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In Lithuania, Too Many Teachers Chasing Too Few Pupils
VILNIUS | At 75, Algimantas Adomenas is still spry, agile, and exuberant. He has another reason to feel satisfied with his life: he still works, in a job he loves.
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Private Tutoring: Rising in the Shadows
While tight school budgets and teacher union complaints make the newspaper headlines in many European countries, it may be less visible that each year families across the EU spend billions […]
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Speaking Their Language
PODGORICA | Montenegro’s newest effort to keep Roma children in school is happening far from the classroom – and often involves neither student nor teacher.
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Tongue Twisting Reforms
KVEMO KARTLI REGION, Georgia | When her second child began school in September, Jamila Omarova felt a mixture of happiness, pride, and anxiety. It was a struggle to convince her family […]
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Equal Education in South Africa secures a victory in its campaign for school infrastructure
Equal Education (EE) an organization advocating for quality and equality in the South African education system, represented by the Legal Resources Centre, secured a crucial victory in the campaign for minimum […]
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Drama Schools
Three days, maybe a week, possibly even longer – that’s how long Slovak teachers intend to strike for higher wages. Starting yesterday, most parents of school-age children in Slovakia have had […]
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All children from Makiš Roma settlement regularly attend school!
A joint project of the Roma Education Fund, the Belgrade Education Department, and Little Prince Children’s Center continues this year through activities aimed at providing learning support, preparing children for […]
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When Does Free Education Have to be Paid for?
Kazan resident Yekaterina Matveyeva was dreading the first parents’ meeting of the new school year. Her two children – born just a year apart – are pupils in Years 3 […]
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At what age: Early marriage and the right to education
The Right to Education Project (RTE) launched a new advocacy factsheet, At what Age?…Early marriage and the right to education, on the International Day of the Girl. This new factsheet is based […]
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Macedonian Schools Face the Shock of the New
SKOPJE | In the past five years Macedonian classrooms have seen many changes. An additional year of mandatory education; “interactive” teaching in place of the rote learning of the past; […]
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