· April, 2010

Stories about Education from April, 2010

Japan: Call us social beings now!

April 1st marks a new academic year for students and the first day of work for the young, new employees. To distinguish them from the students, who don’t pay taxes and have no civic responsibilities, those who work and contribute with their job to ‘society’ are referred to as ‘social people’ - shakaijin in Japanese.

8 April 2010

India: Efficacy Of The Right To Education Bill

Sandeep Bansal at Looking Beyond The Obvious blog comments on the efficacy of the newly introduced right to education bill in India: “mere passing of the Right to Schools (Education)...

7 April 2010

Egypt: Linux InstallFest a Success!

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is picking up in Egypt, thanks to awareness programmes being organsied by Egyptian Linux Users Group. Tarek Amr sums up reactions to a recent event in this post.

6 April 2010

Zambia: Failed education policy

The ruling party in Zambia has failed to deliver on education: “ince the MMD came to power, we have seen tens of thousands of Grade 7 and Grade 9 students...

5 April 2010

Bhutan: Education Is A Struggle

“Education is free in Bhutan but individual struggle for education is costly”, comments Tomlax at Kuzu-Bhutan Weblog while describing his 15 year long struggle to get graduated.

5 April 2010

Bhutan: Teachers Abusing Students

Journalist and blogger Dipika at On The Job writes about corporal punishments practiced by teachers in Bhutan and the embarrassment the students receive publicly causing them emotional trauma.

2 April 2010

Taiwan: “Slideophilia”

Professor Chih-Hao Tsai talks about the weird but common phenomena he observed in Taiwan:”Slideophilia“. He concludes that not only the design of a speech rooms, the video-cam that is always focusing on the slides,...

1 April 2010