Stories about Education from September, 2008
Iran:Small School & Successful Blog
Homeyra, an Iranian blogger, writes how a teacher in a small village in Iran shared his experience in his blog and attract attention and support.
Iran:Persian Translation of Iranian Blog Study Now Available
Berkman Center for Internet and Society in Harvard has made its study about Iranian blogosphere available in Persian. You can now read “Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture in...
Madagascar: Living abroad changes a man
In an article published in March, economists William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko noted that in Sub-Saharan Africa, remittances (money sent by immigrants abroad back to their home countries) on average...
Bahrain: Lost in translation
Coolred, an American living in Bahrain, reflects on the difficulty of not knowing the language her children are being educated in: “As she quickly dug a book from her bag...
Sympathy and Support for Qatari student killed in the UK
A 16-year-old Qatari student visiting Britain died as a result of head injuries sustained when he was attacked by local youth. Mohamed Al-Majed was in Hastings, East Sussex, attending an English language course. The circumstances of the death are still under investigation but the police “are treating his death as a murder inquiry, and are investigating it as racially motivated at this time.” Reactions out of Qatar have been strong.
Saudi Arabia: Human rights on the syllabus
Crossroads Arabia comments on a report that Saudi Arabia may introduce human rights on the syllabus for law students: “As well as teaching what are deemed to be the ‘Universal...
Brunei: Playcenter for the elderly
Jack from Brunei proposes the establishment of a kindergarden or a playcenter for the elderly.
Indonesia: Budget for education
Cafe Salemba advises the Indonesian government to review the high funding for education, arguing that the “budget for education should be a result of a careful policy calculation, and a...
Bahrain: Gratitude to a teacher
In Bahrain, a blogger who calls herself Dedicated To Him pays tribute to her teacher: ‘It’s rare when an English teacher…becomes you becomes your friend, your mother, & your sister…...
Palestine: The Excellence of Iranian Universities
Palestinian Random Consistent Ideas links to an article on the excellence of Iranian universities. “The question that begs itself is: how can they do it? The article's explanation is rather...
Palestine: No Student Associations
Rebellious Arab Girl explains her dislike for student associations in a humorous account of her involvement in an Arab student group.
Trinidad & Tobago: Back to School
Trinidadian blogger Coffeewallah has the back-to-school blues.
Russia: Re-Writing History, Again
De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about yet another attempt to re-write Russian history.
Afghanistan: Taliban Sets Schoolbooks on Fire
Azar Balkhi reports that the Taliban militias attacked a convoy of stationary and burned over 80,000 textbooks, which were to be delivered to the secondary schools of the northern Afghanistan.
Uruguay: Schools in OLPC Project
Escuelas Uruguayas [es] is a photoblog maintained by a member of the Ceibal Project, who is responsible for installing the internet connection for the schools taking part in the One...
Iraq: They call this freedom
It can be hard to believe that it is approaching 2000 days since the beginning of the occupation of Iraq. After all the promises and expectations made at the start of the war maybe it is worth taking stock of the current situation for Iraqis. Bloggers have been reviewing their lot and give some slices of their daily experiences.
