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Brazil Needs More English Teachers – Abril Educação Acquires Wise Up

As Brazil’s economy grows stronger, its need for more English speakers increases. Abril Educação, one of Brazil’s biggest publishers and an education company that teaches primary and secondary school courses, is ...
by Ling Shu
 
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Ensuring Access to Education for Indigenous Young Women: The Sacred Valley Project

The Sacred Valley Project (SVP) was established in 2009 to provide educational support services for young women from low-income, rural and hard-to-reach regions of the Andes by facilitating access to secondary education. In the...
by Ling Shu
 
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From Brazil to S. Korea to Learn Science

A group of 85 Brazilian college students are leaving their country to study science, engineering, and technology in South Korean universities for a year. The students are travelling with scholarships granted by the program Scie...
by Catarina Loureiro
 
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Kids Encouraged to Get in the Olympic Spirit in London and Beyond

The Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD) recently launched its 2012 Olympics campaign in London to support programs that promote sportsmanship, education, fair play, and ethics among international youth. The activitie...
by Lauren Riggs
 
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The Sustainable Development Generation: Rio+20 Conference Calls Youth to Action Worldwide

Despite some sense of disillusionment amongst global media outlets regarding the difficulty of implementing tangible results from the recent United Nations Conference On Sustainable Development in Brazil (Rio+20), stakeholders...
by Lauren Riggs
 
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Environment Program Launched in Universities Worldwide

Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability(GUPES) has been launched in Rio de Janeiro and Tongji University in Shanghai on behalf of the United Nations. The UN Higher Education Sustainability Initiative(...
by Amanda Bragg
 
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For Newly-Minted Teachers in Chile, High Test Failure Rates

Chile’s primary education system is in trouble: in 2011, 69% of 3,271 newly graduated primary school teachers across 49 institutions of higher learning failed the Inicia test, which measures an educator’s teach...
by Ling Shu
 
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To Argentina! An Influx of International Students

Since 2007, the international student population at the Universidad de Buenos Aires(UBA) has increased by an impressive 45%. In 2009, the population numbered approximately 6,700. The reason for the influx of non-Argentinians? ...
by Ling Shu
 
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Venezuelan Government Controlling Study Abroad Via Currency

Venezuela’s Ministry of Higher Education has announced in its official newspaper, the Gaceta Oficial, that it would only allow students who were studying a select 172 subjects get dollars and euros through the Foreign Exc...
by Ling Shu
 
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