Central Europe
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Private Practices: Exploring the Privatization of Education
Transitions, a Prague-based media training organization, is looking for motivated journalists to participate in an intensive, one-month online program, scheduled to take place from mid-March to mid-April.
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Pity the poor teacher
Yardsticks vary, but however you measure it, teachers are underpaid across the post-communist world, with grave implications for the quality of education.
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Special needs, common problems
Lithuania’s stuttering progress on retrofitting schools for the disabled reflects a trend across the European Union.
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Really open education, reflections from the CC policy debate
Almost 40 experts and stakeholders from a range of educational projects, national schooling systems, and national and international non-governmental organizations across Europe came together for the ROE debate.
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Dark-skinned danger
A police-issued coloring book teaches Czech children a lesson about adults’ fears.
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New report on the state of Open Educational Resources in Poland published
UNESCO Institute for Informational Technologies in Education (IITE) has published a new country report on the state and challenges of the Open Educational Resources (OER) in Poland, titled Open Educational […]
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Shared Interest in Developing 21st Century Adult Learners’ Literacy Skills
Close to 30 adult literacy teachers and trainers from 13 countries met in Bratislava, Slovakia, for the Grundtvig workshop entitled “Developing 21st Century Adult Learners’ Literacy Skills.”
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A Better Start in Slovakia
The question of how to promote equal access to education for Romani children in Slovakia is a difficult one.
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Rescuing afterschool tanodas in Hungary
Operating for almost a decade in Hungary, tanodas are community-based extracurricular schools. They run after school and aim to support and teach disadvantaged Romani students; they aim to foster their […]
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In a Class by Themselves
“In Poland, being from Chechnya brings about lots of problems. If you’re a refugee child, it’s even worse.”
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