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A Cloak and Dagger Farce in Ukraine
Absurd espionage charges against an academic and two young men would be funny if the stakes weren’t so high.
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When Does Free Education Have to be Paid for?
Kazan resident Yekaterina Matveyeva was dreading the first parents’ meeting of the new school year. Her two children – born just a year apart – are pupils in Years 3 […]
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Arrested Development
VILNIUS | Edita Bagdoniene is a happily married mother of two, but sometimes she gets so frustrated taking care of her young sons day in and day out that she […]
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Angola: A Decidedly Mixed Bag
Eighteen-year-old Johanna da Conceicao Silva is one of the lucky ones. She has received a second chance to further her education through the Adolescent Girls’ Education Project, despite the ordeal […]
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Ukraine: Fixing Past Problems, Causing New Ones
Kyiv | Seventh-grade student Karina Ilyasheva is on her way home from school. It is already after 8 pm and she is very tired, having sat through six regular lessons […]
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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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Ukraine: Unfair Advantages
KYIV | Two girls cry with happiness on the steps of a nationally renowned university. Both have been offered free places at the university, but for very different reasons.
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Romania: Diploma Factory
BUCHAREST | When Spiru Haret University, Romania’s largest private higher education institute, requested the certification of an unprecedented number of diplomas, it set off alarm bells in the ministry of […]
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Uzbekistan: New Model, Old Problems
With one third of its population children under the age of 15, Uzbekistan has had little choice but to spend millions of dollars on education reforms since the mid-1990s. But […]
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Ukraine: Running in Place
KYIV, Ukraine | Fourteen-year-old Sergey Gusev recently skipped class to play online games in an Internet cafe. His parents, who thought he was in school, believe that their son is […]
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