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Why we should all be alarmed about our new university “businesses” and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest and workers’ demands. There is a common strand that links these elements, and the overall picture is deeply alarming.
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Left behind: the rural youth in Afghanistan’s election
Despite the success of Afghanistan’s transparent, peaceful election, engagement with rural populations remained low. Failure to address the growing disaffection resulting from the urban-rural gap threatens the country’s fragile progress.
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Seldon’s proposals for school reform are fundamentally flawed
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical mercerization of state education.
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Bosnian graduates face grim future
With unemployment among young people close to 60 per cent, even the best university education is no guarantee of a job.
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300 Pakistan international airlines employees fired for fake degrees
Pakistan’s national flag carrier airline Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has sacked 300 of its employees across several different departments over the last six months after they were found to have submitted fake academic degrees.
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Macedonian students demanding better living conditions called ‘unpatriotic’
In early March 2014, Macedonian students demanding better life conditions in state university dormitories published a blog entitled “Operation Dorm” that was accompanied by photos of inadequate living conditions in the facilities.
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Educating Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding its educational activities to include not only seminaries but universities offering a wide range of courses.
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Sustainable Development Programme Scholarships in Bhutan
Deadline: 30 April, 2014
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The Doctoral Fellowships at Dresden Leibniz Graduate School
Deadline: 15 September 2014
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Combating racism at an English university: I, Too, Am Oxford
‘Student experience’ is not just about teaching and learning, assessment and feedback.
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