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Peace Café, a student-led platform by the Centre for Peace and Justice at BRAC University and UN Women Bangladesh has been empowering its members, especially young women students to promote peace, social cohesion, diversity, plurality, inclusivity, tolerance, and non-discrimination. : Photo provided by Peace Cafe

Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process or will it remain a pipe dream?

International Women's Day

How patriarchal mindset prevents women in peace efforts

Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process or will it remain a pipe dream?

Education
Women are often unable to escape the poverty trap due to traditional barriers they face in society. : ‘Women of the World’ by Robyn Jay available at https://bit.ly/3YxnQFS CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Research across the world demonstrates how global poverty can be tackled effectively by empowering women in all aspects.

Empowering women to reduce poverty

Poverty battle raged on in 2022, here are four ways women are working to escape it

Research across the world demonstrates how global poverty can be tackled effectively by empowering women in all aspects.

Economy
The use of Malaysian English has helped millions across the country overcome language barriers and bring Malaysians together. : Ravin Rau Unsplash License

Malaysian English or Manglish plays a central role in the lives of locals. Its benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

Language Barriers

Malaysian English is not mangled, it’s unifying

Malaysian English or Manglish plays a central role in the lives of locals. Its benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

Human Interest
Nursing students are potentially leaving the country to meet the health labour market overseas : Nugroho Nurdikiawan Sunjoyo

Internationalisation or intellectual colonialisation? A look into Asia

Education brain drain

Asia: Less brain drain more global consciousness

Education
Image: Michael Joiner, 360info

Backgrounder: 591 words

Developing economies have lost promising students to top universities in the West for decades. A global re-think of education may be needed to change it.

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Special Report

Education brain drain

Education
For many Chinese students, the so-called ‘internationalisation of global education’ feels more like Westernisation. Picture: Ulrich & Mareli Aspeling, Unsplash. : Ulrich & Mareli Aspeling, Unsplash.

China’s universities have embraced a global perspective, but students say their own language, culture and history have been disregarded in the turn to the West.

Education brain drain

China: Preserving the local as universities become international

Education
A photographer takes a picture of a class of students and their teacher, Tokyo station, Marunouchi, Japan. : Basile Morin

Influential global bodies are having their say on the future of education, and the outcome could shape the economy and environment for generations.

Education brain drain

Education giants battle for the future of learning

Education
Sculpture at Karnatak University, Dharwad, India : Vijaya Narasimha

Demand for higher education is hitting new heights in India, but the biggest beneficiaries seem to be foreign universities.

Education brain drain

India: tapping into the higher-education boom

Education
Bajau children swim in front of their village : Torben Venning

Developing economies need research to improve quality of life. Combining developed and developing economies into a research consortium builds capacity.

Education brain drain

Indonesia: Challenging ‘exploitative’ fly-in, fly-out research

Education