Vest Foot Forward: Police Reaction to High School Protests Gives #GiletsJaunes New Urgency!

Images showing dozens of teenagers in stress positions while being directed by heavily armed police have shocked #France, which is already reeling from the #GiletJaunes protests #MantesLaJolie

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

The images of the #teenagers from #MantesLaJolie – a fairly unremarkable suburb west of Paris proper – are incredibly disturbing and raise serious questions about policing policy #GiletsJeunes

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

Analysis (1): the alarming response by French police to a protest by high school students comes at a time when #France's commitment to #humanrights – both domestically and in terms of foreign policy – seems to be wavering #SaudiArabia #Africa

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

Analysis (2): that #MantesLaJolie has a relatively high proportion of its population who are either immigrants or descended from recent immigrants has been largely unreported by the international media, but this fact may also help explain the police actions against some #students

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

To watch: while the #GilesJaunes protests neatly fit into the voguish 'crisis of #capitalism' narrative, the reality is more complex and the problems much deeper than the undeniable economic ones; alienating the young will not dispel the #disenchantment https://t.co/dnBI52XX19

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

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Heartbreak High: Australian Teachers on Poverty’s Front Line!

#Australia: a national survey has found that 93% of #teachers are using their own money to purchase supplies for their #school or #students, with 25% of this overwhelming majority forking out >A$1,000/year #inequality #poverty

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

The survey of 7,804 Australian #teachers revealed that 78% of staff purchase stationery, 76% buy classroom equipment and 44% acquire library resources and #textbooks on behalf of #students or their institutions #poverty #Australia

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

Analysis: like in many developed countries, the rich-poor gap in #Australia is reaching perturbing proportions, with all too many citizens content to watch the poor suffer needlessly – even if they are #children #poverty

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

To watch: critics contend that public schools in #Australia are being seriously underfunded to the detriment of independent and religious #educational entities; extreme hardship at the bottom of #society is only set to increase https://t.co/x2yuOLIIRM #edu #schools

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

Korean Wave Latest: International Students Flocking to Soft Power Player!

#Universities in South #Korea are targeting international students as a vital new source of revenue as the post-2013 government restructuring programme has eaten chunks out of their bottom line #hallyu #edu #collegelife

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

Republic of #Korea: the number of international students at local #universities has increased from just 32,557 in 2006 to 123,858 in 2017, a ▲280.4% change in just 11 years #edu #schools #highered #globalization

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

Analysis: South #Korea could reap giant dividends from an expanded pool of international #students, but its #university system must address certain qualitative issues which are holding it back #edchat

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

To watch: South #Korea's extraordinarily low birth rate is now filtering through into tertiary education, with the number of new #undergraduates enrolling in 2018 the lowest since 2010; international students will be in even greater future demand https://t.co/ziZq7ml17Z #highered

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

World War Trade Latest: American Business Schools Experience Declining Footfall!

Graduate Management Admission Council: applications to business #school programmes in the United States have fallen by 6.6% in 2018, the fourth straight year of decline #UnitedStates #education #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

The reasons for the contraction in business #school applications are numerous, but a ▼10.5% year-on-year change in the number of international applications stands out as a serious warning to the US #highered system #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

Analysts: the combination of atavistic nationalism and incredibly expensive degrees is working against American business #schools, with their high-quality and more welcoming European counterparts profiting from these weaknesses #edu #HigherEducation

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

To watch: the #Trump administration's 'nativist' rhetoric is having a tangible and direct impact on Brand USA and how its products and services are perceived globally; further applications slides are likely #edu https://t.co/kY0pAcgAKw

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

A Textbook Case of Censorship: Chinese Education Ministry Erasing Foreign Content!

#China's Ministry of Education ('MOE') is ordering inspections of all textbooks in elementary and middle schools in order to remove 'foreign content' as the
Xi Jinping era risks taking a wildly nationalist turn #schools #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

The #Beijing-based Ministry of Education has set the extraordinarily exacting deadline of 15/10/2018 for the completion of investigations into teaching materials – investigations which have the explicit aim of erasing content that has 'replaced national curricula' #edu #China

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

Critically, international #schools – which exclusively enroll #students with non-Chinese passports – are subject to the MOE's notice, meaning that the increasingly popular bicultural and bilingual curricula are now a CCP target

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

To watch (1): while #humanrights are not a particularly strong suit of the PRC, moves such as textbook 'review procedures' are only going to erode #China's hard-won and richly-merited soft power credentials

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

To watch (2): the PRC's lurch towards a less relaxed form of command-and-control society could ultimately freak out investors and imperil #China's global leadership ambitions at exactly the wrong time https://t.co/jq2oztRdFL

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

Parallel Universe: Kurdish Statelet Shutters Syriac Schools!

Kurdish-dominated authorities have shuttered 14 #schools
in the cities of Qamishli, Hasakeh and Al-Malikiyeh that favoured teaching the Syrian government's national curriculum #Syria

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 12, 2018

During the war in #Syria, some of the border regions with #Turkey have effectively carved out a parallel state with its own Kurdish-medium educational curriculum, a programme which is not being accepted by the newly-closed #schools

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 12, 2018

Analysis: the Kurdish-majority areas in #Syria face an uphill battle in persuading the #Syriac minority to forsake the state's national curriculum and qualifications, which are – crucially for #students – internationally recognised

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 12, 2018

To watch: as the war in #Syria segues into what look like its final chapters, the guaranteeing of ethnic, religious and linguistic rights will be vital to the country's #future #edu #schools https://t.co/D8XVDiiohK

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 12, 2018

Fifth-Largest Economy Latest: School Uniform Costs Driving Families into Debt!

Children’s Society: 1m #children in #England live in families that are falling into debt to meet rising school uniform costs #schools #debt #family

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 4, 2018

#Children's Society report: the creeping indebtedness of many families is being caused by a combination of the erosion of the social security system and #schools' insistence on the wearing of branded uniforms

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 4, 2018

The Wrong Blazer 2018 (#Children's Society report): the average cost of a single secondary school uniform is now £340.00/€377.32, while the equivalent figure for primary school garb is £255.00/€282.99 #schools

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 4, 2018

Analysis: judging by the UK's results in international academic rankings, far too many British secondary #schools seemingly care more about dress code enforcement than preparing their charges for the challenges of a globalised knowledge economy #PISA #economics

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 4, 2018

To watch: the percentage of UK parents going into #debt to fund #school uniform costs has increased from 7% in 2015 to 13% in 2018, a near-doubling in just three years; #charities and civil society need to prepare for a possible post-#Brexit mega-crisis https://t.co/2a9lKkC2lA

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 4, 2018