Society & Education

  • Over forty delegates of the RWCT International Consortium member organizations, the Board of Directors and ESP representatives came together in Budapest.

    News from the RWCT world

    Over forty delegates of the RWCT International Consortium member organizations, the Board of Directors and ESP representatives came together in Budapest on 9-12 December 2010 for the first face-to-face annual […]

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  • India: Kashmir: On the Way Back?

    India: Kashmir: On the Way Back?

    Kashmir/New Delhi | In May of this year, four Kashmiri candidates passed India’s prestigious civil service examination. But what sparked celebration all across the region was the rare feat achieved […]

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  • Ukraine: Fixing Past Problems, Causing New Ones

    Ukraine: Fixing Past Problems, Causing New Ones

    Kyiv | Seventh-grade student Karina Ilyasheva is on her way home from school. It is already after 8 pm and she is very tired, having sat through six regular lessons […]

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  • Georgia: Class Struggle

    Georgia: Class Struggle

    This is the third in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. You can learn more about this project and […]

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  • Armenia: School for Scandal

    Armenia: School for Scandal

    YEREVAN | In what is still a conservative and hidebound country, Mariam Sukhudyan hardly comes across as typical. The smell of incense wafts across her family’s modest apartment in the […]

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  • Macedonia: Ongoing Saga

    Macedonia: Ongoing Saga

    SKOPJE | When you are not a member, the European Union (EU) seems like a very exclusive club. Especially when you originate from a non-EU country and you decide to […]

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  • Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland

    Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland

    JAVAKHETY | Teachers in Armenian school No. 1 in Ninotsminda spent the last weeks of the summer trying to figure out how many textbooks to order from the Georgian education […]

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  • Georgia: No Room For Sex Education

    Georgia: No Room For Sex Education

    TBILISI | Sixteen year-old Andro Chitadze is a high school student at public school No. 61 in Tblisi. Like his classmates, Chitadze gets his information about sex everywhere except in […]

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  • Bulgaria: Under Repair

    Bulgaria: Under Repair

    SOFIA | During this summer, repair works were intense at the Second English Language high school in Sofia, as in most Bulgarian schools during the summer holidays. However, replacing window […]

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  • Romania: Diploma Factory

    Romania: Diploma Factory

    BUCHAREST | When Spiru Haret University, Romania’s largest private higher education institute, requested the certification of an unprecedented number of diplomas, it set off alarm bells in the ministry of […]

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