CNN (March 10)
“Westerners are increasingly scared of traveling to China as threat of detention rises.” The increased apprehensiveness extends to academia and could have ripple effects. “With fewer academics willing to travel to China… the result could be fewer Western minds reporting on and studying China firsthand at a time when, arguably, the world has never had a greater need to understand the country.”
Tags: Academics, Arguably, China, Detention, Scared, Studying, Threat, Travel. Reporting, Westerners
The Economist (May 1, 2013)
“Youth unemployment is a big and growing problem.” With a few exceptions, such as Germany, youth unemployment has been grown worse since the 2008 financial crisis. “Globally nearly 290 million young people are neither working nor studying calculates the Economist, almost a quarter of the planet’s youth.”
Tags: Financial Crisis, Germany, Studying, Unemployment, Working, Youth
Time (October 3)
Kids don’t study enough is the common complaint. South Korea faces a different problem: Children are studying too hard. Government officials have started patrols to “find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them.” The officials hope “to reduce the country’s addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies (called hagwons).” South Korea hopes to curb excesses “to reduce student stress and reward softer qualities like creativity.”
Tags: Creativity, Government, South Korea, Studying
