Stories about Education from June, 2007
Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome
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Malaysia: Religious Scholars in Tourism Industry
A Malaysian minister is proposing that Malaysian students attending religious schools in Egypt master Arabic language. The minister hopes that they will be able to serve the tourism industry in...
China: Teacher Abuse Gate Scandal
ESWN translated an indepth report from Southern Weekend on the teacher abuse youtube video scandal at Haidian district Art Vocational School.
Thailand: Wai Khru Ceremony
Richard Barrow at Thai-Blogs.com has pictures from the Thai Wai Khru Ceremony. I think one of the highlights for us during the first semester in schools in Thailand is the...
Egypt: Deserted Cairo Streets
“Friday usually the streets are crowded but today there wasn't any crowded streets ,a strange thing for sure ,it only happens in Eid or in Ramadan before the breakfast by...
Israel: Anticipating End of Term
Israeli blogger Yael is waiting for good news. “Someone please tell me that the end of the semester is in sight. I need assurances that the nightmare will end. There...
Iran: Second Cultural Revolution Coming?
Universities in different parts of Iran are experiencing a new wave of repression by security forces. Between 6-8 student activists, members of student associations, and independent professors who dare to...
Sri Lanka: Prof VK Samaranayake
Open Maze and other blogs on the death of Prof. V.K. Samaranayake. “This is shocking news; he was the founder of the BIT (Bachelor of Information Technology- External) program at...
Bangladesh: McKaaba?
a bengali in TO is provoked by the news of a kid who interprets the influence of corporate giants on religion. “It was a near riot. Shouting, gesturing, threatening the...
Iran:Students support jailed workers
According to[Fa] Kaargar blog,some students in Amir Kabir University started to collect money for 3 jailed workers.Students are going to ask money one by one because security forces do not...
Hong Kong: Art Painting Removed in University
This is probably the reason why Hong Kong can never be successful in creativity. Byran blogs an incident that a painting by one of the Master of Fine Art (MFA)...
China: Exam and Social Mobility
Today is the college entrance exam day in China. Granite Studio has a post discussing about exams and social mobility in Chinese history.
Poland: “More Pope, Less Literature”
“More Pope, less literature…” This, according to the beatroot, is what Polish kids would be reading if Poland's education minister prevails.
Fiji: Academics ask the Military to Stop Bullying the Students
The intelligentsia blog posts a letter written by two lecturers from the University of the South Pacific. The letter, addressed to the military authorities, is asking them to stop intimidating...
Cuba: Disappointed in “Today”
Both Babalu Blog and Uncommon Sense are disappointed in The Today Show‘s coverage from Cuba: “For decades, the tendency by many in American media, academia and government has been to...
Trinidad & Tobago: Religion & Education?
“The school classroom is not the place for religious instruction: that belongs in the mosque, the temple, the church. In a multicultural society like T&T, children of different faiths and...
Iraqi Graduation
“You must look at this video on the NY Times website showing young Iraqis at graduation. This story is a tragedy. And it reminds us that human beings survive and...
Israel: Food for Thought and Thoughts of Food
Food, whether it be descriptions of a favourite nosh (snack) or something you'd really prefer to never pass by your palette again, places to consume or acquire particular food items, preparations of said items, and what was occurring while food was being eaten, prepared, or just thought about provide frequent food for blogging content within the Israeli blogosphere, writes Yaeli.
China: the Death of a Domesticated Panda
A domesticated panda was beaten to death by a wild panda upon returning to the wildlife. Bull felt that people were like the poor panda, having domesticated by education, authority,...
Touring Libyan Blogs: The Bloggers who have Gone AWOL
While exams continue to disrupt a little the Libyan blogosphere both locally and overseas this week's post is dedicated to those Libyan bloggers who are 'absent without leave', we don't know why they stopped blogging and we miss them very much. I'm sure most Libyan bloggers would join their voices to mine and ask them to come back or at least update us, writes Fozia Mohamed.
Bahamas: Single Parent Homes
“No one can blame our country's failing grade in education solely on the single parent issue but it is certainly a contributing factor in addition to the societal problems that...