Tunisia's higher education minister Lazhar Bououni has met with Giacomo Durazzo of the EU commission to discuss Tunisia's modernisation programme in higher education.
The talks centred on achievements of the sector to date, including independent evaluations of the quality of the teaching in universities and the system's ability to absorb a higher number of students.
In 2005-06, 16 new institutions for higher education in Tunisia opened their doors to students, so that Tunisian young people now have a choice of 178 institutions to attend, of which 13 are universities.
The EU has been involved in funding and promoting higher education reform as well as a plethora of other social and political reforms in Tunisia since 2004, under the auspices of the European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plan.
When German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited in mid-November, he pledged that Germany's presidency of the EU from January 2007 would see a renewed commitment to modernisation of Tunisia's educational system.
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