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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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Tirana closes colleges as report highlights alleged degree fraud
Albanian authorities are shutting down 18 private universities after an inspection found widespread awarding of dubious diplomas, according to Balkan Insight.
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Students in India have developed a “SmartCane” for the blind
The marriage of two technologies can achieve awesome things. Students at IIT Delhi are certainly making an impression with a new invention, the SmartCane, which enhances one of the world’s oldest instruments—the walking stick—by adding SONAR, a technique used to navigate and communicate underwater, to help visually impaired people to walk independently.
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Gun-toting kids camp causes alarm in Serbia
Religious hardliners in Serbia are being accused of abuse of minors – and even of breaking the law – in connection with a controversial summer camp.
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Kyrgyzstan: Yurt preschools reach nomadic children
At first glance, it looks like another iconic felt yurt in a remote pasture high in Kyrgyzstan’s mountains. But step through the door and a visitor can quickly see it is no ordinary nomadic dwelling.
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As another school and shelter in Gaza is bombed, a UN spokesman breaks down in tears in a video interview
Chris Gunness, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesperson broke down in tears while wrapping a TV interview with Al Jazeera Arabic about a lethal attack on a UN school that was sheltering 3,300 Palestinians in Gaza.
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“Never again”: for an education toward critical self-reflection
The education system, recovering from economic crisis, increasingly obsesses itself with downsizing and rationalising, with “student learning outcomes” determined by test scores and the job market. Now, more than ever, we need to return to Adorno.
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Lithuania: The incredible shrinking university degree
The allure of a university diploma gives way to the security of vocational training in the post-2008 economy.
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Macedonian authorities claim social networks ‘have always been blocked’ in university dorms
Censorship of freedom of expression by Macedonian authorities is nothing new, but seems to be developing in the small southeast European country.
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An open letter to Nicky Morgan
A teacher in England writes anonymously to the UK’s new Secretary of State for Education.
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