Archive | Language Issues

Georgia: One History for All

Tags: , , , , ,

Posted on 10 December 2008 by Vicken Cheterian

Georgian students speaking different languages will soon all have the same, more inclusive textbooks.

Comments (1)

Romania: Teaching Diversity by the Book

Tags: , , , ,

Posted on 05 November 2008 by Sinziana Demian

A schoolbook becomes popular with a message that the majority is just one among many cultures living in Romania.

Comments (0)

Kyrgyzstan: Tongue-tied Schools

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Posted on 26 May 2008 by Hamid Toursunof

Russian still dominates higher education but is slowly disappearing from Kyrgyz schoolrooms.

Comments (2)

Uzbekistan: Do You Speak Russian?

Tags: , ,

Posted on 21 May 2008 by Marina Kozlova

Younger Uzbeks are losing touch with the former official language.

Comments (0)

Estonia: Twisted Tongues

Tags: , , , ,

Posted on 25 September 2007 by Joel Alas

Debates about whether the country’s Russian population should be forced to learn Estonian are raising questions about long-standing citizenship requirements and multiculturalism.

Comments (0)

Uzbekistan: Dead Letter

Tags: , , ,

Posted on 23 July 2007 by Marina Kozlova

In three years’ time, Uzbekistan is supposed to have switched from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. But some laws are made to be broken.

Comments (0)

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.