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The Economics of Education

Wednesday, April 17 2013 / The Oxonian Globalist United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland / No comments

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 [...]

Suitcase without a handle

Wednesday, April 10 2013 / Oleg Shynkarenko Ukraine / No comments

Sasha and I were colleagues in university. He was a mediocre student. After graduation I didn't manage to find any work paying more than 30 euro a month. So I [...]

Tropical Warmth Greets Migrants in Ghana

Wednesday, April 10 2013 / Fui Ghana / No comments

Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away. Successful economies worldwide lure young job-seekers, while many social and economic factors keep (or drive) others home. [...]

Scarred for Life

Wednesday, April 3 2013 / thesydneyglobalist Australia / No comments

In 2011, a Thomson Reuters Foundation global poll revealed that India is the fourth most dangerous place in the world for women. Although India is emerging from the ‘third world’ [...]

The Western Balkans: A social contract in transition

Wednesday, April 3 2013 / Bojana Ruzic / No comments

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 [...]

Breastfeeding vs. Breadwinning

Sunday, March 31 2013 / Corina Murafa Romania / No comments

Decades into the fight for equality in the workplace, policies for women keep failing. A drawing released this year by the European Parliament shows a bleak picture of so-called equality: [...]