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Strenghening education CSOs initiative
The relationship between the third and public sectors is undergoing fundamental changes, creating challenges and opportunities for education civil society organizations (CSOs) that were unimaginable a few decades ago. The […]
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A Few Keys Short of a Keyboard
SKOPJE | In a dilapidated wooden shack halfway between Skopje and Tetovo, 140 students try to learn as their schoolhouse literally falls down around them. The building shakes when the […]
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Conference Report: Innovation in Pre-University Education
Conference Report: Innovation in Pre-University Education – Education as an Open System Belgrade, Serbia 29 – 30 November 2010 As the opening of the international conference entitled `Innovation in Pre-University […]
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Bosnia: Rare Optimism on the Education Front
SARAJEVO | Back in 2004, Nadja Steta, a primary school teacher in the Bosnian capital was among those who taught the first generation of children enrolling in primary school under […]
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Bulgaria: Generation Gap
SOFIA | Asen Georgiev is a senior student of Bulgarian philology at Sofia University, training to become a teacher of Bulgarian language and literature. But, like many other people his […]
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Turkey: Unequal Opportunities
ISTANBUL | In today’s Turkey, if you are a young girl from a poor family with many children, and your parents have only attended primary school, there’s only about a […]
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Romania: Village Kindergartens Struggle to Survive
BRASOV, Romania | A recent renovation brought new furniture and clean, bright bathrooms to Harman village’s Kindergarten No. 1. But the daily maintenance of this four-room school for 87 children […]
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Serbia: On Edge
BELGRADE, Serbia | New exit exams for elementary school students, the introduction of Romani teaching assistants, an equal starting point for all children – all were big changes brought about […]
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Albania: A Deep Hole From Which to Emerge
Tirana | For four professors at the University of Tirana, 28 June was their own graduation day – the day they won seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, at least […]
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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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