Hi Sophie and all
A late reply to an interesting message... sorry for
the delay, I've been terribly caught up in the outrageous measures that were
approved by Parliament in the recent law governing Upper Secondary Education.
Teachers were on strike all of last week and up to yesterday, well actually I'm
one of the few that held out the whole time (not that I have my financial issues
settled but I will sacrifice wages to protest against thousands of teachers
having already been laid off: I know my turn will come soon, the government is
strangling all of lower to middle-class Greek society plus now we have a fascism
trend on our hands too).
No need to get into more tragic details of
everyday life in Greece in the EU, it's all over international news anyway.
I am particularly pleased that my eye-witness
account of the situation in Greek education has been included as an external
link. In appreciation that Wikimedia is not an Foundation isolated
from important social issues especially where education is involved, I
have added a link to another blog post about ICT education in Greece:
unfortunately the Informatics class was indeed abolished from University entry
curriculum, which was described as a "Giant Step Backward" by the Computer Science Teachers'
Association in New York, NY (scroll down to Aug. 26). My blog
post however does include around 15 external links (once a citation advocate,
always a citation advocate!) so it's not just me saying these things. Oh and by
the way, the CSTA and the EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science) were the only two replies
I got to the letter: no reply from the recipient or CC'ed EU
officials and agencies whatsoever.
I also did some editing work on the
way...:)
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Mina
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 7:45
PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] A page on
outreach for each country'seducational activities
Hi all
lovely people!
Just to
let you know (and please do edit if something is missing or is incorrect)
there are pages for each country which can be found here;
I know
some of you have been editing and adding already, thank you for that! The two
main reasons for having these pages are;
* For
all of us to quickly see what is going on in education around the
world
* For
you to hopefully be inspired by what others are taking on in education
And of
course, to feel great pride of all the work that is currently being done!
Be Bold!
Sophie
Österberg
sosterberg@wikimedia.org
Every single contribution to Wikipedia is
a
gift of free knowledge to humanity.
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