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Russia: Student Government with a Capital G
At only twenty, Dmitri Miroshnikov, a student of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, has a hands-on role in the Moscow city administration, and has numerous official meetings and visits […]
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Kosovo: Worth the Paper It’s Printed On?
PRISTINA | Last month, from one day to the next, thousands of students in Kosovo learned that they would not be receiving the university degree that they thought they had […]
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Russia: Will the USE be useful?
ULYANOVSK, Russia | Almost all Russian soon-to-be graduates are trembling in the expectation of the looming date of 26 May. That is the “day of reckoning”, when their grasp of […]
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Bulgaria: Education on Strike, Education at Stake
SOFIA, Bulgaria | Many high school students were in the front lines of the January protests in Sofia, when a peaceful rally against government corruption and the slow pace of […]
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Romania: Children Learn to Recycle Paper by Making It
BUCHAREST, Romania | On the first floor of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, in the recently opened Cărtureşti library, lies the “Paper Book.” The book is small, with irregular […]
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Slovenia: More Scholarships or More Problems?
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia | In the last year, Slovenia has witnessed sharp increases in the prices of basic necessities like food, gas and electricity. An inflation rate of 5.6 % means […]
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Hungary: Hard Cases
BUDAPEST, Hungary | It’s hard to say whether the two young men near the entrance to the Belvarosi Tanoda high school are teachers or students. Wearing shorts and T-shirts, they […]
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Armenia: Not Quite Ready
YEREVAN, Armenia | Lusine Khojayan is usually so tired after coming home from work, she has little energy to play with her three children. Khojayan is an elementary school teacher […]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Two Schools Under One Roof
Sarajevo, BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA | In early March 2008, the town council of Capljina, a Croat-majority town in the country’s south, announced that all Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Serb […]
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Croatia: Street Smart
ZAGREB | Thousands of Croatian students who took to the streets this month to protest a new university admissions test and reforms in higher education, complaining that schools and universities […]
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