Archive for October, 2014
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The young Roma women who are changing their communities
It isn’t because they don’t have their own televisions. Most of the families have large screens at home, but in this impoverished, isolated and marginalised Roma community, where there is no rubbish collection, no school, no street lights and no bus, the neighbours are not here for the TV, but for Magdalini.
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Georgia: grappling with teacher troubles
In 1960, the Georgian poet Ioseb Noneshvili lauded teachers as role models and pillars of society who were endowed with the “light of knowledge.”
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Economist: education system is impeding Lithuania’s innovativeness
The education system oriented at academic achievements prevents Lithuania from becoming an innovative country. It does not promote innovative thinking, entrepreneurship and is impeding such traits says Senior Economist at Swedbank Laura Galdikiene, cites LETA.
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Badass teachers and the future of American democracy
Education should be a transformative experience. Instead, it’s being converted into a commodity that can be quantified, bought and sold.
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Thailand’s military stopped university lecture on ‘authoritarianism’ and detained professors
Last week a group of students at the prestigious Thammasat University hosted a public lecture on “the collapse of authoritarian regimes in other countries”. While the discussion was presumably focused on other countries, the government seemed to decide the topic was too close to the current situation in Thailand and shut it down.
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Public sector strikes back in Serbia
Two of Serbia’s largest groups of public employees have launched strikes in the past week over the government’s austerity plans.
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Georgia: education gap has alarming economic ramifications
When Rusudan, a 47-year-old woman from Georgia’s western city of Zugdidi, decided to move her son from a public school to a private school seven years ago, it was not a light-hearted decision.
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Education reform in England
To get a handle on the extent of reforms introduced in England by Michael Gove, the former Minister of Education, we asked David Eddy-Spicer to share with IEN some of what he has observed while he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of London’s Institute of Education.
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