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Azerbaijan closes Gülen schools
Once seen as an instrument of Turkish soft power, the educational programme has fallen foul of a battle between Prime Minister Erdoğan and influential preacher Fethullah Gülen.
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Gove’s own Operation Trojan Horse: the privatisation of our schools
Yesterday education minister Michael Gove was demoted to the post of chief whip. His covert privatisation of schools across England goes on.
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Plagiarism widespread in Kazakhstan’s academic community
One in 10 academic papers in Kazakhstan contains some plagiarism, Tengri News reports, citing the National Center of Science and Technical Information.
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Tajikistan: Free Alexander Sodiqov!
On June 16, Alexander Sodiqov, a political science PhD student at the University of Toronto, was arrested in Tajikistan while conducting research on conflict resolution.
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Serbian academic scandals fuel plan to check government officials’ diplomas
Serbia’s Education Ministry is pushing for authority to check the authenticity of future government officials’ claimed academic credentials, Balkan Insight reports.
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Putin’s dissertation and the revenge of RuNet
While increasing regulation and manipulation are restricting Russia’s online space, activists are still finding innovative ways to use it to uncover corruption, such as a site uncovering plagiarism among Russian politicians.
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Why Chadian students braved arrest and stormed their embassy in Algeria
Issa Kelei, a leader of a student movement that defends the interests of Chadian students in Algeria, was arrested by Algerian authorities on April 29, 2014. He and other Chadian students had been protesting the lack of financial support from their government in front of the Chadian Embassy in Algiers.
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300 Pakistan international airlines employees fired for fake degrees
Pakistan’s national flag carrier airline Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has sacked 300 of its employees across several different departments over the last six months after they were found to have submitted fake academic degrees.
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Pity the poor teacher
Yardsticks vary, but however you measure it, teachers are underpaid across the post-communist world, with grave implications for the quality of education.
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Ukraine’s younger generation seeks new direction
Ukraine is a very different country than it was just a week ago, following a protest movement led by young people who overthrew the Russian-backed government.
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