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Gender inequality in the higher education institutions in Armenia: causes and consequences
Gender equality in academia is viewed in the first instance as a human rights concern, but also as a premise for quality higher education and innovative science.
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Kyrgyzstan ends Uzbek-language graduation exams
Starting this year, ethnic Uzbek high school students in Kyrgyzstan will no longer be able to take final exams in their native language.
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Discrimination keeps Roma pupils down in Albania
Roma are often accused of taking no interest in education – but when they do, Albanian schools are often far from welcoming.
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Call for proposals: Diversity Outreach and Support for NAFSA 2015 in Boston, MA
Submissions for the poster fair category “Increasing Diversity Outreach and Support for Education Abroad” at the 2015 NAFSA Annual Conference in Boston, MA are now open. The deadline to submit proposals for the […]
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Lessons for Israel on how shared education can bridge divided communities
Israel is a deeply divided society, a fact reinforced by separate schools for Jews, Arabs and Christians. In 1984, the Hand-in-Hand movement began working to build peace via a network of integrated, bilingual schools for Arab and Jewish children in Israel, but in recent days their bilingual Max Rayne school in Jerusalem has been the target of an arson attack.
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REF grantees recognized with three Roma integration awards from the European Commission
Three grantees of the Roma Education Fund (REF) received top prizes for their innovative work at the European Commission’s Roma Integration Award Ceremony in October. Among the four REF-supported nominees […]
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The urgency of reforming madrasa education in Myanmar
The Muslim minority of Myanmar faces exclusion caused by discriminatory policy and a separate school system. A reform of the Islamic schools (madrasas) is urgently needed.
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US student body grows ever more international, but inequality persists
Through its higher education system, the US student population is slowly shedding an unfortunate image it may have once had of being rather parochial.
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Does capitalism need mass higher education?
The neoliberal paradigm is economically dead but ideologically still very active especially in the education sector, which has assumed a far more business-like and ‘entrepeneurial’ value system.
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Hidden costs of state education are stigmatising poorer pupils
It’s official: poverty in England is getting worse. Britain is on the verge of becoming a nation deeply and permanently divided by poverty, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, with 2020 marking the end of the “first decade since records began where there has been no fall in absolute poverty”.
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