Asia Pacific
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Following political pressure, citizen-led rural libraries shut down in China
China’s rural areas don’t receive the same education resources that the country’s wealthier urban centers do. This gap is a widely acknowledged problem, and many organizations have been established to improve the facilities in rural China and ensure that the students there aren’t left behind.
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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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Postgraduates – public good or job qualification?
An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe.
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‘Traditional’ academics are endangered species
Profound changes have transformed the role of the ‘traditional’ academic in Australian universities, so much so that this once typical academic might soon be numbered among the nation’s endangered species.
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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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“Never again”: for an education toward critical self-reflection
The education system, recovering from economic crisis, increasingly obsesses itself with downsizing and rationalising, with “student learning outcomes” determined by test scores and the job market. Now, more than ever, we need to return to Adorno.
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Singapore’s libraries don’t want kids reading about tango the penguin and his two loving fathers
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) has banned and destroyed copies of three children’s books that deal with same-sex couples and adoption after it received a complaint that the books are not ‘pro-family’.
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Student faces criminal charges for disrupting Philippine president’s speech on independence day
Philippine President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III was delivering his Independence Day speech when somebody from the crowd shouted: “Oust the pork barrel king! There’s no change in the Philippines!” […]
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Book Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: Case Studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia just published
The Open Society Education Support Program announces the publication of Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: Case Studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia
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ASER Baithaks, Village Level Community Meetings
A key to sensitize communities of the importance of quality education Pakistan │ According to ASER[1] 2012 Report 23% of the school aged children (13% girls and 10% boys) in Pakistan, 6-16, […]
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