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Armenia: Out With the Old
YEREVAN, Armenia | Several women sit in a lecture room in Yerevan State University’s biology department. In angry voices loud enough to be heard down the corridor, they recount their […]
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Bulgaria: Fixing a (Black) Hole
SOFIA, Bulgaria | Asen Tzonev got his first taste of Bulgarian higher education in March when he attended a lecture as part of an Internet technology course at St. Kliment […]
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Southeastern Europe: Losing Human Capital
One myth that all societies in the Western Balkans have shared since the heyday of communism is the belief in the superior quality of education in the region. We may […]
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Hungary: A Testing Time
BUDAPEST, Hungary | There’s a new joke going around Hungary: “Should I hand out the exam paper,” the teacher asks the students before the big test, “or does everyone already […]
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Hungary: Graveside Manner
BUDAPEST, Hungary | It is the dead of night. A couple of young people hand money to a man, their faces digitally blurred. One props a huge medical textbook on […]
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Kosovo: Far From Pristine
PRISTINA, Kosovo | Petrit Hysaj is angry, angry because he says that the past week has been a complete waste of his time. A third-year political science student at Pristina […]
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Russia: Gagarin Had Free Education
ULYANOVSK, Russia | When Russia’s pensioners took to the streets early this year in protest at plans to reforms social benefits, observers predicted this would be just one of a […]
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Croatia: Learning Curves
ZAGREB, Croatia | The Croatian education system is in the midst of the most important reform process since the country’s independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. But while the Science, Education, […]
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Kyrgyzstan: Seeds for a Poor Harvest
In the Soviet era, a student from Central Asia who wanted to study international law would have had to compete with thousands if not tens of thousands of other students […]
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Albania: In the Bleak Midwinter
TIRANA, Albania | On the third floor of a dirty, marble-faced building that hosts two hostile educational trade unions, the newspaper of the ruling Socialist Party, and a bingo hall, […]
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