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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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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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Hidden costs of state education are stigmatising poorer pupils
It’s official: poverty in England is getting worse. Britain is on the verge of becoming a nation deeply and permanently divided by poverty, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, with 2020 marking the end of the “first decade since records began where there has been no fall in absolute poverty”.
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Uzbekistan: Forced to labor in cotton fields, students rebel
Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced laborers to pick the cotton harvest causes a furor abroad every year.
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The liberal arts in neoliberal times
In the neoliberal epoch the humanities have undergone a radical transformation.
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A student movement against a mishandled sexual abuse investigation rocks west Bengal
The Indian state of West Bengal it witnessing a revolution of sorts in #Hokkolorob, the ”Let There Be Noise” movement, which started in Jadavpur University last month and is spread like wildfire across the country.
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Thailand’s military stopped university lecture on ‘authoritarianism’ and detained professors
Last week a group of students at the prestigious Thammasat University hosted a public lecture on “the collapse of authoritarian regimes in other countries”. While the discussion was presumably focused on other countries, the government seemed to decide the topic was too close to the current situation in Thailand and shut it down.
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Public sector strikes back in Serbia
Two of Serbia’s largest groups of public employees have launched strikes in the past week over the government’s austerity plans.
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In Serbia, a textbook case of identity politics
The president’s gift to schoolchildren in a northern city sparks howls of outrage across the border in Croatia.
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What have we learned about the universe of innovation and what’s ahead?
One year ago, the Center for Education Innovations (CEI) set out to increase our understanding of the universe of education innovations serving the poor around the world. We wanted to […]
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