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Education
Chile: Police Reportedly Use Rubber Bullets in Student Protest
Submitted by New Media Rights on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:33By Silvia Viñas
Natalia Muñoz reports [es] that during a peaceful student protest in the University of Chile, police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets. Students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism have been on strike since last Thursday, protesting against “the privatization agenda of the Ministry of Education.”
China: A Lesson in Dishonesty
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 23:32By Oiwan Lam
PH translated a tweet about a class headmaster's tactics in identifying the source of dissenting opinions in the classroom.
Russia: Beslan 6 Years On
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:25Marina Litvinovich (LJ user abstract2001) reports (RUS) from Beslan on the sixth anniversary of the 2004 school hostage crisis, posting photos of the school building back in 2004 and now, and of the commemoration held there in the evening of Sept. 1. “The town is also empty,” she writes. “School year doesn't start until Sept. 6.”
Serbia: “Better on Facebook Than in the Streets”
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:37
Usage of Facebook among Serbian youth. Photo by Danica Radovanovic
Training In India: Change Needed
Submitted by New Media Rights on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 13:43Thailand: Tweet Yourself Thai
Submitted by New Media Rights on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 07:22Tweet Yourself Thai is a blog of “short, timely, thematic lessons for intermediate learners of Thai.”
Taiwan: Students ask for more rights
Submitted by New Media Rights on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 21:16A team of university student representatives from various universities and colleges established their official blog[zht] and published the 2010 evaluation result of students' right in universities. They criticize some universities for opening courses just to ask students to do what employees should do, enforcing students to go to military courses, and forbidding students to march on the streets.
Costa Rica: University Students Protest Budget Agreements
Submitted by New Media Rights on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 14:09Some University of Costa Rica students took hold of the social sciences building in protest of the budgetary agreement that was reached between the government and university officials where a 7% budget increase was agreed upon after negotiating the original 4% the government proposed.
Thailand: Elitist education and politics
Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 20:25Ladprao 64 asks why many university students and graduates of Thailand are supporting political groups with “fascist” tendencies.
Thailand: Learn Thai language through Skype
Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 20:20Catherine Wentworth discusses the procedure and her experience of learning the Thai language through Skype.
