncil.org /projects/SS_BurkinaUrbanHealthPov.html (233 words)

	Nutrition Journal \| Full text \| Nutrition rehabilitation of undernourished children utilizing Spiruline and Misola
		The centre was created in 1974 by the St Camille religious order and comprises a maternity centre, a health centre, an analysis laboratory for biological and biochemical examination, a centre for neonatal pathology, a greenhouse for growing the Spiruline (Figure 1) and a Nutrition Education and Rehabilitation Centre (CREN).
		The values of the composition of the Spiruline from the CMSC of Ouagadougou are within the interval of values of the international firm Green Flamant [11] and its physicochemical elements do not change with time (p > 0.270).
		The results of this study prompted us to continue the culture of Spiruline in the CMSC of Ouagadougou in order to utilize the biochemical composition and the beneficial action of this cyanobacterium, which may be considered an alimentary integrator for undernourished children.
	www.nutritionj.com /content/5/1/3 (3646 words)

	US.FULBRIGHTONLINE.ORG \|\| Program Resources - Sub-Saharan Africa - Burkina Faso
		Affiliation To arrange affiliation with the University of Ouagadougou, applicants should contact direct: Le Vice-President, charge de la recherche et de la cooperation internationale, Université de Ouagadougou, 03 BP 7201, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso; tel: (226) 30 70 64/65; fax: (226) 30 72 42.
		It is suggested that copies of all these documents be sent to the Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy-Ouagadougou, Department of State, Washington DC 20521-2440.
		Housing University accommodations will be offered to candidates who either teach at the University of Ouagadougou or who come from American universities that have exchange programs with the university; those without such affiliations will have to secure their own housing.
	us.fulbrightonline.org /program_country.html?id=18 (239 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Guillaume Sessouma who, at the time he was kidnapped/arrested, was a lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou and who has not been seen since 1989.
		Clement Oumarou Ouedraogo, a University Professor and erstwhile representative of Burkina Faso at UNESCO, gunned down in the middle of a street in Ouagadougou on 9
		December 1991, two farmers killed in 1996 at 120 kilometres from Ouagadougou during a so-called police routine check, as well as the 1994/95 assassinations of people in the locality of Kaya (Nahouri).
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/africa/comcases/204-97.html (3375 words)

	MA Program
		More than thirty internationally renowned professors who are on the faculty of leading universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, New York University in USA, Laval University and University of Montreal in Canada, University of Toulouse and DIAL-Paris in France.
		There are also professors from West African Universities such as University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin), University of Lome (Togo) and University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
		Applicants should consider applying for scholarships through University Agency of la Francophonie and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), or the European Union.
	www.ireep.org /ma.htm (329 words)

	Home
		The medicines included anti-bacterial drugs to treat infections, anthelminthics to treat intestinal worm infections, analgesics, anti-fungal and other medicines and were donated and assembled by the Islamic Relief USA while the US Department of Defense financed their shipment...
		Library hosted approximately 80 invited guests, including journalists, university students, government officials and NGO representatives, to participate in a book debate.
		Professor Serge Théophile Balima, a former journalist currently teaching at the University of Ouagadougou’s Department of Arts and Communication, led the spirited discussion...
	ouagadougou.usembassy.gov (472 words)

	OceanDocs: Item 1834/663
		It is aimed at identifying the eventual pollution hot points and raising the populations and decision makers’ awareness on these issue.
		Ouagadougou has been selected as a project site during the experimental phase whose activities entrusted to the Hydrogeology laboratory of the University of Ouagadougou were launched in January 2000.
		The Authorities of the University of Ouagadougou thought it necessary to have the collaboration and cooperation of the population to achieve this project which involves the health of the residents of the City.
	iodeweb1.vliz.be /odin/handle/1834/663 (213 words)

	Lectures
		courses that are taught in English language at the University of Hohenheim.
		Comprehensive descriptions of the modules are available in the "Lehrkartei" of the University of Hohenheim, which is located on the pages of the University.
		A green button marks documents that are available from the Internet, a blue button those who may be accessed only via the Intranet and a red button for documents that may be acquired as a hard copy on request to my department.
	www.uni-hohenheim.de /~hpwolff/lectures.htm (693 words)

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