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Education is Syria’s ‘Chance for Change’
As military, geostrategic and sectarian aspects of the Syrian conflict monopolize media attention, countless grassroots initiatives continue to challenge the chaos and impunity spreading throughout the country.
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Honors for an Afghani Migrant II – Education challenges for refugees in Greece
Last year in August we reported on Chalkboard with the article “Honors for an Afghani Migrant – An Afghani asylum seeker excels in Greek national University entry exams”[1], when Thessaloniki Mayor presented Vahit Fasil with an award from the city, honoring refugees during 2013 World Refugee Day.
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Loans, university, and Britain’s debt-laden teenagers
Current funding of higher education in Britain places an unfair burden on the young.
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Our Dream: The Choice
In the town of Kyustendil, in western Bulgaria, 90 km southwest of Sofia, some Roma children are fighting age-old stereotypes by choosing to continue their education beyond the age of 16, as is mandated by law.
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Azerbaijan closes Gülen schools
Once seen as an instrument of Turkish soft power, the educational programme has fallen foul of a battle between Prime Minister Erdoğan and influential preacher Fethullah Gülen.
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Singapore’s libraries don’t want kids reading about tango the penguin and his two loving fathers
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) has banned and destroyed copies of three children’s books that deal with same-sex couples and adoption after it received a complaint that the books are not ‘pro-family’.
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Russia: Muscovites embrace learning Central Asian languages
Hear a man speaking Tajik on Moscow’s fashionable Krymskaya Embankment, and you could be forgiven for thinking he’s migrant worker on break from one of the many construction sites in the area.
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Learning Mobility Scoreboard Report: Member States must try harder
A new report by the Eurydice Network, Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for Learning abroad in Europe, highlights unequal opportunities, uneven commitments and a complex range of obstacles to learner mobility across Member States.
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Obstacles in education for Romani and Egyptian children
The famous poet, Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj stated, “From cradle to grave, the most beautiful (period) is the school age.” This statement, however, could hardly be supported by those familiar with the education that children living in the Konik camps receive.
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Academies and the neoliberal project: the lessons and costs of the conveyor belt
Having studied one of Britain’s flagship academies it seems that their good results may come at a high social cost – something the media talks far less about…
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