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“What can a woman do?” Gender norms in a Nigerian university
Are universities necessarily transformative spaces for women students? Research at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, raises critical questions around how conservative gender norms are replicated by young students, in particular in the burgeoning culture of religious student organisations.
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As political pressure from Beijing mounts, Hong Kong students demand democracy with class boycott
Student activist groups in Hong Kong have begun to boycott their classes for at least one week to demand that Beijing allow the city to hold a genuine democratic election in 2017 for its next chief executive.
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School-less in Kyiv
Years of sprawl, along with developers’ empty pledges to build private schools, are creating a crisis in the city’s suburbs. Second in an occasional series.
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The school day: Singapore
With school starting again here in the United States, I’ve been thinking back to my children’s experiences at the end of the last school year in Finland that we chronicled last June. To get another perspective on what school is like in another country, I asked our colleague here at IEN, Paul Chua, to talk with me a bit about his son’s experiences in 2nd grade in Singapore.
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Postgraduates – public good or job qualification?
An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe.
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‘Traditional’ academics are endangered species
Profound changes have transformed the role of the ‘traditional’ academic in Australian universities, so much so that this once typical academic might soon be numbered among the nation’s endangered species.
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Azerbaijan: kids start school with lengthy family-motorcades, cops complain
What parent would not want to make their child’s first day of school memorable?
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Regional Conference of Educators „Learning Through Inquiry“
“I explore, discover, wonder, question… the world around me” How to organize scientific research with children? How to take teaching process out of the classrooms – in the forest, city […]
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Student activism is being sabotaged and this is why it matters
Students have been at the forefront of social and political change throughout modern history. From supporting the anti-apartheid struggle, to standing against racism and against the Vietnam War, student participation has become more crucial than ever for any progressive movement.
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In Georgia, outcry over desecration of Muslim school
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has condemned the nailing of a pig’s head to the door of a planned Islamic school.
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