Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Education'
Problems of Place: Do Quotas in China’s College Admissions System Reinforce Existing Inequalities?
by Yiqin Fu, Tea Leaf Nation, China/USA - Earlier this month, millions of Chinese students took the exam for which they had been preparing their entire lives – the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, known colloquially as the gaokao. For...
Q&A: ‘Empowering Girls Alone Will Not Bring Social Change’
by Joan Erakit, IPS News, Italy - The Global Education First Initiative stands at the forefront of this week’s Learning Ministerial Meetings in Washington, D.C., underscoring the importance of education in the development of the global economy. Josephine Bourne, UNICEF...
No Cause for Fear
by Bina Shah, The Dawn, Pakistan - Twenty women in leadership roles from various industries — finance, the corporate sector, law, publishing — sat down and talked about how Pakistan can promote women role models who are at the forefront...
Cyberbullying’s Roots are Offline, Not on a Computer Screen
by Alyssa Wiseman and Samantha Levy, The Globe and Mail, Canada - It’s been a horrible few months, with the senseless deaths of teens Amanda Todd and, more recently, of Rehtaeh Parsons. The devastating deaths of these young women, both...
The Power of Talking to Your Baby
By Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times, USA - By the time a poor child is 1 year old, she has most likely already fallen behind middle-class children in her ability to talk, understand and learn. The gap between poor...
Hugo Chavez Depicted as Tyrant for Challenging Western Oil Domination
by Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Canada - Had Hugo Chavez followed the pattern of many Third World leaders and concentrated on siphoning off his nation’s wealth for personal gain, he would have attracted little attention or animosity in the West....
Can Men Be Taught Not to Rape?
by Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon, USA - If you want to know why we need to educate men not to be sexually aggressive, look no further than what happened when Zerlina Maxwell went on television to say that we need...
Liberian Women Battle Against 'Sex for Grades' at Universities
by Liz Ford, The Guardian, UK - Female university students are mobilising to change a culture where academic success is often dependent on sexual favours. A 2011 survey conducted by ActionAid in three Liberian universities found that about 85% of...
A Helpful Education for Life
by Maritza Baltazar, Latinamerica Press, Peru - HISATIMA proposes free schooling from first through sixth grades in a multi-grade classroom to provide an education more relevant for children in the Andean highlands that values local expertise and culture, integrating Western...
German Schools Struggle with Wave of Immigrants
by Katja Irle, Der Spiegel, Germany - Germany is experiencing a well-documented boom in immigrants from countries hard-hit by the euro crisis. Less visible, however, are their children. They rarely have any knowledge of German, and schools are struggling to...
Triage System Helps Colleges Treat Mentally Ill Students
by Jenny Gold, NPR, USA - Over the past decade, colleges and universities across the country have seen an influx of students like Dale with mental health needs. The stigma of mental illness has started to dissipate, and more students...
New Futuro Narrows the Education Gap for Latino Students
by Kathryn Hawkins, The Atlantic, USA - A Chicago startup is partnering with community groups and companies to make college goals more accessible to Latino youths in the United States....
The Challenge of Teaching Empathy to Stop Bullying
by Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail, Canada - Early intervention and repetition, then, are essential. Empathy can be taught, but people under the age of 26 are especially prone to bully because their brains aren’t wired for impulse control, according...
Shhh! Homosexuality Still in the Closet in French Classrooms
by Sophie Pilgrim, The French Observatory, France - Socialist Minister for Women and Government Spokesperson Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said that the homosexuality of gay authors and icons should no longer go ignored, especially when their sexuality played an important part in...
Dismal Numbers
by Bina Shah, Dawn, Pakistan - A lot of attention has been given over the years to the particular risks for girls in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan, but even in the villages of Sindh, conservative attitudes and traditions...
For Minority Students at Elite New York Private Schools, Admittance Doesn't Bring Acceptance
by Jenny Anderson, The New York Times, USA - Three films examine how the efforts by elite New York private schools to attract minority students aren’t always matched by efforts to make their experience one of inclusion....
Malala Yousafzai: The Crime of Wanting an Education
by Khadija Patel, Daily Maverick, USA - A 14-year old Pakistani girl is recovering from a gunshot to the head after Taliban militants attacked the minibus she was travelling in. But this was no random attack. The girl was targeted,...
Syrian Strife Sours Students' Dreams
by Basma Atassi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Sixteen-year-old Yehya from the Syrian city of Homs had a perfect academic record and thought he was only two years away from realising his dream of joining a much-coveted medical course in Damascus....
A Much Needed International Day of the Girl
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - It costs US $292 to rape a child in Ecuador. That is the monthly pension a school director who sexually abused and impregnated a 12-year-old pupil was required to pay....
International Day of the Girl: Why Science & Math Programs Matter
by Camille Crittenden, Huffington Post, USA - In more developed countries with the capacity (or mandate) to provide basic educational equality, girls still lag behind boys, especially in their achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)....
Uruguayan Schools Slowly Say Goodbye to Junk Food
by Inés Acosta, Tierramérica, Uruguay - One quarter of children in Uruguay are overweight or obese. Uruguayan schoolchildren are learning that cookies, candy, potato chips and soft drinks are bad for their health....
Portuguese Women — Poorly Rewarded for Good Education
by Isabel Nery, Visão, Portugal - In a single generation, Portuguese women cleared away obstacles impeding their ability to receive a genuine education. But they must still break through the glass ceiling in the public and private sector workplaces where...
Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot
by Debbie Elliott, NPR, USA - Ole Miss is commemorating the 50th anniversary of integration on campus Monday with a tribute to Meredith and a series of panel discussions. But the man who made that history doesn't like the idea...
It Is Not Enough to "Have" Human Rights
by Shulamith Koenig, Counter Currents, India - All people must learn, know and own human rights as a way of life and join in building a political movement that will curve a new future for humanity....
Why We're Striking in Chicago
by Karen Lewis, Common Dreams, USA - We will walk the picket lines. We will talk to parents. We will talk to clergy. We will talk to the community. We will talk to anyone who will listen—we demand a fair...
Why Scotland's Approach to Publicly Funded Education Works
by Melissa Benn, Guardian, UK - Unlike the 'three initiatives before breakfast' hyperactivity of the Engish regime, Scotland's modest, consensus-seeking approach celebrates education as a public good....
Everything You've Heard about Failing Schools Is Wrong
by Kristina Rizga, Mother Jones, USA - Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" school....
‘Who Gains from Immigrants Being Unable to Speak Swedish?’
by Kajsa Ekis Ekman, The Local, Sweden - How much Swedish does the working class need to be able to speak? Enough to manage a menial job, it would seem. Anything above this – to write, to understand the news,...
School Lunches Fall Victim to Spanish Austerity
by Aude Mazoue, France 24, France - As the economic crisis in Spain deepens, several regions are considering charging students who bring lunch from home up to €3 to use the school cafeteria, the latest in a series of reforms...
Young Ticos Take a Ride on the Bibliobús
by Hannah J. Ryan, Tico Times, Costa Rica - This library on wheels has covered hundreds of miles and visited thousands of school children on weekly trips around Costa Rica....
Don't Like Sports? Three Other Reasons to Be a Fan of Title IX
by Bryce Covert, The Nation, USA - This Saturday marked the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex....
Southern Africa: "Sexually Transmitted Marks" - Who Is to Blame?
by Sheena Magenya, Gender Links, South Africa - The latest "trend" from institutions of higher learning is that students and lecturers are exchanging a lot more than knowledge and information. It is ‘alleged' by some students that lecturers are soliciting...
Firing Day at the Charter School
by Nancy Bloom, CoLab Radio, USA - We are driven like cattle to collect mounds of data, to divvy the data up into tidy and irrelevant skill categories, and finally to create individual action plans to remediate each student’s poor...
The Language Conundrum
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - An indiscriminate and wholesale adoption of English or its pseudo version as the language of education is undermining our education system. The focus is so much on English that knowledge, information and critical thinking...
South Africa: Girls Need More Than ‘Access’ to Education
by Koketso Moeti, Safe World, UK - The consequences of poverty affect women and female children differently from their male counterparts. Their needs are often relinquished in the quest for survival, which in turn limits their chances of lifting themselves...
Jeopardising Childhood Rights - More Needs To Be Done to Celebrate Our Children
by Deika Morrison, Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - It is now May, Child Month, and the National Child Month Committee has told us that we should celebrate children under the theme 'Jamaica 50: Celebrate Our Children'....
Hearts, Minds and Tongues in Cambodia
by Julie Masis, Asia Times, Hong Kong - The United States Embassy in Cambodia is financing the publication of new textbooks for minority Cham Muslims, a public diplomacy initiative that will revive a forgotten traditional writing system and attempt to...
'Struggling Schools Should Merge with the Underpopulated'
by Nadisha Hunter, Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - As more and more basic schools continue to struggle to keep their doors open, at least one stakeholder is making a desperate plea to Government for such institutions to be merged with underpopulated...
It Gets Better: Mormon Edition
by Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches, USA - Please watch. Please share. And welcome to the Mormon twenty-first century....
Can Affirmative Action Work without Richard Descoings in France?
by Laurel Zuckerman, Sorbonne Confidential, France - In Fall 2005, French youths rioted, destroying 200 million euros of schools, gymnasiums, cars and other property. Two people were killed; 2900 rioters were arrested; and martial law was imposed. When the smoke...
Shutting the School Doors on the Muslim Child
by Hem Borker, The Hindu, India - The increasing communalisation of social spaces is limiting the educational choices of Muslim students....
Crisis at Schools Goes Unreported
by Victoria John, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Corporal punishment is rife in Gauteng schools, even though it is unlawful, according to Childline. The children's rights body said more than 300 cases were reported to its Gauteng crisis line...
'I’d Spend Less on Defence and More on Research'
by Sophie Pilgrim, France 24, France - Célia is a 22-year-old biology student at the Sorbonne, Paris. She hopes to work in research once she graduates in 2013. That is, if she manages to find a job and move out...
Universities Are the First Test for Tunisian Secularism
by Omezzine Khelifa, The Daily Star, Lebanon - In Tunisian universities, equality is assured; all students have access to universities regardless of their religion or how they practice it. Currently young women have the right to wear the niqab in...
Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration
by Lily Yeh, Yes!, USA - On the industrial outskirts of Beijing, the transient children of the world’s largest migration taught artist Lily Yeh about finding healing and rootedness in creative power....
Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools
by Katherine Stewart, Religion Dispatches, USA - Church-planting in public schools is just one of the dozens of religiously-driven initiatives made possible largely through judicial activism on the right: a combination of a surge in self-identified Christian law firms, along...
Children Do Matter
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - It is now widely believed that the root of the evils of militancy and extremism in our society lies in the faulty education system of the country. Textbooks preach hatred and religious prejudice against...
Colombian Government Takes Aim at Adult Illiteracy
by Susan Abad, Latin American Press, Peru - On Sept. 22, Cartagena became the first Colombian city to reach a 99% literacy rate before the year 2015, one of the Millennium Development Goals....
Move Over, Google Earth
by Sonika Lamprecht, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - An unmanned helicopter that will enable farmers to monitor their crops, pastures and stock has been developed, and is being tested, by Stellenbosch University's department of electrical and electronic engineering....
The Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Laila Ali, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Much has been written about the role technology played in bringing social and political change across much of the Middle East and North Africa, but less is known about the technological revolution that...
Protect Your Daughters, Iron Their Breasts
by Eva Fernández Ortiz, IPS, Italy - "Please God, make my breasts disappear." Joyce Forghab used to pray the same line every night during the month she was suffering from breast ironing. The shocking practice, carried out by a quarter...
A Prairie Home Education: Alberta Brings Classrooms to the Country
by Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail, Canada - In this patchwork of farms, ranches and small towns, administrators are looking to computers to help them cope with soaring transportation costs, budget crunches and children stuck in transit for up to...
Inequalities in Education
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - When it comes to education, I feel that enough concern has not been expressed. If there is agitation it is by teachers for higher salaries and by parents complaining against the incessant and arbitrary...
The Irvine 11: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
by Nora Barrows Friedman, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The sentencing of the Irvine 11 demonstrates how voicing Palestinian solidarity is becoming more risky for activists....
The Transformed Private Sphere
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - Evert Pakistani child hailing from a family of modest but respectable means knows that he or she must get serious about a career around the age of 11 or 12....
Women Embrace the Strategies for a Corporate Life
by Alina Dizik, Financial Times, UK - With relatively few women in top managerial or C-suite roles, executive education courses are tackling what some academics have described as the women’s leadership labyrinth....
How Private Companies Are Profiting from Texas Public Schools
by Abby Rapoport, Texas Observer, USA - Public education has always offered big contracts to for-profit companies in areas like construction and textbooks. But in the past two decades, an education-reform movement has swept the country, pushing for more standardized...
Oxford on the Polders
by Irene de Pous, De Volkskrant, The Netherlands - Easier and cheaper enrolment plus courses taught in English: for young Brits, studying in the Netherlands is the fashionable new trend for escaping the problems besetting universities back home....
Chile: "We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for Education"
by Pamela Sepúlveda, IPS, Italy - As students and teachers continue their massive protests in the streets of Chile's cities, one of the most extreme methods of demanding higher-quality, free public education is the hunger strike being undertaken by 28...
'Green' Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre
by Clarinha Glock, Tierramérica, Uruguay - Students in primary and secondary schools are leading the way in two educational initiatives aimed to foment environmental citizenship....
New Students Make Traditional Choices
by Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik, Kilden, Norway - A record number of women want to study technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). More men are applying for pre-school teacher training. But most students still make traditional choices....
Rural Bicycle Roll-out on Track in South Africa
by Lisa Steyn, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - You may have heard of a million RDP houses or even a million jobs, but what about a million bicycles?...
The Other Side of the Story on Domestic Abuse
by Barbara Kay, National Post, Canada - In academia, for ideological reasons, there have always been, and continue to be, areas where "the real world" makes an uncomfortable fit with sacred myths based in theory, not evidence. One such theory...
Human Rights Groups Launch Program for Kids in Lebanon
by Marie Dhumières, Daily Star, Lebanon - An educational program aimed at “helping children to peacefully coexist” was launched Thursday by three human rights organizations during a news conference at UNESCO Palace....
Academic Freedom under Attack?
by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972, Israel - It has been a troubled year for Israeli academia. The rising nationalist sentiment in the government, legislature and civil society has spilled over into bitter struggles on campuses throughout the country....
The Rich Buying Places at University? They Already Do
by Laurie Penny, New Statesman, UK - The creation of the funding deficit in British higher education was a calculated decision by this government, as the £4bn saving generated could have been recouped many times over by pursuing corporate tax...
The Education of Jose Pedraza: Why Fixing Schools Isn’t Simple Math
by Julianne Hing, Colorlines, USA - Last year in East LA, Jose Pedraza was struggling mightily in his classes and drifting listlessly through his days. It was worrying enough to his teachers at Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter School,...
European Commission Prods on Roma Strategies
by Michaela Terenzani-Stanková, Slovak Spectator, Slovakia - Without an education, Romani children will not be able to get jobs and will not be able to contribute to the Slovak economy and society....
Why Education Matters for Global Security
by Irina Bokova, NEXT, Nigeria - Contrary to popular belief, classrooms, kids and education systems are not merely “collateral damage” in the case of conflicts. They are more and more deliberately considered as legitimate targets....
Mind Games
by Sandra Steingraber, Orion, USA - How toxic chemicals are impairing children’s ability to learn....
One Billion People Forgotten in Fight Against Poverty
by Annie Kelly, The Guardian, UK - According to Unicef, adolescence is the most dangerous period of many children's lives. This is the time when young people, especially girls, are at the highest risk of dangers such as child marriage,...
Education for Dummies
by Lyuba Yordanova, Sofia Echo, Bulgaria - Bulgaria is among the European countries allocating the least amount, as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP), to education – just more than three per cent, with only Greece ranked lower....
'Non-National' Tells of Struggle to Pay College Fees
by Grainne Cunningham, Irish Independent, Ireland - Her parents are Irish citizens and she has lived here for over 10 years. But Cate Gatharia is deemed to be a "non-national" and therefore is forced to pay crippling college fees....
Year of Chemistry Starts with a Bang in Bern
by Jo Fahy, World Radio Switzerland, Switzerland - How to make chemistry cool for kids, so that some of them decide to make it a career? The International Year of Chemistry aims to promote the science by highlighting the surprises...
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste—Except in Ohio
by Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Truthdig, USA - Apparently, in Ohio, public education is no longer a right—it is now a form of private property that can be stolen....
How the Coalition Let Down My Sister
by Dawn Foster, Green Wedge, UK - A snapshot of what a working class teenager has to look forward to in a ConDem Britain....
Education and Racism: Defending Brazil’s Candace Girl
by Andréia Lisboa de Sousa, Pambazuka, Kenya - While edicts around the need for non-discrimination and racial equality within Brazil’s education system have changed, the attitudes of figures in positions of educational authority have not....
In Congo, Helping the Environment While Healing a War-Scarred Land
by Carol Mann, Khaleej Times, Pakistan - In the city once known as Stanleyville, the theater of some of the bloodiest African wars in recent times, educators are hoping that a new university initiative will help heal the country as...
Schoolgirls v. the State
by Arife Kazimova & Nushabe Fatullayeva, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Azerbaijan says girls can't wear the hijab to school. So many girls are staying home. Will secular Baku lose its battle with the growing ranks of religious Muslims?...
Whatever Happened to the Pan-African University?
by Yojana Sharma, SciDev Net, UK - The Pan-African University is expected to offer advanced graduate training and postgraduate research opportunities for "the cream of the crop" of African students....
Student Protests under the Magnifying Glass
by Fatma Disli Zibak, Today's Zaman, Turkey - “Most of those demanding tolerance of youths say, ‘Don’t worry about them,’ ‘Ignore them’ and ‘Don’t exaggerate their reaction.’ Excuse me, but does being a young person necessarily mean being stupid?”...
For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity”
by Julianne Hing, Color Lines, USA - The arc of the for-profit schools industry, and the disproportionate impact its had on the poor and people of color, mirrors another financial debacle that the country should be in no rush to...
Student Protest: We Are All in This Together
by Nina Power, Guardian, UK - Tt is a genuine expression of frustration against the few who seem determined to make the future a miserable, small-minded and debt-filled place for the many....
In Iran, Renewed Efforts To Keep University Students In Check
by Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - "The university has demonstrated that it will not be silenced. For 30 years it has come under all kind of repression, yet there's a sentence that all say: 'The university is...
Toilets are Key to Good Education
by Emma Batha, AlertNet, UK - As millions of children around the world start school this month, many are discovering something critical is missing. It's not teachers or textbooks - it's toilets. Poor sanitation doesn't just cause high rates of...
The Ten-Year-Old Teacher of Untouchables
by Rajni George, National, United Arab Emirates - As an orphan and an ‘untouchable’, young Bharti Kumari seems the unlikeliest of schoolmistresses. But the stoic Indian village girl with an old soul has grasped new opportunities and is a charming...
Sweden Ends the Use of Preferential Treatment
by Marte Ericsson Ryste, Gender Balance in Research, Norway - We must ask ourselves whether an even gender balance should always be a goal in itself. For some study programmes, such as early childhood education and psychology, it might be...
'This Is My Country'
by Nurit Wurgaft, Haaretz, Israel - As the school year begins, children of foreign workers express their own views - often colored by anxiety - about the success of recent demonstrations against their expulsion....
New School Year Brings Anxiety In South Kyrgyzstan
by Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - With wounds still raw from ethnic violence in June that killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands, whole families' emotions are running high....
Girls Only or Coed?
by Nicole Pope, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Should Turkey consider opening girls-only schools?...
Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence?
by Katherine Gustafson, Yes!, USA - The Secretary of Education isn’t the only one who thinks so. Behind the growing movement for social and emotional learning....
Child’s Play: An Arab-Jewish School in Israel
by Alana Sobelman, Jerusalem Post, Israel - How a bilingual Arab-Jewish school in Beersheba stands the southern heat. What the majority of Israel’s population on both sides may call blind ideology in the face of past and present conflicts,...
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Peer Education
by Tsvetomira Georgieva, FOCUS, Bulgaria - Kovachevtsi’ National children’s ecological complex, municipality of Radomir, organizes a summer school on HIV/AIDS prevention for a seventh year in a row. The initiative is organized by the Ministry of Health and the HIV/AIDS...
India's Super Rich Educators
by Shailaja Neelakantan, GlobalPost, USA - Rajendra Pawar said he and Vijay Thadani started NIIT University after it became clear to them that the Indian government does not have enough money to take on the myriad challenges facing the country's...
South Africa: Renewing the Promise of Education for All
by Laure Pichegru, IPS, Italy - The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school....
The Female Saudi Graduates: Smart but Jobless
by Caryle Murphy, National, UAE - Although Saudi laws and regulations based on the Sharia guarantee a woman’s right to work, they stipulate that she should work in an appropriate environment – that is, not mixing with men or being...
A Thought for Our Children
by Ayo Oyoze Baje, Daily Independent, Nigeria - Now is the time to invest heavily in infrastructure to assist parents to have means of livelihood to cater for their children....
France Brings in Film School for les enfants
by Geneviève Roberts, The Independent, UK - Watching classics like 'Citizen Kane' will help pupils understand real-life power struggles....
Awakening the Senses: Bringing Problem Children Back into the Mainstream
by Tahira Yaqoob, National, United Arab Emirates - A Dubai institute has grown into a haven for children with learning difficulties, offering diagnosis and treatment that can allow them to re-enter mainstream education....
NGOs: Roma Are Worse Off
by Michaela Stanková, Slovak Spectator, Slovakia - Only 3 percent of Roma students graduate from a secondary school and Roma students account for 60 percent of those attending special schools for mentally-disabled children....
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