Yekaterina Makarevitch a travaillé à Moscou en tant que producteur sur différentes chaînes de télévision, mais a quitté ce travail pour des raisons politiques. Comme beaucoup de gens qui sont en désaccord avec la politique de Poutine, elle a décidé de partir de la Russie. Maintenant, elle vit à Kiev. En Ukraine, elle veut faire un projet d' ( Read more... )

Оригинал взят у shrajvo в Друзья, требуется ваша помощь

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Finnish education consistently takes best positions in various rankings. According to international research by PISA, Finnish students showed the world's highest level of knowledge; they read the most in the world, took 2nd place in the natural sciences and 5th in math. Incredibly, that with such high results Finnish pupils spend the least amount ( Read more... )

There is a discussion going on in the community ru_mglu about the level of teaching in my Alma Mater, MSLU. Nowadays students have to pay for additional languages. They also have to pay a whopping 3000 roubles ($100) for a lost student card. As for teaching, the general opinion is that in MSLU languages are taught better than in other well-known ( Read more... )

The shortage of student housing in Sweden is acute. In Lund the student union has put up two big military tents with sleeping places. The worst situation is in big cities. In Stockholm 45,000 students are waiting in the housing queue and in Gothenburg the queue has doubled.


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In Russian institutes of higher learning, as many as a half of the students buy their exams and credits while a third of the teachers systematically accept bribes. Each semester costs Russian students 150 million dollars in bribes.В нынешнюю летнюю сессию из карманов студентов в карманы преподавателей переместятся 150 млн. долларов. Именно в такую ( Read more... )

Finland has got the first place among 32 countries in the quality of school education of 15-year-old children. School teacher's salary in Finland cannot be below three thousand euro.Финляндия заняла первое место среди 32 стран по результатам оценки подготовки подростков по трем направлениям: грамотность чтения, математическая грамотность и ( Read more... )

В понедельник, 4 мая, я ездил в Хельсинки сдавать вступительный тест по шведскому языку для университета Åbo Akademi. Тест проходил в Шведской высшей школе торговли (на фото). Тест был достаточно трудный, т.к. в нем в основном проверялось понимание на слух, а я привык читать тексты. Тем не менее, я набрал высокий балл - 159 из 200. Для ( Read more... )

I have taken a small test on geography for the Russian secondary school and answered all 12 questions correctly. The same result has been shown by only 9% of the polled residents of Russia. I finished school many years ago, but geography has always been one of my favourite subjects.

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In the Québec province one in four pupils leave secondary school without getting the diploma. Among boys this rate is one in three. Over the last 20 years the situation with dropping out of school has not improved."Au Québec, un élève sur quatre a abandonné ses études secondaires, c'est-à-dire qu'un garçon sur trois et qu'une fille sur cinq n' ( Read more... )