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REF grantees recognized with three Roma integration awards from the European Commission
Three grantees of the Roma Education Fund (REF) received top prizes for their innovative work at the European Commission’s Roma Integration Award Ceremony in October. Among the four REF-supported nominees […]
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Warsaw’s schools under the restitution ax
They survived war, communism, and transition, but a new threat looms.
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Bosnia’s different truths
The fighting ended long ago, but it would be a stretch to say the country is at peace.
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The urgency of reforming madrasa education in Myanmar
The Muslim minority of Myanmar faces exclusion caused by discriminatory policy and a separate school system. A reform of the Islamic schools (madrasas) is urgently needed.
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Even extremists have a right to freedom of speech on campus
There may well be an outcry from student unions and lecturers’ organisations against proposals in a new counter-terrorism bill from home secretary Theresa May for a new statutory duty on universities and colleges to “prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism”.
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US student body grows ever more international, but inequality persists
Through its higher education system, the US student population is slowly shedding an unfortunate image it may have once had of being rather parochial.
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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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Why an open letter attacking China’s professors for ‘blackening the motherland’ is so worrisome
China’s authorities have waged an aggressive ideological battle against mainstream and new media over the past two years, upping the pressure on them to fall in line with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or face the consequences.
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Facebook fight: why we banned laptops, iPads and smartphones in lectures
I recently invited a top management consultant to give a guest lecture at my course at Copenhagen Business School. I went to sit among the students during the talk. They had been instructed to take notes, since the consultant was to be case material for their exam. Despite this, I watched a student sitting less than one metre in front of me spend almost the entire two-hour lecture on Facebook and private email.
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Estonian television raises red flags over Russia-sponsored youth camp
Ethnic Russian teenagers from Estonia are being militarized at youth camps organized in conjunction with Russian federal agencies, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.
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