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It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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Finland’s education system, which has emerged from a radical overhaul initiated over 40 years ago, is a source of fascination for many countries. Although Singapore students match the [...]
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9/11 not only changed American discourse on security but also modified the US- Mexican relations and with it its promises of a fair accomplishment of the North Atlantic [...]
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Here in the Middle East, people always point to the United States whenever they have any kind of problem. They either blame the U.S. for intervening in [...]
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Abstract: While the delapidated economies of the so called "first world" strongly beat the European and North American youth, Brazil, by means of an historical inversion, moves forward with safe steps [...]
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On the cusp of Vientiane’s entry into the WTO, a third of its population continues to live below the global poverty line of US$1.25 a day. The author Johannes Loh [...]
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On 9th October Uganda marked 50 years of independence with pomp, colour, showcasing the country air power and a [...]
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The lives and practices of professional female fighters in the Andes “Bizarre”, “ridiculous”, even “shameful”: these are words that Bolivians repeatedly associate with these women. Yet the lucha libre – [...]
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This summer I was on a flight from Australia to Japan. I took my shoes off at security, just like I always do. But this time, my gesture drew little [...]
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“De Panzazo”, a 2012 documentary directed by journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, exposes Mexico’s failures in education throughout the last century. [...]
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When it comes to big planet-scale environmental issues like climate change, some people dismiss individual actions like driving less or eating less meat. They say that our actions [...]
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Recent developments in Romania have raised a lot of questions about the future of the country’s democracy. Similar questions were raised about Hungary in past months, and for similar reasons. [...]
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A newspaper was confiscated, its chief editor on trial at the moment, another TV channel suspended, two other media outlets being judicially pursued for “defaming the president”, and regular columnists [...]
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In May 2012, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced their joint partnership in a venture that aims to provide free online education to everyone. Both universities have each [...]
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It seems that it just takes a couple of brave students plus one collective vision in order to awaken a society’s hunger for democracy. In the final months leading up [...]
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A quick glance over a few recent government-issued stats, and one could perhaps be excused at this point for opining that this article is out of touch; that it isn’t [...]
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In Brisbane, one group is taking active steps to make things more ‘amicable’ between the diverse groups in this fine city. Not for research, not for [...]
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What do Indian air hostesses, James Bond dressed in drag and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have in common? Before you get carried away, I’ll tell you: International [...]
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No matter how much it develops, improves, grows or changes, whenever people, including myself, write about the city of Medellin, Colombia, we inevitably fall back to comparing it to how it used to be, [...]
