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Albanian government expected to push ahead with controversial education reforms
Major changes to Albania’s higher education system are in the works despite protests from students who say their voice has been ignored, Balkan Insight reports. The changes, originally proposed by […]
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Kyrgyzstan’s Russian-language teaching getting squeezed out
In November, a Kyrgyz news agency posted a news story in Russian about the falling number of Russian-speaking schoolteachers in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city.
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A lesson in propaganda?
Lithuania’s Russian-language schools are under a microscope after students attend a boot camp for kids from ex-Soviet republics.
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Does capitalism need mass higher education?
The neoliberal paradigm is economically dead but ideologically still very active especially in the education sector, which has assumed a far more business-like and ‘entrepeneurial’ value system.
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OpenEd14: achieving the potential of open
The 11th Annual Open Education Conference
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Russia: Looking at history as a continuation of politics
The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and running with it.
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Bosnian court strikes down separate-but-equal schools
The high court of one of Bosnia’s ethnically determined regions has overturned the “two schools under one roof” system that separated Bosniak and Croatian students studying in the same school.
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The liberal arts in neoliberal times
In the neoliberal epoch the humanities have undergone a radical transformation.
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The Kyrgyzstan preschool lottery
A serious shortage of kindergartens has driven the few who can afford it into private schools of debatable quality. First in an occasional series.
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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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