Recent terrorist attacks are an opportunity to push for crucial curriculum and educational reforms in Egypt and the Muslim world.
What are the people in Egypt forcing themselves to believe in order not to deal with the harsh realities of the past four years – let alone the years before?
Natalya’s youngest son Zhenya will soon be six. He is a child with a difference, and Natalya needs to make a choice about where to send him to school. на русском языке
Ansgar Allen's book traces our obsession with assessment, standards and measurement in modern education. It is both an unsettling history and a provocative call for resistance.
Down in Samara on the Volga river, the city’s higher education institutions are facing cuts and closure. And many people are far from happy.
After the trebling of tuition fees in 2010, student movements suffered a major blow. Now they are rising up again.
The writer reflects on the role of language, foreign and Arabic, colloquial and classical, in Morocco; and on the appropriation, polarisation, and xenophobia of the Egyptian counter-revolution.
Warwick University’s new ‘Teach Higher’ initiative aims to centralise ‘casual’ academic work. This move will only exacerbate the problem of precarious labour in the university.
Universities are increasingly becoming factories, churning out obedient citizens and “human capital.” It's time to fight back.
In 2014, the Russian government launched the ‘Global Education’ programme of postgraduate education abroad. But the reaction in Russia has been obstructive and hostile. На русском языке
Young Syrian refugees have shown extradordinary resilience, but hope for their short and long-term futures hinges on better educational opportunities.
At universities across Britain, business interests are increasingly promoted over the welfare of students.
