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Shaken by court ruling, Romanian church comes roaring back
With the public firmly on the side of teaching religion in school, the debate shifts to the rights of non-Orthodox students.
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Lithuania: Predators in the schoolyard
Sex-abuse scandals at two schools for troubled children prompt calls for the country to overhaul its foster-care system.
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University enrollment plunges in Romania
The number of students attending Romania’s universities fell by nearly half from 2009 to 2013.
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Transylvania’s religious schools rise from the grave
In a decade, church-run schools have become a serious alternative for Romania’s Hungarian minority.
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Educating Russians abroad
In 2014, the Russian government launched the ‘Global Education’ programme of postgraduate education abroad.
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Howard Clark’s scholarship: commitment and contribution
April Carter explores Howard Clark’s academic contribution to the study of nonviolent action.
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Lessons for Israel on how shared education can bridge divided communities
Israel is a deeply divided society, a fact reinforced by separate schools for Jews, Arabs and Christians. In 1984, the Hand-in-Hand movement began working to build peace via a network of integrated, bilingual schools for Arab and Jewish children in Israel, but in recent days their bilingual Max Rayne school in Jerusalem has been the target of an arson attack.
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Citizenship education in the Netherlands
The SIRIUS European Policy Network on the education of children and young people with a migrant background held an international conference in Brussels last month. One of the workshops planned […]
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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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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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