Catholics First?
A right-wing fringe blogger ignites debate in Poland over the role of personal religious faith in public education. WARSAW | A religious pilgrimage site doesn’t seem the likeliest place for the start...
View ArticleBosnian court strikes down separate-but-equal schools
The high court of one of Bosnia’s ethnically determined regions has overturned the “two schools under one roof” system that separated Bosniak and Croatian students studying in the same school. Balkan...
View ArticlePakistan warns universities not to question government following model UN...
Uproar over a booth showcasing Israeli culture as part of a university Model United Nations event in Pakistan has prompted the country’s higher education authority to warn universities not to challenge...
View ArticleEven extremists have a right to freedom of speech on campus
There may well be an outcry from student unions and lecturers’ organisations against proposals in a new counter-terrorism bill from home secretary Theresa May for a new statutory duty on universities...
View ArticleThe urgency of reforming madrasa education in Myanmar
The Muslim minority of Myanmar faces exclusion caused by discriminatory policy and a separate school system. A reform of the Islamic schools (madrasas) is urgently needed. Myanmar is a predominately...
View ArticleLessons for Israel on how shared education can bridge divided communities
Israel is a deeply divided society, a fact reinforced by separate schools for Jews, Arabs and Christians. In 1984, the Hand-in-Hand movement began working to build peace via a network of integrated,...
View ArticleTeaching orthodoxy in Russian schools
Orthodox ideology is being rushed into the Russian school curriculum – in the interests of nationalism. It all happened very fast. In the middle of 2009 Dmitry Medvedev, the then president of Russia,...
View ArticleIn Georgia, outcry over desecration of Muslim school
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has condemned the nailing of a pig’s head to the door of a planned Islamic school, Civil.ge reports. In an 11 September statement, Garibashvili slammed the...
View ArticleTajiks flock to Russian-language schools
EurasiaNet.org reports on the rising popularity of Russian-language schools in Tajikistan, where parents are willing to pay thousands of dollars in bribes to enroll their children in the few schools...
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Shaken by court ruling, Romanian church comes roaring back
Religion classes have been a normal part of the Romanian child’s school day since the advent of democracy more than 20 years ago. In a country where more than four in five people follow Orthodoxy,...
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