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The urgency of reforming madrasa education in Myanmar
The Muslim minority of Myanmar faces exclusion caused by discriminatory policy and a separate school system. A reform of the Islamic schools (madrasas) is urgently needed.
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Even extremists have a right to freedom of speech on campus
There may well be an outcry from student unions and lecturers’ organisations against proposals in a new counter-terrorism bill from home secretary Theresa May for a new statutory duty on universities and colleges to “prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism”.
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Does capitalism need mass higher education?
The neoliberal paradigm is economically dead but ideologically still very active especially in the education sector, which has assumed a far more business-like and ‘entrepeneurial’ value system.
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Why an open letter attacking China’s professors for ‘blackening the motherland’ is so worrisome
China’s authorities have waged an aggressive ideological battle against mainstream and new media over the past two years, upping the pressure on them to fall in line with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or face the consequences.
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Estonian television raises red flags over Russia-sponsored youth camp
Ethnic Russian teenagers from Estonia are being militarized at youth camps organized in conjunction with Russian federal agencies, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.
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Kuwait sentences 1,000 Bidoon children to illiteracy
More than 1,000 stateless children in Kuwait are not allowed to go to school. “Your silence on preventing Bidoon children access to education is a crime,” reads the placard in the protest. The other one reads: “I have a dream. But I am Bidoon.”
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Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
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Uzbekistan: Forced to labor in cotton fields, students rebel
Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced laborers to pick the cotton harvest causes a furor abroad every year.
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Pakistan warns universities not to question government following model UN controversy over Israeli booth
Uproar over a booth showcasing Israeli culture as part of a university Model United Nations event in Pakistan has prompted the country’s higher education authority to warn universities not to challenge “the perspective of the government.”
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Proposals for change in Chile
The Chilean system has seen some remarkable educational improvements since 2000 at the same time that income inequality and segregation has increased.
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