Archive for June, 2014
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Learning Mobility Scoreboard Report: Member States must try harder
A new report by the Eurydice Network, Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for Learning abroad in Europe, highlights unequal opportunities, uneven commitments and a complex range of obstacles to learner mobility across Member States.
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Obstacles in education for Romani and Egyptian children
The famous poet, Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj stated, “From cradle to grave, the most beautiful (period) is the school age.” This statement, however, could hardly be supported by those familiar with the education that children living in the Konik camps receive.
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Academies and the neoliberal project: the lessons and costs of the conveyor belt
Having studied one of Britain’s flagship academies it seems that their good results may come at a high social cost – something the media talks far less about…
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Disability is no longer invisible in Mongolia
Advocacy groups and nongovernmental organizations in Mongolia have been working for many years to raise awareness about the challenges people with disabilities face participating in their communities. One of the […]
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YES project supporting youth engagement in democracy and human rights
In September 2013, the Jinishian Memorial Foundation launched the “Youth Engaged in Society 2013-2014” (YES) project, funded and supported by Open Society Foundations – Armenia.
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Crimea: One for the history books
Russia has already added information about its annexation of Crimea to a school history textbook with the version presented just as doctored as the results of the “referendum” used to claim overwhelming support for the move.
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To modernize economy, Russia offers scholarships abroad
The Russian government has unveiled a program that will allow Russian students to undertake graduate study at top foreign universities free of charge.
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Assessment teacher professional development and education content reforms in Armenia
Since 2009, one of OSF-Armenia’s priorities in its general education strategy has been to achieve policy change by piloting and improving subject standards and curricula.
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Refugee Studies: No atonement for the failure of politics
Policy makers’ interests can be diametrically opposed to those of refugees. Academic research offers important space to step back from the emergency and think beyond the narrow confines of the politically possible, argues Katy Long for Refugee Week.
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Indefinite strike at Lambeth College as the Cinderella sector is squeezed out again
A rolling strike at a London college is part of the defence against a broader attack on a vital but much ignored part of Britain’s education system.
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