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Poland: A Season of Change
POZNAN, Poland | The blooming chestnut tree has long symbolized a rite of passage for Polish 19-year-olds –school-leaving exams held in late April and early May. And in what could […]
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Russia: Gagarin Had Free Education
ULYANOVSK, Russia | When Russia’s pensioners took to the streets early this year in protest at plans to reforms social benefits, observers predicted this would be just one of a […]
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Bosnia: Girls Just Want to Go to School
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the capital, elementary schools, secondary schools, and especially universities are bursting at the seams with students. But just over an hour’s drive northwest of […]
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Croatia: Learning Curves
ZAGREB, Croatia | The Croatian education system is in the midst of the most important reform process since the country’s independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. But while the Science, Education, […]
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Kyrgyzstan: Seeds for a Poor Harvest
In the Soviet era, a student from Central Asia who wanted to study international law would have had to compete with thousands if not tens of thousands of other students […]
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Albania: In the Bleak Midwinter
TIRANA, Albania | On the third floor of a dirty, marble-faced building that hosts two hostile educational trade unions, the newspaper of the ruling Socialist Party, and a bingo hall, […]
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Bulgaria: The Schools that Aren’t Schools
SOFIA, Bulgaria | The imam may have traveled halfway across Bulgaria to meet us, but his first concern as he arrives at Sofia’s bus station is clear: “I hope you’re […]
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