Archive for March, 2014
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Kyrgyzstan’s schools mirror and breed social inequality
As her six-year-old daughter prepares to start school this September, Alina Bilyaletdinova says that sifting through online chat forums and scouring media reports of disgraced school principals has become “a full-time job.”
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Serbia: education, the market and democracy
What principles should underpin Serbia’s educational system from now to 2020?
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Combating racism at an English university: I, Too, Am Oxford
‘Student experience’ is not just about teaching and learning, assessment and feedback.
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Sex education in Croatia. The war between the church and government
It is an open clash between the Croatian Catholic Church and the center-left government.
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Lower aspirations for higher education
Since 2012 and the increase in university fees, effectively to £9,000 a year, there has been a steady erosion of logic in the debate about universities, their funding and the fundamental purpose of a university education.
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“Nuestra Escuela:” bringing love and creativity back into education
Traditional schooling has been wreaking havoc on individuals and communities for 200 years. It’s time to replace it with a new system of self-designed and community-supported webs of learning.
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Afghan youth debates: Khost regional media commit to responsible journalism
Media networks across Khost province in southeastern Afghanistan have pledged to provide robust, impartial coverage of the elections due to be held in just over two weeks’ time.
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“Our Berlin Wall in Syria”
Syrian Students for a Better Future is a WordPress blog by Syrian students at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The students are studying in the US as part of Jusoor […]
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Finnish education chief: ‘We created a school system based on equality’
Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7.
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Supporting the rights of Malian youth to education
While Mali is trying to reunite in its large territory strained by a prolonged internal conflict between the north and the rest of the country, its young people are impatient to move forward to build Mali’s future.
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