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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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Romania: Diploma Factory
BUCHAREST | When Spiru Haret University, Romania’s largest private higher education institute, requested the certification of an unprecedented number of diplomas, it set off alarm bells in the ministry of […]
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Armenia: Reluctant Reformers
YEREVAN | Maritsa Abajyan, 41, a second-grade teacher in Yerevan’s 121 school, was supposed to receive a set of colorful children’s furniture this year for her classroom – just one […]
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Teaching One History, Living Another
As we look at how life has changed – or stayed the same – over the past 20 years, TOL correspondents in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and […]
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Moldova: No Retirement in Sight
VOLOVITA, Moldova | Nadejda Cotaga, the principal of a gymnasium in the northern village of Volovita, spent the last days of the summer desperately trying to recruit recent pedagogy graduates […]
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Kyrgyzstan: A Corrupted Future
OSH | “A friend of mine has been working in Russia for the last two years,” says Rustam Saidov, a third-year student from a university based in Osh. “Every six […]
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Russia: Student Government with a Capital G
At only twenty, Dmitri Miroshnikov, a student of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, has a hands-on role in the Moscow city administration, and has numerous official meetings and visits […]
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Kosovo: Worth the Paper It’s Printed On?
PRISTINA | Last month, from one day to the next, thousands of students in Kosovo learned that they would not be receiving the university degree that they thought they had […]
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