Balkans
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REF grantees recognized with three Roma integration awards from the European Commission
Three grantees of the Roma Education Fund (REF) received top prizes for their innovative work at the European Commission’s Roma Integration Award Ceremony in October. Among the four REF-supported nominees […]
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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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Bosnian court strikes down separate-but-equal schools
The high court of one of Bosnia’s ethnically determined regions has overturned the “two schools under one roof” system that separated Bosniak and Croatian students studying in the same school.
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The young Roma women who are changing their communities
It isn’t because they don’t have their own televisions. Most of the families have large screens at home, but in this impoverished, isolated and marginalised Roma community, where there is no rubbish collection, no school, no street lights and no bus, the neighbours are not here for the TV, but for Magdalini.
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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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Literacy Cubed – Focus on Roma families
In July and August 2014, a family literacy programme (FLP) called Literacy Cubed, developed in a European partnership project implemented by five organizations – RWCT International Consortium and Asociatia Learn&Vision […]
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Regional Conference of Educators „Learning Through Inquiry“
“I explore, discover, wonder, question… the world around me” How to organize scientific research with children? How to take teaching process out of the classrooms – in the forest, city […]
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Balkan teachers and parents in opening day protests as school year begins
The new school year is off to a rocky start in several former Yugoslav countries, with teachers marching for better pay and protests from parents demanding changes in the curriculum.
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Five centuries of Bosnian history lost in fire, smoke, and water
Some of Bosnia’s most treasured archival documents appear to have been destroyed amid civil unrest in the country six months ago.
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