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Local or international school? The dilemma facing expats in Hong Kong
As a global financial center, Hong Kong attracts a large number of expat families. For those with young children, education is a priority, but the city’s limited options can prove to be a headache.
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Book Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: Case Studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia just published
The Open Society Education Support Program announces the publication of Education, Privatisation and Social Justice: Case Studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia
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Tongues untied
After years of delay, an effort to teach Romani in Serbian schools may be gaining steam.
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Trojan Horse – conjuring the slave, the witch and the grand inquisitor
Stories of allegations of the Islamification and radicalisation in Muslim-majority schools in Birmingham play on classic Islamophobic tropes.
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Teaching history for democratic citizenship
History teaching should not be about providing answers, but about asking the right questions.
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Russia’s media crackdown spills into academia
The crackdown on Russia’s free press is as old as Vladimir Putin’s presidency. In the last two years, since Putin returned to the Kremlin for a third go, the process has accelerated.
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Why we should all be alarmed about our new university “businesses” and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest and workers’ demands. There is a common strand that links these elements, and the overall picture is deeply alarming.
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Left behind: the rural youth in Afghanistan’s election
Despite the success of Afghanistan’s transparent, peaceful election, engagement with rural populations remained low. Failure to address the growing disaffection resulting from the urban-rural gap threatens the country’s fragile progress.
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Call for Applications for Galatasaray University Model United Nations Conference 2014
GSMUN is an annual Model United Nations Conference that provides university students around the world an atmosphere of mutual understanding for all voices to be heard about international relations and global affairs.
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Seldon’s proposals for school reform are fundamentally flawed
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical mercerization of state education.
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