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Tajikistan: Free Alexander Sodiqov!
via twitter.com 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. The American...
View ArticlePlagiarism 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. A computerized check of 7,000 papers written for...
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This project is helping France unlearn its stereotypes about Romania
Photo by Dennis Jarvis (via flickr.com) Misinformation abounds in France when it comes to Romania, and the Newsroum project, an online initiative that sought to present different perspectives on...
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Azerbaijan closes Gülen schools
By IWPR — Institute for War & Peace Reporting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license. The author is the Senat RP/Polish...
View ArticleConsequences of the detention of Alexander Sodiqov
My friend and colleague Alexander Sodiqov is being held in Tajikistan without charge, under suspicion of espionage and treason. On 16 June 2014, my friend and colleague Alexander Sodiqov was arrested...
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5 modern African thinkers on identity, language, and regionalism
Street Philosophy at City Bowl, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, by Anne Fröhlich on Flickr – CC license-NC-2.0 African philosophy is generally overlooked in the field of philosophy. The reasons...
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An open letter to Nicky Morgan
A teacher in England writes anonymously to the UK’s new Secretary of State for Education. Classroom at Port Charlotte High School where the English language is taught, specifically British Literature...
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New OECD report leads to questions about educational innovation
Nature related books on a bookshelf.This image is attributed to Hans Hillewaert and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share ALike 3.0 Unported license. While the OECD has released a...
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New series: liberalism in neoliberal times – dimensions, contradictions, limits
Today we launch a new series, curated by Goldsmiths in partnership with OurKingdom, on liberalism in neoliberal times. Liberalism was undoubtedly conceived as an emancipatory project, one which duly...
View ArticleOpenEd14: Achieving the Potential of Open
Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a massive, high quality open content infrastructure on top of which innovative people and organizations are building a new generation of educational models....
View Article100 young people are vying for the title of world’s best German language student
Young German Olympiad competitors from all over the world arrived at Frankfurt airport on 3 August 2014. They had made their way from Afghanistan, New Zealand, Cameroon, China, Romania, Iran and many...
View ArticleMajor survey of international students in South Africa
The first major study of international students in South Africa has found pull factors to be affordable fees, government subsidies for students from the region, proximity to home and cost of living,...
View ArticleFocus on the Philippines
Recently, Contributing Editor Paul Chua spoke with Dr. Vicente Reyes on current issues affecting education in the Phillipines. In the following post, Dr. Reyes responds to questions about the current...
View ArticlePostgraduates – Public good or job qualification?
An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe....
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Education reform in England
David Eddy-Spicer To get a handle on the extent of reforms introduced in England by Michael Gove, the former Minister of Education, we asked David Eddy-Spicer to share with IEN some of what he has...
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Georgia: Education gap has alarming economic ramifications
When Rusudan, a 47-year-old woman from Georgia’s western city of Zugdidi, decided to move her son from a public school to a private school seven years ago, it was not a light-hearted decision. Like...
View ArticleEconomist: education system is impeding Lithuania’s innovativeness
The education system oriented at academic achievements prevents Lithuania from becoming an innovative country. It does not promote innovative thinking, entrepreneurship and is impeding such traits says...
View ArticleUniversity rankings: past, present, future
College and university rankings have been in the news recently, both in the United States and around the world as the Times Higher Education (THE) released their World University Rankings for 2014-2015...
View ArticleKyrgyzstani lawmakers demand action on underpaid teachers
Kyrgyzstan is facing a shortage of teachers, as fewer graduates are willing to endure rock-bottom pay and poor teaching conditions, EurasiaNet.org reports. The number of teachers increased from 69,000...
View ArticlePrivate, subsidized schools in Chile
Chilean private subsidized schools operate in a radically different environment from charter schools in the US. Since the imposition of the voucher-based system during the Pinochet dictatorship,...
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