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Hundreds demonstrate outside Taiwan's education ministry after student's suicide

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Taipei early on Friday calling for the education minister to resign after a student committed suicide, amid a deepening row over the island’s “mainland China-centric” school curriculum. Several hundred people, some holding white roses and candles, congregated outside the education ministry at midnight to bid farewell to 20-year-old Lin Kuan-hua,… Read More »

Review – 'Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason'

The face of modern education?. Flickr/Richard Lee. Some rights reserved. Ansgar Allen (2014) Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason, Basingstoke; Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781137272850. £65.00. Too many sociological and education studies are published nowadays. The pressure to publish has outrun the need to have something different to say. Wheels are constantly… Read More »

The $1-a-week school

ACROSS the highway from the lawns of Nairobi’s Muthaiga Country Club is Mathare, a slum that stretches as far as the eye can see. Although Mathare has virtually no services like paved streets or sanitation, it has a sizeable and growing number of classrooms. Not because of the state—the slum’s half-million people have just four… Read More »

Taiwan students storm education ministry compound in textbook protest

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hundreds of Taiwan students stormed the ministry of education compound early on Friday, after one committed suicide earlier in the week, intensifying anti-China protests over textbooks they say are aimed at promoting Beijing’s “one China” policy. About 700 students climbed barricades around the ministry and as of Friday morning about 200 students… Read More »

Free education: Capitation grant is failing – Report

About 85% of all households who have children in public pre-schools still pay some form of levies and charges. This is according to the 2014 Citizens’ Assessment Survey on the capitation grant scheme. This is regardless of the introduction of capitation grants to eliminate these charges and levies. Under the scheme, public basic schools in Ghana… Read More »

VC Tours Climate Change Centre and PhD Building Sites

Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aryeetey being shown the Climate Change building plan The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has visited the construction sites for the Climate Change Centre and a PhD building to check on progress of the two building projects. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of Research, Innovation and Development, Prof. John Owusu Gyapong and the Director of… Read More »