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Education Politics & Policy
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Catholics First?
A right-wing fringe blogger ignites debate in Poland over the role of personal religious faith in public education.
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Prominent Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti jailed for life
With its shocking outcome, this trial might result in an increase in violence in the Xinjiang region, where protests for the mistreatment of a moderate voice could motivate the more radical factions.
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Georgia: grappling with teacher troubles
In 1960, the Georgian poet Ioseb Noneshvili lauded teachers as role models and pillars of society who were endowed with the “light of knowledge.”
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Badass teachers and the future of American democracy
Education should be a transformative experience. Instead, it’s being converted into a commodity that can be quantified, bought and sold.
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Education reform in England
To get a handle on the extent of reforms introduced in England by Michael Gove, the former Minister of Education, we asked David Eddy-Spicer to share with IEN some of what he has observed while he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of London’s Institute of Education.
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Kyrgyzstan approves standards for secondary education
Since 2006, the Educational Program of the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan has provided technical and methodological support to the Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic in the development of educational tools to promote a competence-based approach, and the establishment of the Framework National Curriculum of Secondary Education.
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Focus on the Philippines
Recently, Contributing Editor Paul Chua spoke with Dr. Vicente Reyes on current issues affecting education in the Phillipines.
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Universities face bankruptcy as state fails to pay
Zimbabwean universities are faced with bankruptcy as the government has failed to settle a US$64 million debt, only managing to pay US$20,000 a month.
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What the FSB is Doing in Russian Universities
In Soviet times, the KGB kept a close watch on intellectuals – they might turn out to be dissidents. Today, the FSB still skulks on university corridors…
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Consequences of privatization
In response to our recent post on Sweden, Henry Levin shared “Evaluating Consequences of Educational Privatization: Ideas and consequences of market principles in education,” a power point presentation from a lecture that he gave at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, in March of 2013.
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