· August, 2006

Stories about Education from August, 2006

ArubaGirl: Brain drain

ArubaGirl muses on the annual of exodus of students who leave Aruba to further their studies in the Netherlands and elsewhere: “I do wonder, however, how many of ‘Aruba’s future’...

17 August 2006

Argentina: School Blogging

Mariano Amartino introduces (ES) the new blog “Escuela Nº 22 D.E.3 (ES): “The ‘official’ blog of a capital city school … Claudia Samat and Alejandra Dodero, instructors at the school,...

15 August 2006

China: PKU's fake sea turtles

DANWEI sums up the issue of Peking University's attempt to fake the number of sea turtles (Chinese overseas scholar returing back to China) teaching in the University but in fact...

15 August 2006

Iran: USA deported Iranian Scientists

We read in Nikahang's blog that US deported visa-holding Iranian scientists on arrival. The blogger says US government funded Iran human rights documentation center can investigate this event [Fa].

12 August 2006

China: english teacher

Imagethief responses to the recent article from AP about English teacher in China: “It has always seemed to me that teaching in English was the job of last resort for...

9 August 2006

Bhutan: testing English language skills

South Asia Biz reports that a Bhutanese IT company failed to recruit required 80 people because only 39 out of almost 500 applied could pass the recruitment test. The test was mainly concentrated on English language skills. The firm dismissed the candidates' accusation that the test was tough quoting the need of world class standard employees to get a 'medical transcription' outsourcing contract.

4 August 2006

India: Blogcamp 2006

Sumankumar's Yak Pad announces that Blogcamp 2006, India's biggest and most comprehensive blog event is going to be held in 9th and 10th September 2006 in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

4 August 2006

Singapore: Librarians and Wikipedia

Rambling Librarian in Singapore discusses the use of Wikipedia as a resource by librarians. “Some librarians feel that a resource like Wikipedia should not be cited as part of an...

3 August 2006

China: Two tales of a boy's death

On July 16, well-known and outspoken political commentary writer Liao Zusheng's (廖祖笙) son Liao Mengjun (廖梦君) is surreptitiously called from summer vacation back to his school to pick up his...

3 August 2006

Pakistan: Textbook change

Metroblogging Lahore reports that father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's messages to the nation have been replaced by messages from current President Pervez Musharraf and Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in almost all the latest editions of books approved and published by the Punjab Textbook Board. The Board chairman said the exclusion of Jinnah's messages was a human error and would be rectified soon.

2 August 2006