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Yahoo! News: Education News

Hundreds of young Syrians find academic home at US colleges

Posted: 06 Jun 2015 10:20 AM PDT

Syrian brothers Mohammad Kayali, left, Ebrahim Kayali, right and Molham Kayali, center, pose for a photograph on the Emporia State University campus in Emporia, Kan., Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Tens of thousands of college students in Syria have been displaced by the long-running conflict, creating an educational vacuum that colleges around the world are increasingly seeking to fill in the hopes that the KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brothers Molham and Mohammad Kayali spray-painted anti-government graffiti around Aleppo University in northern Syria in early 2012 and held up flags in protest against President Bashar al Assad's government. Worried that their lives were in danger, they gave up on school and fled to Turkey in September 2012.

Mexico teachers seek to block vote in opium poppy area

Posted: 06 Jun 2015 09:02 AM PDT

A Mexican police officer stands next to a wall with graffiti calling for a boycott of upcoming elections and asking for news on 43 missing students in Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero State, on June 4, 2015Sitting around a table in a dimly lit room, teachers and activists plot how to disrupt Sunday's midterm elections in an impoverished southern Mexico town fed up with corrupt politicians. The town of Tlapa is home to some of the fiercest protests held by radical teachers who have vowed to block the elections for federal Congress, governor and mayors in the state of Guerrero in anger at the authorities.

Students riot after Congo cancels leaked baccalaureate exams

Posted: 06 Jun 2015 02:42 AM PDT

Thousands of Congo Republic high school students rioted on Friday in three of the country's biggest cities following a decision by the government to cancel baccalaureate exams after the questions were leaked online. Education Minister Hellot Matson Mampouya said questions for the exams, which began on June 2 and mark the end of high school education, had been leaked and were being shared on social media. "We felt it would be irresponsible to continue the exams with so many irregularities." Mampouya said the 66,582 students registered for the exams would have to retake them on a date yet to be decided.

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