· September, 2013

Stories about Education from September, 2013

St. Lucia: Hair's the Issue

  20 September 2013

[The Principal] believes that if he allows this…long haired boy, who never did anything wrong at the school, to enter the classroom, then chaos will prevail…[but] by resisting the simple,...

Gender Inequality in Laos and Cambodia Schools

  16 September 2013

Laurence Bradford studied some statistics about female education in Southeast Asia. She highlighted the problems and discrimination faced by young girls in Cambodia and Laos. For example in Cambodia, 50...

Colombian Teachers Begin National Strike

  10 September 2013

Teachers from the Colombian Federation of Educators FECODE [es] have started [es] a national strike to demand better health plans, an end to “the policy of privatization” in education, and...

East Timor: “Literacy Often Falls by the Way Side”

  9 September 2013

Marking the International Literacy Day, September 8, The Asia Foundation's blog, In Asia presents striking numbers on the quality of educational outcomes in Timor-Leste, a country where “education, and literacy in particular,...