Stories about Education from October, 2008
Palestine: Fatah and Hamas take their fight into schools
August 24 should have seen the start of classes for pupils in Gaza’s government schools, but instead it was the beginning of a week-long strike called by the Fatah-led teachers’ union protesting the interference of Hamas in education. In this post, one blogger, a school pupil himself, gives us his perspective on the political fight getting in the way of his education.
Jamaica: Poetry Rubric
A rubric for assessing poetry? Jamaican Geoffrey Philp is working out the parameters.
Japan: Part-time University Teachers among Working Poor
At A Prisoner in the Cave, id:eirene describes a documentary on Tokyo Television exploring the situation of working poor among part-time teachers in Japanese universities [ja]. The documentary introduces the lives of two PhD-holding part-time university teaching staff living on a salary of 100,000 yen/month [around 1000 USD], highlighting differences...
Iran: Iran minister admits holding fake degree
According to news sites and Iranian blogs such as Tavazo [fa], after several weeks of protest and investigations, finally Iran's Interior Minister Ali Kordan has admitted to holding a fake Oxford University degree.Read more here.
