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Culture
General Education System of Georgia: A Path towards More Westernization?
Georgian education system is represented first of all by general education stages overall with 12 years of study – starting from the age of 6, when the majority of children enter an elementary school (primary, – carried out during 6 years, implemented in I-VI grades; basic, – conducted for 3…
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Education
Education in the Philippines: Reaching one’s dreams
The Philippine educational system is patterned after the American school system. This is no surprise since it was the Americans who established the public school system during the American colonial times here between 1896 to 1946. Three levels describe our educational system – the primary, secondary and tertiary…
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East Asia
Education in India
For millennia, ancient India was one of the foremost seats of learning in the world with famous universities like Taxila, Nalanda and Vikramshila, visited by scholars and monks from China, Tibet, Korea, among others. For example, the 7th century Chinese Buddhist monk, Hiuen Tsang, spent 15 months studying and learning…
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East Asia
Education System of Uzbekistan
Since 1991, from the first year of Independence, youth policy in general, and development of education system in particular has been of high importance of the state policy of Uzbekistan. Till 2018, secondary education system of Uzbekistan was divided into two stages. The first stage includes nine years…
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Central Asia
Kyrgyz Educational System
Since gaining independence in 1991, the Kyrgyz Republic has been gradually changing its former Soviet-style educational system, with the authorities paying great attention to improving its effectiveness. They keep an open mind to implementing new and successful approaches of educational systems in other countries, both in primary and secondary schools,…
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East Asia
Students speaking out against sexual harassment from teachers
The #Metoo movement that has been sweeping Korea since January is starting to spread to schools. A girls’ high school in Gwangju is undergoing a police investigation for sexual harassment by teachers. The investigation was launched after the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education last week found that 180 out of…
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West Asia
Non-Muslim American oppose Islamophobia by wearing hijabs
Chicago’s Vernon Hills High School held a “Walk a Mile in Her Hijab Day” last week as non-Muslim female students were encouraged to wear the hijab, the Islamic head scarf. The event was sponsored by the school’s 10-member Muslim Student Association. Meanwhile, Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins announced on her Facebook…
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