Stories about Education from May, 2008
Diaspora: Armenian Student Association Remembers Genocide
Unzipped features a guest blogger from the Armenian Student Association in California who reports on how Armenian-American university students remember the Armenian Genocide through art and performance.
India: On teaching
Learning by Living shares her experiences of teaching a class of 20-somethings in India.
Brunei: Medical education
Doctors Mess Club reviews the medical training in Brunei
Malaysia: Different types of lecturers
Kampua Talk describes the different species of lecturers in Malaysian schools
Pakistan: Alternatives to the Madrassa
CHUP! on a newspaper report on the trend of Turkish schools in Pakistan offering an alternative to Madrassa education.
Trinidad & Tobago: Student Action
As tuition fees go up at private tertiary institutions in Trinidad and Tobago, students at one school take action, prompting Ramblings and Reason to comment: “That such a routine exercise of civic responsibility is not the norm is scary. My enduring hope is that our university students will escape this...
Korea: Chinese students fear for safety after torch relay violence
Last week someone left a comment on a GVO post, something to the effect of 'the whole world hates the Chinese people now' and for a lot of people in (and outside) China, it sure is looking difficult to even be Chinese these days.
Taiwan: What can a baseball do?
There are some Taiwanese playing in Major League Baseball: Chin-Feng Chen in Dodgers from 2002-2005, Chin-Lung Hu in Dodgers, Hong-Chih Kuo in Dodgers, Chin-Hui Tsao in Royals, and Chien-Ming Wang in Yankees. Although they are loved by Taiwanese, these baseball stars are not the focus of this article. Here are...
Georgia: Soviet Archives Opened
Social Science in the Caucasus reports on the opening of Communist party archives to researchers in Georgia. The blog says that a working group is even releasing archival bulletins in Georgian and English. It considers the material stored in the archive of extreme interest as well as importance.
Saudi Arabia: Learning and Technology Symposium
Saudi girls share their ideas on a Learning and Technology Symposium, held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on this blog.
China: Chastity Declaration at Nanking University
Li Yinhe criticizes the chastity declaration at Nanking University and suggests to spend resource for proper sex education [zh].
Israel: Cycle of Consumption
Israeli Daniel Lubetzky writes about the cycle of wealth, education and consumption in this post.
Iran:”Victory of students”
Aflatoon-Irani writes [Fa] that director of Sahand University in northern city of Tabriz in Iran, finally accepted the most of students’ requests. The students had gone on hunger strike for several days. One of the requests was the end of “gender apartheid”.
