Two Spanish students are facing jail time over cheating an entrance exam for vocational studies. One of the boys was caught using the other’s ID card to take the exam under the other boy’s name. Since the two falsified public documents, they risk 12 months in jail and the payment of 6 Euros per day for the whole time behind bars. More...
17 février 2016
ESU condemns jailing of students for cheating on exams
SYL: Want to stay, but forced to leave
In what light do international students and youth see Finland? Racism is present every day and asylum seekers fear fire bomb strikes. To get even an interview when applying for a job, you often need to be fluent in Finnish and have a Finnish-sounding name. The bureaucracy is difficult to master. More...
OECD Report Challenges English Higher Education
A disturbing report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has revealed that English students are falling behind other developed nations in the acquisition of basic literacy and numeracy skills. Northern Ireland students do somewhat better while Scotland and Wales did not take part in the survey on which the report is based. The best performing countries for literacy skills among 16-19 year-olds are Korea, Japan, Netherlands, Finland and Estonia. For numeracy skills they are Korea, Netherlands, Japan, Finland and Slovakia. More...
On target for 21st-century learning? The answers (and questions) are now on line
By Tue Halgreen Analyst and Kelly Makowiecki. Put your pencils down. No, the test isn’t over; it might just be starting: the PISA-based Test for Schools has gone digital. More...
Are we failing our failing students?
By Daniel Salinas. Tens of thousands of students in each country, and millions of students around the world, reach the end of their compulsory education without having acquired the basic skills needed in today’s society and workplace. More...
Why teacher professionalism matters
By Katarzyna Kubacka. If you were to search for the term teacher professionalism on the Internet, you may come across websites recommending professional dress code or “look” for teachers. Although this may be of some use to a new teacher, appearance is not what most policy makers, school leaders and teachers have in mind when they insist on the need for a quality professional teacher force. More...
The Sustainable Development Goals and Development Co-operation
By Erik Solheim. The Sustainable Development Goals which world leaders agreed on in 2015 are focussed on people, peace and planet. Achieving goals requires a transformational, integrated, and universal agenda that is based on effective policies, sufficient pecunia and true partnerships. More...
Joint government interpretation of investment treaties
By David Gaukrodger. Public debate about investment treaties often focuses on whether treaties are being well-interpreted in investor-state arbitration cases in accordance with governments’ intent. More...
Flabber-gassed by our noxious air: can electric vehicles save us?
By Shayne MacLachlan. Paris is a beautiful city but has an ugly problem with air pollution. Using 2 wheels to get to work, one becomes acutely aware of this insidious addiction to cars, and the “essence” of the problem, DIESEL. Queuing at the red lights (which unlike many Parisians I observe) sucking up the carcinogenic fumes, should I feel happy or sad knowing that those in the cars themselves are getting a worse dose of “the product” than those using greener ways to get about? Switching to electric vehicles could save some lives and certainly might help the French public purse as the health, economic and financial damages of air pollution are costing the country an estimated EUR 100 billion per year. More...
Rest in peace Moped, electric scooters are here
By Minh Ha-Duong. In the last decade two-wheeler electric vehicles have been taking over the streets of Asian capitals, to the point that it is time to declare the gas moped commercially dead. Rest in peace. More...
