Central Europe
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Czech president: too many lawyers, not enough technical grads
Citing a shortage of engineers and other technical professionals, the president of the Czech Republic is calling for the country to break with its tradition of free university education by imposing fees on humanities students
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Lithuania: Predators in the schoolyard
Sex-abuse scandals at two schools for troubled children prompt calls for the country to overhaul its foster-care system.
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Is opportunity knocking for Slovakia’s Roma?
The country’s most deprived minority could find new paths to work from a boost in vocational education.
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Russia protests school searches in Lithuania
The Kremlin is expressing ire over recent police raids at Russian-language schools in Lithuania whose students attended a controversial post-Soviet youth camp this summer, TASS reports.
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A lesson in propaganda?
Lithuania’s Russian-language schools are under a microscope after students attend a boot camp for kids from ex-Soviet republics.
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Warsaw’s schools under the restitution ax
They survived war, communism, and transition, but a new threat looms.
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Why was a boy with autism repeatedly denied an inclusive education?
This month, MDAC and our partners at the League of Human Rights submitted a legal challenge against the Czech Republic on behalf of a boy who was denied access to numerous schools at the European Court of Human Rights.
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Integration later
A Hungarian court says a church-run school in a Romani community segregates. Its backers says it offers a head start.
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Catholics First?
A right-wing fringe blogger ignites debate in Poland over the role of personal religious faith in public education.
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Economist: education system is impeding Lithuania’s innovativeness
The education system oriented at academic achievements prevents Lithuania from becoming an innovative country. It does not promote innovative thinking, entrepreneurship and is impeding such traits says Senior Economist at Swedbank Laura Galdikiene, cites LETA.
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