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Trojan Horse – conjuring the slave, the witch and the grand inquisitor
Stories of allegations of the Islamification and radicalisation in Muslim-majority schools in Birmingham play on classic Islamophobic tropes. I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean I love the country...
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Tongues untied
Most Roma children in Serbia have no formal education in their own language or culture. Photo by Dobri Dejano/flickr. Sixth-grader Vlada Jovanov wants someday to be a teacher of the Romani language....
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Tajik Gypsy children miss out on education
By IWPR — Institute for War & Peace Reporting Economic and cultural factors result in poor school attendance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0 license.Image by T.Voekler Ahliddin is...
View ArticleShooting the messenger: Jamaica’s Brendan Bain controversy continues
The controversy over Professor Brendan Bain’s court testimony in the Caleb Orozco case (in which the plaintiff was suing the Attorney General of Belize over the unconstitutionality of the...
View ArticleUzbek-language education declines in Tajikistan
By IWPR — Institute for War & Peace Reporting Ethnic Uzbeks living in western Tajikistan say opportunities to be taught in their own language have been dramatically curtailed. Uzbeks are...
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Academies and the neoliberal project: the lessons and costs of the conveyor belt
Having studied one of Britain’s flagship academies it seems that their good results may come at a high social cost – something the media talks far less about.. This image is attributed to Irangilaneh...
View ArticleObstacles in education for Romani and Egyptian children
Wearing old clothes, but still going to school The famous poet, Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj stated, “From cradle to grave, the most beautiful (period) is the school age.” This statement, however, could hardly...
View ArticleLearning Mobility Scoreboard Report: Member States must try harder
A new report by the Eurydice Network, Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for Learning abroad in Europe, highlights unequal opportunities, uneven commitments and a complex range of obstacles to...
View ArticleRussia: Muscovites embrace learning Central Asian languages
Hear a man speaking Tajik on Moscow’s fashionable Krymskaya Embankment, and you could be forgiven for thinking he’s migrant worker on break from one of the many construction sites in the area. But...
View ArticleOur Dream: The Choice
In the town of Kyustendil, in western Bulgaria, 90 km southwest of Sofia, some Roma children are fighting age-old stereotypes by choosing to continue their education beyond the age of 16, as is...
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Honors for an Afghani Migrant II – Education challenges for refugees in Greece
Last year in August we reported on Chalkboard with the article “Honors for an Afghani Migrant – An Afghani asylum seeker excels in Greek national University entry exams”[1], when Thessaloniki Mayor...
View ArticleNorway’s shame: educational discrimination against Iranian students
For several months now there have been disheartening reports from Norway that Iranian students are being denied residence permits and visas due to international sanctions, even though their areas of...
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In Serbia, a textbook case of identity politics
The president’s gift to schoolchildren in a northern city sparks howls of outrage across the border in Croatia. In early September, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic made a magnanimous gesture to a...
View ArticleThe young Roma women who are changing their communities
It isn’t because they don’t have their own televisions. Most of the families have large screens at home, but in this impoverished, isolated and marginalised Roma community, where there is no rubbish...
View ArticleProtesting Students and Teachers in Myanmar Reject Law They Claim Will...
The new National Education Bill of Myanmar, which was passed in late July this year and is currently awaiting the president’s approval, is considered by some students, teachers and civil society...
View ArticleIntegration later
A Hungarian court says a church-run school in a Romani community segregates. Its backers says it offers a head start. Nyiregyhaza, HUNGARY | The Soja Miklos Elementary School sits in the middle of a...
View ArticleWhy was a boy with autism repeatedly denied an inclusive education?
Jan Jakub Hrazdira, or Jeník as he is known by those close to him, is 13 years old. He likes computer games, likes to cook and bake, loves swimming and diving. He has autism and a mild intellectual...
View ArticleThe children of Augusta
Two abandoned schools in a Sicilian port town raise uncomfortable truths around how Europe is treating its ‘native’ and ‘migrant’ children. Augusta is an industrial port on the southern coast of...
View ArticleKuwait sentences 1,000 Bidoon children to illiteracy
While international NGOs are actively trying to save Syrian refugee children from falling behind in school, there is another Arab country that is systematically denying an education to a group of...
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...
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