Stories about Education from September, 2024
Japan-born Nepali children struggle to ‘be Nepali’
Japan has become a key destination for Nepali migrant families, but their children must adapt to Japanese education, facing difficulties transitioning back to Nepalese education upon returning home.
A global experience in a translation classroom: Interview with Dr. Ya-mei Chen
For about two decades, Global Voices's Lingua program has seen many partners and collaborators. Among them, there's one educator who incorporates Lingua and its translation work into her teaching method.
A Japanese schoolboy was killed in China, raising concerns about increasing xenophobia
As anti-Japanese sentiment spreads in China, the second hate-crime in two months is raising questions about the country’s nationalistic education and how it is spreading xenophobia.
Why aren't Caribbean artists better funded?
A series of recent, sizeable grants from a US-based arts and humanities foundation has regional artists hoping that this endorsement will inspire regional financial investors to follow suit.
Shaping Nepal's reading culture: An interview with Saguna Shah, founder of bOOkahOlics
Global Voices interviewed Saguna Shah, founder of bOOkahOlics, Nepal’s largest online book club, to explore her impact on transforming Nepal’s reading culture and connecting Nepali readers.
Georgian lawmakers inch closer to final approval of anti-LGBTQ+ law
Critics have pointed out that laws like the one adopted by Russia in 2013 to “protect children from information advocating a denial of traditional family values” have also increased hate crimes.
Roy Cape, whose music provided the beat of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, dies leaving a precious legacy
While some described Cape as “the Duke Ellington of calypso,” he had his own signature style and was always completely himself, leaving a unique stamp on the region's musical identity.
Precision agriculture: A passion for Togolese PhD student Aicha Biaou
Aicha Biaou is a young Togolese PhD candidate in Precision Agriculture at Oklahoma State University specializing in soil and water resource management to revolutionize agriculture.
Mongolia’s new minister is determined to reform its education sector
Since becoming a minister in July, he has already introduced dozens of changes covering everything from pre-school to higher education.
New Russian-style law censors mentioning LGBTQ+ in the Bulgarian school system
Recent legislative changes forbidding “propaganda, promotion, or incitement” of LGBTQ+ “ideas and views” in Bulgarian school system mirror similar legislation passed in Russia and Hungary, civil society activists warned.
