Voice of America: Striking Zimbabwe Teachers Union Alleges Harassment By State Agents
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe said Friday that its officers and members are facing harassment by state security agents over the strike teachers are currently pursuing in search of a starting salary of Z$1.7 billion (US$280) a month.
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The Chronicle: Riot Police Arrest Protesters Outside Philippine Education Summit
Six people were arrested and at least a dozen were injured last week when riot-police officers broke up a crowd of students who had rallied outside an education conference in Manila to protest skyrocketing college costs in the Philippines, where tuition tripled at public universities last year and shot up even more at private institutions.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Universities in Zimbabwe Are Ordered to Stay Closed Until After March Elections
Public higher-education institutions in Zimbabwe have been ordered to remain closed until after parliamentary and presidential elections in late March, according to a former national student leader and a university official.
President Robert Mugabe, who has ordered elections to be held March 29, is worried that students might hold demonstrations if the results were perceived to be rigged in his favor, said Promise Mkwananzi, a former president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Turkish secularists protest, but “Who’s afraid of a headscarf?”
Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, on the country’s Aegean coast, was a sea of red, red, red this past Sunday as hundreds of thousands of Turks – some estimates put the number at around a million – turned out waving their national flag in an impressive demonstration of support for their society’s secular status.
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Al Jazeera: Turks hold pro-secular protest
More than 200,000 demonstrators have protested against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamic-leaning prime minister, becoming the country’s president.
Protesters in Ankara on Saturday called for the government to resign, chanting slogans including, “We don’t want an imam as president.”
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Turkish Daily News: Untying knots in headscarf debate
Confused by the ‘headscarf debate’ raging in Turkey? For the newly initiated, the Turkish Daily News has prepared a beginners’ manual to help sort out the many complexities animating today’s heated discussions
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Turkish Daily News: Military hints opposition to end the headscarf ban
Turkey’s top general signaled the military’s opposition to lifting the headscarf ban in universities yesterday, a day after the government and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) jointly introduced a bill to Parliament.
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Reuter: Turkish academic convicted of insulting Ataturk
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court imposed a suspended 15 month jail sentence on Monday on a professor for insulting modern Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in a case likely to draw European Union criticism.
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The Chronicle: Turkish Professor Gets Suspended Sentence for Insulting Nation’s Founder
A professor of politics and political theory at a university in Ankara, Turkey, was convicted on Monday of insulting the memory of the founder of the modern Turkish Republic during a public panel discussion, and was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence.
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Financial Times: Turkey set to drop university headscarf ban
Turkey was last night braced for moves to end a controversial ban on women wearing headscarves at universities after the government won the support of a key opposition party for the move, which is likely to enrage the country’s secular establishment.
The governing Justice and Development party (AKP), which has its roots in political Islam, struck a deal with Turkey’s nationalist opposition party to lift the constitutional ban on the headscarf on campus.
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BBC: New move to lift Turkey scarf ban
The governing party in Turkey and a key opposition party have agreed to work together to lift a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities.
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AP: Afghan Journalist Sentenced to Death
An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Students, teachers return to Baghdad campus
During his eight-year endeavor to complete his undergraduate degree, Haider Swadi Kareem has seen more than he’d care to remember at Baghdad University.
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The Chronicle: Amid Violence, Kenyan Universities Postpone Opening
Nairobi — Universities in Kenya have postponed their opening dates for fear that students and academic staff members might be caught up in the violence that has hit the country following opposition leaders’ claims that last week’s presidential election was rigged.
The Nairobi campus of United States International University, Egerton University, Kenyatta University, Moi University, and the University of Nairobi have advised their students not to report to their campuses on Monday, as earlier planned.
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Haaretz: Striking professors slam university heads for going to court
Striking senior university faculty said the decision by the university presidents to seek an injunction from the Labor Court to end their 10-week strike was unprecedented in academia. Some of the lecturers passed resolutions condemning the move; the Technion in Haifa began the process to have its president removed.
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The Boston Globe: Chinese turn to college students to build professional, highly educated army
The fliers circulating last month on the campuses of China’s most prestigious universities showed three soldiers positioned against a Chinese flag and an appeal that read in part: “Carry Your Pen to the Army to Become More Accomplished.”
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The Herald: All change again as Higher English faces review
SCOTLAND’S exam body has ordered a sweeping review of Higher English after warnings over the reliability and content of the qualification, The Herald can reveal.
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Daily News Egypt: Palestinian students allowed into Egypt
More than 250 Palestinian students from the isolated Gaza Strip were allowed into Egypt Sunday after having been prohibited from leaving the territories for months.
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The Guardian: Women miss out on university places
Older women and people from minority ethnic groups are least likely to secure university places, according to research from the University admissions service, Ucas.
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The Guardian: Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration
British universities must stop courting China and start seeing the country as a threat, the former head of Nottingham University’s Chinese campus warned today.
In a report from the higher education thinktank Agora, the founding provost of Nottingham-Ningbo, Prof Ian Gow, claimed China wants to profit from the UK’s strengths in science and technology by absorbing the talent and intellectual property of its partners.
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