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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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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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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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Transylvania’s religious schools rise from the grave
In a decade, church-run schools have become a serious alternative for Romania’s Hungarian minority.
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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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Even extremists have a right to freedom of speech on campus
There may well be an outcry from student unions and lecturers’ organisations against proposals in a new counter-terrorism bill from home secretary Theresa May for a new statutory duty on universities and colleges to “prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism”.
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Kuwait sentences 1,000 Bidoon children to illiteracy
More than 1,000 stateless children in Kuwait are not allowed to go to school. “Your silence on preventing Bidoon children access to education is a crime,” reads the placard in the protest. The other one reads: “I have a dream. But I am Bidoon.”
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The children of Augusta
Two abandoned schools in a Sicilian port town raise uncomfortable truths around how Europe is treating its ‘native’ and ‘migrant’ children.
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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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