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Access, Equality & Inclusion
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School-less in Kyiv
Years of sprawl, along with developers’ empty pledges to build private schools, are creating a crisis in the city’s suburbs. Second in an occasional series.
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Norway’s shame: educational discrimination against Iranian students
Iranian students are being systematically discriminated against by the Norwegian government. This is a closed minded approach that goes against long term European interests.
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Education is Syria’s ‘Chance for Change’
As military, geostrategic and sectarian aspects of the Syrian conflict monopolize media attention, countless grassroots initiatives continue to challenge the chaos and impunity spreading throughout the country.
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Honors for an Afghani Migrant II – Education challenges for refugees in Greece
Last year in August we reported on Chalkboard with the article “Honors for an Afghani Migrant – An Afghani asylum seeker excels in Greek national University entry exams”[1], when Thessaloniki Mayor presented Vahit Fasil with an award from the city, honoring refugees during 2013 World Refugee Day.
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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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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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Azerbaijan closes Gülen schools
Once seen as an instrument of Turkish soft power, the educational programme has fallen foul of a battle between Prime Minister Erdoğan and influential preacher Fethullah Gülen.
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Singapore’s libraries don’t want kids reading about tango the penguin and his two loving fathers
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) has banned and destroyed copies of three children’s books that deal with same-sex couples and adoption after it received a complaint that the books are not ‘pro-family’.
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The search for a more equitable education system in Chile
Recently, I spoke with Dr. Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, Associate Researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education, at the University of Chile, in order to follow-up on an earlier post about the recent reforms in Chile.
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The role and impact of private schools in developing countries
This research has been conducted by the Department for International Development as a part of DFID Education Rigorous Literature Review. The research question driving the review is: can private schools […]
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