Tag Archive | "Russia"

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Georgia: How to Paint an Enemy

Posted on 09 March 2010 by Eka Chitanava and Temo Bardzimashvili

In words and pictures, Georgian students express their feelings about Russia and the 2008 war. A TOL/Liberali multimedia production.

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Russia: Student Government with a Capital G

Posted on 13 August 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

A Moscow program allows university students to shadow city officials and come up with their own solutions to urban problems.

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Russia: Higher Education vs. The Economic Crisis

Posted on 17 July 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

An overview of the Russian government’s attempts to support higher education during the economic crisis.

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Russia: Winds of Change from the North

Posted on 01 June 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

A new research institute aims to preserve national cultures and develop education resources for the small-numbered indigenous peoples of the North.

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Russia: Will the USE be useful?

Posted on 01 May 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

Russian soon-to-be-graduates are anxiously preparing for the new standardized Unified State Examination (USE).

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Russia: Two Times Two Makes One

Posted on 12 February 2009 by Natalia Lazareva

Moscow’s universities finally have a rival: federal universities.

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Russia: Electronic Registers Click with Russian Parents

Posted on 19 December 2008 by Natalia Lazareva

A government pilot project allows parents to monitor their children’s academic progress electronically.

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Russia: New Approaches for a New Generation

Posted on 18 October 2008 by Evgeniya Konovalova

Two teachers at a Krasnodar secondary school toss the textbooks out of their classrooms.

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Russia: A Terrible Thing to Waste

Posted on 28 February 2008 by Galina Stolyarova

Education in Russia is becoming simply another tool of the ruling party

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Uzbekistan: Dead Letter

Posted on 23 July 2007 by Marina Kozlova

In three years’ time, Uzbekistan is supposed to have switched from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. But some laws are made to be broken.

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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.