Archive for 2009
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Serbia: On Edge
BELGRADE, Serbia | New exit exams for elementary school students, the introduction of Romani teaching assistants, an equal starting point for all children – all were big changes brought about […]
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Georgia: Whose Facts?
NINOTSMINDA, Georgia | For the second year in a row, teachers in an Armenian school in Ninotsminda, a town just inside the Georgian border, have faced the school year with […]
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Armenia: School for Scandal
YEREVAN | In what is still a conservative and hidebound country, Mariam Sukhudyan hardly comes across as typical. The smell of incense wafts across her family’s modest apartment in the […]
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Azerbaijan: Everybody Gets a Piece
Baku | Azerbaijani education officials certainly had cause to celebrate this summer. After nearly 15 years of stalled efforts and heated debates, parliament passed a long-awaited new law on education, […]
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Albania: A Deep Hole From Which to Emerge
Tirana | For four professors at the University of Tirana, 28 June was their own graduation day – the day they won seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, at least […]
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Macedonia: Ongoing Saga
SKOPJE | When you are not a member, the European Union (EU) seems like a very exclusive club. Especially when you originate from a non-EU country and you decide to […]
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Improving Coverage of Education Issues 2009
Eight journalists from Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania attended a Transitions’ workshop in Prague 31 August – 5 September on covering education issues – follow-up training for the […]
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Georgia: Pilot Program
Tbilisi’s public school No. 43 is one of 100 schools implementing a pilot version of the National Curriculum Program, a key element of the Ministry of Education and Science’s reform […]
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Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland
JAVAKHETY | Teachers in Armenian school No. 1 in Ninotsminda spent the last weeks of the summer trying to figure out how many textbooks to order from the Georgian education […]
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Georgia: No Room For Sex Education
TBILISI | Sixteen year-old Andro Chitadze is a high school student at public school No. 61 in Tblisi. Like his classmates, Chitadze gets his information about sex everywhere except in […]
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