Stories about Education from January, 2008
Philippines: Korean English Teacher Visa Policy
Diplomats from Singapore, Philippines and some other Asian countries are critical of South Korea's new Visa Policy that bars Asians from Teaching English.
South East Asia: Best Universities
ASEAN- Asia's perfect 10 introduces the best places to study in South East Asia.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Barbados: Elections
Abeni, blogging from St. Vincent & the Grenadines, weighs in on the recently-held Barbados election.
China: A melee in and out of the college
A physical brawl between a college profeesor and his girl student in class incurred unusually opposite voices. The situation was even more complicated due to the resignation of another professor and was ending in a political debate between the liberal and the left wing.
Ukraine: Crimean Politicians
Orange Ukraine writes on how Crimean politicians “are asking for testing of Ukrainian language to be conducted in Russian” – or else they wouldn't let the country's PM enter the peninsula.
Russia, UK: View From BC's Former Employee
Interesting insight into the British Council scandal from Dmitri Minaev of De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis – in this post's comments section at Siberian Light: “These attacks never really stopped, but the British embassy managed to keep the offices running till in 2007 Russia finally demanded that some offices be...
Russia, U.K.: More on the British Council
Ongoing coverage of the British Council row – at A Step At A Time: “An interesting feature of the present crisis, which was obviously prepared in advance by the Russian authorities, is the flooding of British media comments boards (the Mail and Telegraph are the two leading examples at present)...
China: Contradictory Statistic
In a Shanghai survey 76% of the primary and secondary school students said that they had never been to the Arts Museum while 84% said that they like the Arts Museum. Zhang-qing wonders how the two figures can co-exist (zh).
Iran: A leftist student released,more got arrested
Azady-Brabary blog informs [Fa]that Arash Pakzad, a leftist student,was recently released after being in prison for 45 days.The blog adds that more leftist students were arrested this week.
Jamaica: Crime Analysis
“Just in case any Jamaican is scratching their head wondering where much of our crime comes from, it's not only from a poor economy and significant disparity”: Francis Wade explains…
Tajikistan: Freezing Schools
Vadim reports that because of the cold classes in secondary schools were cancelled by teachers, but not by the Ministry of Education. At the same time, he opines that teachers should keep on working, as not going to school will not save students from getting cold-related diseases because most of...
Russia, UK: British Council
Robert Amsterdam writes on the UK-Russia conflict over the British Council.
Poland: Public Health Underfunded
Our Man in Gdansk writes about the lack of state funding for such crucial areas as health care and education in Poland.
Jamaica, Haiti: Every Life Counts
“We must refuse to accept any idea that does not hold every human life as priceless. Every life counts”: Jamaican Geoffrey Philp draws on an experience he shared with Haitian writer Félix Morisseau-Leroy to emphasize the dangers of becoming immune to disturbing news.
Russia: Extremism Charges Against “Voice of Beslan”
Robert Amsterdam and Siberian Light report on the plight of Voice of Beslan, a group of Beslan survivors and their relatives, who are now being accused of breaking the law on extremism.
China: University School Fee
Some scholars suggested that China should raise university school fee as the poor only constitutes 10% of the university population, government subsidy is sponsoring the rich. Wei Yinjie from my1510 points out that at present the wealth redistribution mechanism is not functioning and the income disparity political, not caused by...
China: Discrimination Against Illegitimate Child
A 17 years old girl, Ling Ling, committed suicide because she didn't have a proper household registration (her mother was not married when giving birth) and could not apply for university. Liu Xiaoming criticizes the Beijing family planning committee regulation for discrimination against illegitimate child (zh).
Kazakhstan: Pranks and Politics
The row of dayoffs in Kazakhstan brought a dead season for news and blogosphere, following the 2005 law on national holidays, which made both Qurban Eid and Christian Orthodox Christmas non-working days along with the New Year celebrations. However, some developments were discussed by the bloggers, who have noticed some...
Iran:Free Ali Kalai,jailed student
Several bloggers ask freedom for Ali Kalai[Fa],blogger and Azad University student.He was arrested with several other leftist students about 40 days ago.
Malaysia : Environment Conscious University
Education Malaysia hails the decision of a Malaysian University to go green with its food containers.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: On Strike
Abeni blogs about the teachers’ strike in St. Vincent.
