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A group of us were sitting around discussing South African education over a cup of coffee. We weren’t really talking about the problems in education today, or the lack of respect kids have for their teachers, but rather what we wish we had been taught...
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More than 120,000 high school students whose university entrance exams were delayed by the massive Chinese earthquake in May finally sat down Thursday to take the tests...
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, students from Beichuan Middle School and other schools of Beichuan County walk to a makeshift exam room set up for university entrance exams, in Mianyang City, in southwest China’s Sichuan...
