Affairs / Education
Monocolumn
Saturday 30 January
Can uniforms improve Israel’s schools?
Can a plain t-shirt be the answer to the problems of the Israeli education system?
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The Entrepreneurs, episode 12
The show focuses on luxury watches, visiting craftsmen in Amsterdam and also taking a look at the education system in Phnom Penh.
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Friday 26 November
Branding Finland
A silicon valley of social innovations, a land where the lakes are virtually drinkable, a country that has managed to export its unbeatable education system just as the French did with their healthcare and Médecins sans…
Affairs / Books
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 June
Quality of life series – Turning a page in Faulkner country
Around one in five adults in Mississippi will not be able to read this column. The poorest state in America, Mississippi also has the country’s lowest literacy rates, a historic problem within its educational system that…
Business / Education
Yes we cram
As South Korea’s economy continues its rapid growth, so too does its education system. And the fight to get little junior an early leg-up in life begins in the ‘hagwon’, an often expensive crammer school where hours are…
Affairs / Education
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 February
Pushy parents make an early start
Forget top institutions such as IIT and Delhi University, the most highly sought-after education places in India this month are being contested by a much younger crowd: three-year-olds.
Affairs / Management
Monocolumn
Friday 9 April
The rise of women in top jobs
With India’s – mostly male – MPs embroiled in a prolonged debate in Parliament over the pros and cons of a bill that would set aside a third of seats for women, the spotlight is firmly on the role of the fairer sex in…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 June
Education hits the rocks
Emotions are running wild in the run up to a referendum in July in which Hamburg citizens will decide whether to abolish what are known in Germany as Hauptschule.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 31 January
Young, bright and illegal
You’d assume that the priority of a nation’s immigration policy should be to extract the largest possible benefit from it. If that were the case, someone who is young, highly educated and speaks the local language fluently…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 10 August
UK Riots Part 2: Do French and British societies suffer the same social ills?
A youth from a segregated area dies as the result of a police chase, leading to widespread, violent riots: Paris in 2005, London in 2011 – two similar scenarios, both highlighting a social rather than ethnic malaise.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 30 December
Forecast 2011: Taiwan looks on the bright side
It’s been a rough 100 years for one of Asia’s pioneering democracies, but the Taiwanese are commemorating their centennial birthday with a “little-country-that-could” mindset.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 20 March
The international language of queueing
There are three things that mark one out as British: a proper cup of tea, turning almost any conversation onto the subject of weather, and a sense of fair play that is best exhibited in politely standing in line and waiting…
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Tuesday 28 December
Forecast 2011: Flashing the cash seen as the path to success
They may not yet have flat roads, regular electricity or a constant water supply, but work on Timor-Leste’s first mall is almost complete.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 27 January
Burma’s parliament holds the key for new investment
When Burma’s new parliament first opened just one year ago, it was roundly dismissed as a front which the country’s authoritarian rulers would use to rubber-stamp their decisions.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 18 July
Gay rights given an unexpected 'official' boost in China
Firestorm over a Chinese actress’s homophobic microblog
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 29 November
Learning to love criticism
Being born in Finland is like winning the lottery. That is an old saying that every single Finn knows.
Edits / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 3 August
I want to ride my bicycle
Most Muscovites feel that getting on a bike in this city is little short of lunacy, and not without good reason.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 10 July
Expenses scandal, Kiwi-style
A year after the expenses scandal that threw the UK’s parliament into crisis, aftershocks are registering in New Zealand.