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Find opportunities that are right for you to continue your education outside your home country.
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Freedom Degree, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. © 2024 | Powered by Strapi
Sep 26, 2024
Dates: October-December, 2024
There are two sets of courses to select from:
Compulsory courses will help students to become familiar with Montenegro (course “Modern Balkans: The Culture of Everyday Life” and tighten up English (4 hours per week).
Elective courses will give an introduction to different disciplines and help you decide on your future enrollment to FLAS. The program starts on October 7
Dates: October 21-15, 2024
Participants will be introduced to methods of learning through writing and their application in different disciplines. Academic texts, historical sources, literary texts – working with materials, participants will see how different writing formats influence the educational process and complement other approaches.
This workshop is affiliated with OSUN’s Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP), the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT), and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS) in Montenegro. The workshop is supported by Science at Risk Emergency Office and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Dates: September 17-18, 2024
The event took place on September 17-18 within the framework of the EU-supported project “Women in Technology”.
Participants discussed women's migration in the context of wars, humanitarian disasters and political changes, as well as how migration affects women's professional identity, career paths and working conditions.
Dates: September 12-13, 2024
The conference discussed philosophical and applied aspects of AI-human interaction. According to the authors of the report on the website, it was possible to build an interdisciplinary dialog on the topic of one of the main challenges of our time.
Given the focus of the conference on AI in education, much attention was paid to the issues of academic ethics, plagiarism, expansion of storytelling opportunities, and transformation of teaching practices in the context of machine learning development.
Dates: September 24-25, 2024.
Vasil Bykaŭ is one of the most famous Belarusian writers, an author who became famous for his works about the Second World War. Bykov was born in 1924 in Belarus and was himself a participant in the war, which deeply influenced his work. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Bykov was a member of the protest movement Belarus People's Front.
“The metaphor of the front line can also be applied to Vasil Bykaŭ's ambiguous, shifting, “partisan” relationship with the Soviet system, which he criticized, yet received the highest honors from it...”
Conference “The Kingdom of Empty Mirrors: Social Studies of the Social Sciences”
Dates: September 27-28
Several deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation spoke with such an initiative. One of its authors is Yaroslav Nilov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy, a member of the LDPR party.
Supporters of the initiative plan to continue their battle for the abolition of the USE even without the support of the Cabinet of Ministers. Earlier, the proposal to cancel the Uniform State Exam was criticized by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian scientists have no access to the largest international databases of scientific publications Scopus and Web of Science since 2022. In Russian academia, these indices are no longer taken into account when evaluating the work of scientists.
Instead, the government has developed the “White List” - the Russian analog of the publications database and the corresponding rating, where journals are ranked by citation index.
A recent decree by the Ministry of Education and Science states that publications in the White List will now be taken into account when selecting candidates for additional state grants for education and research.
The country ranks 43rd in the world by this indicator. Israel, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA spend the most on science. At the same time, Russia has seen an increase in spending in absolute terms. Statistics provided by the Institute for Statistical Research and Knowledge Economy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Slightly more than a third of spending on science falls on the private sector, and 66.6% - on the state.
At least these words will be excluded from mentioning in school programs.
The project, prepared by the Ministry of Education, includes adjustments to the programs of primary, general and secondary education. It is planned to exclude references to international and European sports organizations, as well as terms such as “gender specifics”, “bullying” and “tolerance” from school curricula.
It is planned to replace the term “bullying” with “psychological violence” or “systematic humiliation of honor and dignity”. Instead of “gender features” they plan to use the word “sex”.
The full list of proposed changes is available on the federal portal of normative acts of the Russian Federation.
Under recent changes in the law, school districts will need approval from the state Department of Education if they want to make changes to lesson programs on reproductive health and disease prevention.
It's a battle between two different approaches to sex education.
Republicans are pushing for a method called abstinence-only education. This approach focuses on abstinence from sexual relations outside of marriage.
Conservative state authorities are angry about school education on contraception, reproductive anatomy and the principles of mutual consent. Department of Education officials, led by Governor Ron De Santis, are demanding that schools reduce the number of such classes.
Experts and representatives of specialized NGOs say that the lack of such education in schools leads to an increase in HIV and unwanted teenage pregnancies.