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Armenia: School for Scandal

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Posted on 01 December 2009 by Onnik Krikorian

Alleged abuse at an Armenian school for the disabled led to a criminal probe – of the young activist who blew the whistle.

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Romania: Diploma Factory

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Claudia Ciobanu

Education officials question the quality of education in Romania’s largest private university, jeopardizing the diplomas of more than 100,000 students and recent graduates.

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Ukraine: Unfair Advantages

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Alexander Belyakov

Ukraine’s new system of externally evaluated admissions exams has led to a surge in ‘privileged applicants’ claiming disadvantaged status in the admissions process.

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Georgia: No Room For Sex Education

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Tamar Kikacheishvili

Sex education remains outside the curriculum in Georgian schools.

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Improving Coverage of Education Issues 2009

Posted on 09 November 2009 by Chalkboard

Articles written by this year’s trainees of the Improving Coverage of Education distance course and workshop in Prague.

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Macedonia: Ongoing Saga

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Mirkica Popovik

Macedonian university students in nearby Greece say they confront a Kafkaesque bureaucracy when trying to obtain legal residence there.

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Slovakia: The Kids of Lunik IX

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Posted on 02 July 2009 by Andy Markowitz

Slideshow: A documentary project shines a light on a successful preschool in Central Europe’s biggest Roma ghetto.

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Russia: Winds of Change from the North

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Posted on 01 June 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

A new research institute aims to preserve national cultures and develop education resources for the small-numbered indigenous peoples of the North.

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Kyrgyzstan: Cold Classrooms

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Posted on 24 April 2009 by Hamid Toursunof

With language barriers and little investment, the only school serving Kyrgyzstan’s Lyuli reflects the tiny community’s limited opportunities.

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Romania: A Doctor in the Family

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Posted on 30 March 2009 by Sinziana Demian

A scholarship program gives ambitious Romani students a chance to join the healing profession.

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Call for Papers

As part of the Advancing Educational Inclusion and Quality in South East Europe Initiative the Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI) announces a competition open to individuals on the elaboration of research papers using the statistical data collected as part of the 2009 Cross-National Survey of Parents in South East Europe (SEE) countries. Proposals are invited primarily from graduate students and early career researchers.

Application deadline: February 20th 2010.