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What the FSB is Doing in Russian Universities
In Soviet times, the KGB kept a close watch on intellectuals – they might turn out to be dissidents. Today, the FSB still skulks on university corridors…
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Norway’s shame: educational discrimination against Iranian students
Iranian students are being systematically discriminated against by the Norwegian government. This is a closed minded approach that goes against long term European interests.
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Honors for an Afghani Migrant II – Education challenges for refugees in Greece
Last year in August we reported on Chalkboard with the article “Honors for an Afghani Migrant – An Afghani asylum seeker excels in Greek national University entry exams”[1], when Thessaloniki Mayor presented Vahit Fasil with an award from the city, honoring refugees during 2013 World Refugee Day.
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Loans, university, and Britain’s debt-laden teenagers
Current funding of higher education in Britain places an unfair burden on the young.
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Tirana closes colleges as report highlights alleged degree fraud
Albanian authorities are shutting down 18 private universities after an inspection found widespread awarding of dubious diplomas, according to Balkan Insight.
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Students in India have developed a “SmartCane” for the blind
The marriage of two technologies can achieve awesome things. Students at IIT Delhi are certainly making an impression with a new invention, the SmartCane, which enhances one of the world’s oldest instruments—the walking stick—by adding SONAR, a technique used to navigate and communicate underwater, to help visually impaired people to walk independently.
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New OECD report leads to questions about educational innovation
While the OECD has released a number of reports this year, their most recent report addresses the measurement of educational innovation at the classroom and school levels.
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“Never again”: for an education toward critical self-reflection
The education system, recovering from economic crisis, increasingly obsesses itself with downsizing and rationalising, with “student learning outcomes” determined by test scores and the job market. Now, more than ever, we need to return to Adorno.
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Lithuania: The incredible shrinking university degree
The allure of a university diploma gives way to the security of vocational training in the post-2008 economy.
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Macedonian authorities claim social networks ‘have always been blocked’ in university dorms
Censorship of freedom of expression by Macedonian authorities is nothing new, but seems to be developing in the small southeast European country.
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