Post Tagged with: "Policy"

  • Georgia: education gap has alarming economic ramifications

    Georgia: education gap has alarming economic ramifications

    When Rusudan, a 47-year-old woman from Georgia’s western city of Zugdidi, decided to move her son from a public school to a private school seven years ago, it was not a light-hearted decision.

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  • Education reform in England

    Education reform in England

    To get a handle on the extent of reforms introduced in England by Michael Gove, the former Minister of Education, we asked David Eddy-Spicer to share with IEN some of what he has observed while he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of London’s Institute of Education.

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  • Kyrgyzstan approves standards for secondary education

    Kyrgyzstan approves standards for secondary education

    Since 2006, the Educational Program of the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan has provided technical and methodological support to the Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic in the development of educational tools to promote a competence-based approach, and the establishment of the Framework National Curriculum of Secondary Education.

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  • Uzbekistan cotton harvest disrupts schools

    Uzbekistan cotton harvest disrupts schools

    As in years past, Uzbekistan’s annual cotton harvest is wreaking havoc on the educational system.

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  • School-less in Kyiv

    School-less in Kyiv

    Years of sprawl, along with developers’ empty pledges to build private schools, are creating a crisis in the city’s suburbs. Second in an occasional series.

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  • The school day: Singapore

    The school day: Singapore

    With school starting again here in the United States, I’ve been thinking back to my children’s experiences at the end of the last school year in Finland that we chronicled last June. To get another perspective on what school is like in another country, I asked our colleague here at IEN, Paul Chua, to talk with me a bit about his son’s experiences in 2nd grade in Singapore.

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  • ‘Traditional’ academics are endangered species

    ‘Traditional’ academics are endangered species

    Profound changes have transformed the role of the ‘traditional’ academic in Australian universities, so much so that this once typical academic might soon be numbered among the nation’s endangered species.

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  • Student activism is being sabotaged and this is why it matters

    Student activism is being sabotaged and this is why it matters

    Students have been at the forefront of social and political change throughout modern history. From supporting the anti-apartheid struggle, to standing against racism and against the Vietnam War, student participation has become more crucial than ever for any progressive movement.

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  • Focus on the Philippines

    Focus on the Philippines

    Recently, Contributing Editor Paul Chua spoke with Dr. Vicente Reyes on current issues affecting education in the Phillipines.

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  • Major survey of international students in South Africa

    Major survey of international students in South Africa

    The first major study of international students in South Africa has found pull factors to be affordable fees, government subsidies for students from the region, proximity to home and cost of living, the strong reputation of higher education and currency of its qualifications, according to the survey’s authors professors Jenny J Lee and Chika Sehoole.

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