Archive | Higher Education

Romania: Diploma Factory

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Claudia Ciobanu

Education officials question the quality of education in Romania’s largest private university, jeopardizing the diplomas of more than 100,000 students and recent graduates.

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Ukraine: Unfair Advantages

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Alexander Belyakov

Ukraine’s new system of externally evaluated admissions exams has led to a surge in ‘privileged applicants’ claiming disadvantaged status in the admissions process.

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Macedonia: Ongoing Saga

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Mirkica Popovik

Macedonian university students in nearby Greece say they confront a Kafkaesque bureaucracy when trying to obtain legal residence there.

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Russia: Student Government with a Capital G

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Posted on 13 August 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

A Moscow program allows university students to shadow city officials and come up with their own solutions to urban problems.

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Kosovo: Worth the Paper It’s Printed On?

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Posted on 03 August 2009 by Besiana Xharra

With most of Kosovo’s universities under orders to shut down, students worry about the value of their degrees.

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Russia: Higher Education vs. The Economic Crisis

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Posted on 17 July 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

An overview of the Russian government’s attempts to support higher education during the economic crisis.

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Russia: Will the USE be useful?

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Posted on 01 May 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

Russian soon-to-be-graduates are anxiously preparing for the new standardized Unified State Examination (USE).

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Romania: A Doctor in the Family

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Posted on 30 March 2009 by Sinziana Demian

A scholarship program gives ambitious Romani students a chance to join the healing profession.

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Kazakhstan: Only the Nimble Survive

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Posted on 25 February 2009 by Rafis Abazov

Prosperity fed progress in Kazakhstan’s educational system. Now hard times must spur flexibility.

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Russia: Two Times Two Makes One

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Posted on 12 February 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

Moscow’s universities finally have a rival: federal universities.

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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.