France sinking, China rising in results from the highly anticipated “Pisa” global education study.
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A Raucous Opening Night At La Scala
As Wagner’s “Die Walkure” inaugurates the season at the world’s most famous opera house, politics and culture and people clash in Milan La Scala (via flickr) By Alberto Mattioli MILAN – This time, Daniel Barenboim picked up a microphone instead of a baton. The famous conductor, having come on stage to applause at the opening […]
After 2003 looting and years of disrepair, a onetime cultural gem in Baghdad gets restoration help from Florence and Venice. Iraqi National Library after it was attacked in 2003 (IFLA) LA STAMPA/Worldcrunch By Carla Reschia FLORENCE – Iraqi officials responsible for returning their ransacked National Library to its former glory are turning to a country […]
France’s business and management schools top the Financial Times’ annual European rankings, but French higher education system still lags in other surveys. By Dominique Seux PARIS – Four of the top10; five of the top 15; eighteen of the top 70. France can indeed be proud of the 2010 results of the annual European business […]