The state-owned university is participating in the EU-funded Erasmus Mundus programme on exchange and cooperation in higher education.

The University of Benghazi has set up a business incubator centre designed to support students and graduates who are seeking to start new ventures.

State-run university opens new facility in Bin Jawad, in Libya's Gulf of Sirte.

The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) is to open a new campus in the Libyan city of Misrata.

The 2012-3 academic year for primary and secondary education in Libya began on 30 September.

A new LD1m ($793,000) school has opened in the north-eastern city of Tobruk.

Libya's Ministry of Education said it had printed and distributed some 24 million new textbooks for basic and secondary schools for the 2012-3 year.

Various community and civil society leaders from the Jebel Nafusa area held a recent meeting to discuss introducing Amazigh teaching into local schools.

Libya's Ministry of Higher Education held a recent meeting to assess the current status of universities in the country.

Government figures report that just over one million pupils were enrolled in Years 1-9 of basic education in Libya during the 2012 academic year.

Germany's ambassador in Tripoli recently met the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research to discuss cooperation opportunities, including the possible opening of a Goethe Insititute.

Libya's interim Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Naim Mohamed Abdulrahman, met the US ambassador to Libya to discuss cooperation opportunities.

The British Council in Libya has signed an agreement to launch a twice-weekly English-language education show on local radio called 'Learn English Radio'.

Senior management from World Learning, a US-based educational NGO, visited Tripoli earlier in 2012 as part of a consortium seeking opportunities with Libya's Ministries of Education and Higher Education.

The GPC of Education and Scientific Research met a delegation from US-based Kennesaw State University to discuss education exchanges, Al Fajar Al Jadeed reported.