List of Education articles
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Students at the University of Birmingham take part in their degree congregations as they graduate on July 14, 2009 in Birmingham, England. Over 5000 graduates will be donning their robes this week to collect their degrees from The University of Birmingham. A recent survey suggested that there are 48 graduates competing for every job. A Chinese Feminist, Made in America
How four years at Amherst College changed my perception of my home country, and myself.
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china_testing1 China’s Hot New Luxury Product: the SAT
Wealthy Chinese students are ditching the country’s infamous college entrance exam and taking America’s standardized test instead.
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jumaa Making ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Sound Sexy
Since January, students at 23 universities around the world have taken part in a “peer-to-peer” competition to research, design, and launch U.S. State Department-backed social media campaigns aimed at countering the influence of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups in their communities.
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BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 18: (CHINA OUT) Students graduate during a ceremony held for 3,768 master and 898 doctorates being given out at the Tsinghua University on July 18, 2007 in Beijing, China. China faces a major challenge in meeting its goal of creating nine million jobs this year, according to Tian Chengping, Minister of Labour and Social Security. Approximately five million college graduates, the largest number in history, will enter the job market this year, in addition to surplus rural labourers swarming into cities for work. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) For American Students in China, Some Risks, No Regrets
Life in the People's Republic can be trying — but for a young American, it's also transformative. FP surveys a rising generation of cross-cultural natives.
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US - Africa Leaders Summit Continues In Washington DC Stephen Schwarzman Wants to Create a Global Network for Peace
The private equity mogul does not think of his eponymous China studies program as just a scholarship — he thinks of it as a way to avoid war.
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Robert Foyle Hunwick The Communists that China Forgot
Not an hour from Beijing is a hard-core leftist's "utopia," free from modern Chinese materialism. Welcome to Righteous Path Farm Academy.
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NIGERIA-UNREST-KIDNAP Nigerians See Cynicism in Army’s Speculation of Chibok Girls’ Rescue
The Nigerian Army announced Tuesday that it rescued hundreds of women and girls from a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria. But its decision to clarify that it wasn't clear whether some were the missing Chibok girls sparked anger on social media.
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1024px-SC180455t Don’t push me!: How being on the CGSC faculty is sending me right over the edge
Since many of CGSC’s problems are systemic, it is difficult to know where to begin, so let’s start with organization.
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textbook Where’s the Beef? Five of the World’s More Unusual Textbook Kerfuffles
Textbook troubles have erupted over some surprising questions.
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AFG-100824-054 Hey Tom, we’ve made a whole bunch of changes down here at the Air University
In recent years, calls to shutter the doors of Air War College have routinely filled the Best Defense blog.
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Flickr/Creative Commons China’s Top Schools Get Middling Marks for Transparency
Elite Peking University fared particularly poorly in newly released rankings.
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1024px-Microsoft_PowerPoint_for_Mac_2011 Quote of the day: Breaking the chains of PowerPoint and actually learning to write
A look at why learning how to write is crucial to success.
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WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images Signs of Resistance to China’s Latest Ideological Crackdown
Forcing students to reject ideas from the West may just encourage them to live there instead.
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CHINA-EDUCATION-SOCIETY China’s Wealthy Parents Are Fed Up With State-Run Education
Forget rote memorization and pressure-packed tests -- Western, alternative learning is the new rage.
