Archive for November, 2009
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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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Ukraine: Unfair Advantages
KYIV | Two girls cry with happiness on the steps of a nationally renowned university. Both have been offered free places at the university, but for very different reasons.
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Armenia: School Uniforms: In Good or Bad Taste?
YEREVAN | Gayane Grigoryan, a 27 year-old resident of Yerevan, wore her school uniform for only a couple of weeks at the start of the second grade. When Armenia declared […]
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Bulgaria: Under Repair
SOFIA | During this summer, repair works were intense at the Second English Language high school in Sofia, as in most Bulgarian schools during the summer holidays. However, replacing window […]
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