Archive for May, 2014
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Education and flags: seminal for winning the hearts and minds of Syria’s new generation?
How do Salafi and Salafi-Jihadi groups in Syria use education and flags to foster supportive identities among school students in liberated areas’? These play a significant role in drawing the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Syrian society.
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Combatting youth unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s youth unemployment crisis threatens to undermine national educational reforms, opportunities for innovation, and economic prosperity by creating a significant ‘brain drain’ of Generation Y workers.
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Students discover a mummy during an expedition in coastal Chile
Ten student members from the Academy of Archaeology in municipal school E -26 “America” have had an unforgettable experience.
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Putin’s dissertation and the revenge of RuNet
While increasing regulation and manipulation are restricting Russia’s online space, activists are still finding innovative ways to use it to uncover corruption, such as a site uncovering plagiarism among Russian politicians.
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Dominican Catholic church sues NGO for sexual education campaign
The Catholic Church filed an appeal against the Dominican Association for Family Welfare (Profamilia) [es] to withdraw their advertising campaign, “Your sexual and reproductive rights are human rights,” which uses the slogan “Know, Act, Demand” and aims to raise awareness about sex education, condom use, abortion, incest, harassment, and high-risk pregnancies.
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Can technology transform education in Trinidad & Tobago?
Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Education recently co-hosted the second Virtual Educa Caribbean forum, a two-day workshop which explored different ways in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can have an impact on education.
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What’s education for, privilege or meritocracy?
A British composer and educator asks whether individual effort can really counter structural privilege in the long run.
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Algeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness
Some of the most common reactions to the mass kidnapping of school girls by the jihadist group Boko Haram in Nigeria are to ask questions like: how can this be happening? Why would anyone do something so terrible?
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Why Chadian students braved arrest and stormed their embassy in Algeria
Issa Kelei, a leader of a student movement that defends the interests of Chadian students in Algeria, was arrested by Algerian authorities on April 29, 2014. He and other Chadian students had been protesting the lack of financial support from their government in front of the Chadian Embassy in Algiers.
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Students in Chile protest for education reform
The first march for education during the current government of President Michelle Bachelet took place on May 8, 2014, with due prior authorization.
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