Archive | Southeastern Europe

Serbia: On Edge

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Posted on 22 December 2009 by Igor Jovanovic

Serbia’s new education law sparks fears of massive teacher layoffs in the near future.

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Albania: A Deep Hole From Which to Emerge

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Posted on 24 November 2009 by Besar Likmeta

Although educational reform is higher up on the government agenda than in years past, many worry that current financing won’t be enough to reverse years of neglect.

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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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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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Montenegro: Reality Check

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Posted on 31 July 2009 by Drasko Djuranovic

Montenegro has made impressive progress in education reform, but it’s still too early to tell whether success is just around the corner or years away.

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Macedonia: Giving Education the Runaround

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Posted on 05 April 2009 by Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska

Macedonia’s elections won’t likely usher in changes to the country’s troubled education system.

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Romania: Rural Idyll

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Posted on 24 November 2008 by Sinziana Demian

A Romanian village school affected by “white flight” tries to adjust.

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Kosovo: Blind Children to Attend Regular Schools

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Posted on 22 October 2008 by Enver Ulaj

A new program aims to integrate blind students into mainstream schools in Kosovo.

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Romania: Children Learn to Recycle Paper by Making It

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Posted on 22 October 2008 by Ani Sandu

A unique summer program teaches children how to turn discarded paper into something new.

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Kosovo: No Playground Politics

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Posted on 19 October 2008 by Enver Ulaj

Albanian and Serbian children in the village of Brestovik continue to attend ethnically segregated schools.

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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.