Singapore adopts Israeli-style education
Israel Hayom- November 7, 2012 The "Excellence 2000" program, developed by The Israel Center for Excellence through Education, was purchased by the education ministry in Singapore • It is currently employed in 300 Israeli schools and 150 schools in the U.S. Despite local criticism of Israel's educational system, for the past...
Young Chinese reporter puts officials on the spot
The West- November 11, 2012 BEIJING - Chinese officials accustomed to the tame questions of a compliant state press were caught out by a plucky 11-year-old reporter during the country's sensitive Communist Party congress. Sun Luyuan, a Beijing sixth-grade student, on Friday shook up one of the tightly-controlled party meetings...
Power, corruption and the Communists
BBC News- 9 November 2012 From the outside, the hold the Communist Party has on China looks as solid as a rock. It wields absolute power over China's 1.3 billion people. But after six decades there are fears that the party is corroding from the inside, its ranks riddled with corruption. On Friday, delegates from different provinces...
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