· March, 2007

Stories about Education from March, 2007

Mexico: Private Schooling

  8 March 2007

Mark in Mexico, who spent the past two weeks in “one of the oldest and best established private schools in Oaxaca City,” hints at his upcoming series on private education in Oaxaca.

Myanmar: Blogging the Job

  8 March 2007

Mayvelous, the Burmese blogger in Fiji gets a new training assignment and she is blogging her training notes “So here I am, sharing my notes. You have a choice to read or ditch them, it’s entirely up to you. I’m still learning and those technologies are very new for me,...

Russia: “Hell's Coat Check”

Hell is… To Darkness At Noon, it's “the intersection of bureaucracy and academia that is the Russian university”: “Today I had to enter the fifth circle (reserved for the wrathful and slothful) for a meeting. As hell has not yet frozen over, it is still necessary to check one's coat...

Russia: “Torture by Visa”

Darkness at Noon shares several near-horror stories on getting and maintaining a Russian visa: over the years, the purely bureaucratic beast tormenting the blogger has metamorphosed into “the academo-bureacratic beast.”

China: please forget Lei Feng

  6 March 2007

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI points to survey about Chinese school-children's knowledge of Lei Feng; and translates Chi Li's article arguing that: If you truly want to do good works, please “forget Lei Feng”

Yemen: Teachers Stage Sit-in

Yemeni blogger Said Jane reported that teachers in Makalla staged a peaceful sit-in. “It's amazing how brave and determined some people are in the peaceful fight for their legitimate rights. They are modern day heroes and give hope to the world,” writes the blogger.

China: criticizing big universities

  5 March 2007

Kaide responds (zh) to the recent critique made by a national people congress representative Hung Ke Shu's critical remarks towards 4 major universities and said that the ultimate problem might lie on the education department.

Sierra Leone: Think Build Change Salone Initiative

  5 March 2007

Sweet Sierra Leone writes about The Think Build Change Salone Initiative in Sierra Leone, “The Think Build Change Salone Initiative came out of an assessment of the 177 registered NGOs in Sierra Leone. Though there are several organizations that focus on youth and vocational training, there are no organizations that...

Cambodia: Lecturer Jailed

  4 March 2007

Vutha writes about a lecturer in Cambodia who was sentenced to two years in prison for teaching anti-government material from a textbook that he himself wrote and published.

Thaland: Crackdown on Sexy Uniform

  3 March 2007

Steve Suphan translates a Thai newspaper story that talks about Thailand's culture minister offended by “small group of Rajaphat University students clad in sexy short skirts and tight top shirts, smoking cigarettes and chatting to black male tourists at Wat Pho”.

Pakistan: On Jinnah

  3 March 2007

chapati mystery on the perception of Jinnah in the academic and state circles through the years. “Since The General’s ascension, the “Heroes of Pakistan” focus has shifted towards the more brazenly militant ones and the earlier generation’s focus on Jinnah and Iqbal has softened considerably. Just recently, the religious party...

Bangladesh: Islamic Student Movement

  3 March 2007

Unheard Voices links to an article on Hizbut Tahir, which it brands as the Islamic Student Movement in Bangladesh, provoking an interesting discussion in the comments space. “Also, we can complain as much as we want about brainwahing, but there is a qualitative difference between the stereotypical youth fundy of...

Bilingual Education in Guatemala

  2 March 2007

[Editor's note: The following post was originally written by blogger and journalist Juan Manuel Castillo and posted at La Nana. It was translated to English by Guatemalan contributor Renata Ávila.] Tz´ikin Jaay in Spanish means Santiaguito, or “Little Santiago.” It is the name of a school in Santiago Atitlán in...