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6 Yeah! International Student Magazine

There was a time when if you felt

slighted about a long stint in

detention, or you were being picked

on in class you could Rate your

Teacher in an online rant. Earlier

still, for centuries, there was very

little you could do about unfair

classroom teaching techniques.

Student activism has become more

prolif ic in recent years, with

advances in social media. If you

want to highlight an issue with

respect to the ed u cat io na l ,

environmental or social deficiencies

of an institution, Yeah! Magazine

would like to hear about the

campaign that youve launched. You

might find inspiration in the details

of a young Brazilians Facebook

Community Page.

A recent Facebook post by thirteen

year old student Isadora Faber has

explained how she now is officially

on vacation along with the rest

of her school due to the schools

budgetary circumstances. Her irony

is clear when she suggests that this

is democratic because every

student is shown the same level of

e q u i t y re ga rd l e s s o f h o w

assiduous or rowdy they have been

in their yearlong studies. The post

has so far been liked by more than

fourteen thousand, and her FB

page, Dirio de Classe, has built up

more than a half million subscribers

to December 2012. In August, it had

160,000. Problems with exposed

live wiring, substandard food, and

the budgets and accounts of the

education system are fair game on

this Community page.

Isadora was inspired by a Scottish

student who had posted complaints

about the lack of nutrition and

quality of the school dinners

available at her school in the UK.

The Brazilian student has implied

that attempts have been made by

the school to discourage her posts,

including classes during which the

schools regulations have been

d i s c u s s e d , a l o n g s i d e t h e

consequences of posting libelous or

defamatory content about the

school or its staff members. With

the Facebook pages popularity

growing, Isadora discerned a

message from the teacher that was

both clear and veiled. The result

was a visit to the local police station,

widespread media attention, and a

subsequent increase in Isadoras

fame. Other Brazilian students have

now seized on the opportunity to

highlight problems in their own

schools. A plethora of mainstream

media reports describe how high

school pupils are posting the details

of poor school faci l it ies and

services, and how their educators

are now commending their citizen

activism, rather than deploring it.

Isadoras home city of Florianopolis

in Santa Catarina ranks highly on the

Human Development Index. It is

regarded as one of the top urban

c e n t r e s i n t h e S o u t h e r n

Hemisphere. Despite such success

stories, as an emerging economy,

Brazil has been heavily criticized by

such bodies as the World Bank for

its education system, with private

companies finding that they have to

establish their own classes so as to

introduce bas ic reading and

m a t h e m a t i c s s k i l l s t o t h e i r

workforces.

Social welfare programs that

provide cash for attendance to

families with infants and children of

school -going age have been

introduced in recent years, which

have been in part responsible for a

significant reduction in poverty.

However, with many of Brazils

other regions underdeveloped by

comparison with Florianopolis, the

problems for the Ministry of

Education have become if not

more pronounced certainly more

obvious.

By Richard Gibney

Brazil 's school f laws highlighted by citizen activism

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ISV Magazine

Yeah! Vox Pop

Special report!

International student magazines join forces

By Dan Thomas The Pie news

Two magazines aimed at international students but based on opposite sides of the Atlantic have teamed up to

promote mobility. Yeah! International Student Magazine, based in Ireland, offers advice about the country and

its culture to overseas students, while the US-basedInternational Student Voice (ISV) does much the same in the

US.

The two will share articles, correspondents and advertising in 2013, hoping to tap the other's growing

readership.

We have similar objectives and we will share articles and work together

We are sharing practically everything, Yeah!

Magazine'sdirector, Raffael Abarca, told the PIE

News: We have similar objectives and we will

share articles and work together to promote

education in Ireland and the US to promote our

businesses.

The US has long been a major source of

international students for Ireland, sending 4,445

in 2011/12, up slightly from the previous year and

second only after China. Meanwhile, 1,100 Irish

went the other way and long standing ties exist

with the Irish American community.

The deal could augur more interflow. Launched

this year, Yeah! is the only magazine of its kind in

Ireland and given out at every university, many

English language schools, as well by agents

overseas.

Yeah! Magazine, Ireland, and International

Student Voice in the US will share content and

advertising

The US sent 4,445 students to Ir elanI

Ireland in 2011/12; 1,100 Irish went t h e

other way.

Lauren Hudson-University of South Carolina

This photo was taken at The Burren,

in Ireland, where I am currently

studying abroad. The photo

represents opening up

to all the new and exciting

experiences that being an

international student has to offer. 30 Yeah! International Student Magazine

University (l inks to profile on QS) CountryOverall

Score

2012

Rank

2011

Rank

2010

Rank

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 100 1 3 5

University of Cambridge United Kingdom 99.8 2 1 1

Harvard University United States 99.2 3 2 2

UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 98.7 4 7 4

University of Oxford United Kingdom 98.6 5 5 6

Imperial College London United Kingdom 98.3 6 6 7

Yale University United States 97.5 7 4 3

University of Chicago United States 96.3 8 8 8

Princeton University United States 95.4 9 13 10

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 95.1 10 12 9

Columbia University United States 94.7 11 10 11

University of Pennsylvania United States 94.5 12 9 12

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 92.8 13 18 18

Cornell University United States 92.1 14 15 16

Stanford University United States 91.7 15 11 13

Johns Hopkins University United States 91.2 16 16 17

University of Michigan United States 91.2 17 14 15

McGill University Canada 90.4 18 17 19

University of Toronto Canada 89.6 19 23 29

Duke University United States 89.5 20 19 14

University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 89.2 21 20 22

University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 88.1 22 21 28

University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 87.9 23 22 23

Australian National University Australia 87.6 24 26 20

National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 87.2 25 28 31

King?s College London (University of London) United Kingdom 87.1 26 27 21

Northwestern University United States 85.4 27 24 26

University of Bristol United Kingdom 85.4 28 30 27

Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne Switzerland 85.1 29 35 32

The University of Tokyo Japan 85 30 25 24

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 84.6 31 34 35

The University of Manchester United Kingdom 84.2 32 29 30

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 83.5 33 40 40

cole Normale Suprieure, Paris France 83.3 34 33 33

Kyoto University Japan 83.3 35 32 25

The University of Melbourne Australia 83.2 36 31 38

Seoul National University Korea, South 82.2 37 42 50

University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 81.4 38 41 48

The University of Sydney Australia 81.3 39 38 37

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 80.1 40 37 42

Ecole Polytechnique France 79.6 41 36 36

Brown University United States 79.5 42 39 39

New York University (NYU) United States 78.9 43 44 41

Peking University China 78.8 44 46 47

University of British Columbia Canada 78.6 45 51 44

The University of Queensland Australia 78.2 46 48 43

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 77.7 47 58 74

Tsinghua University China 77.5 48 47 54

Carnegie Mellon University United States 77.4 49 43 34

Osaka University Japan 76.8 50 45 49

Trinity Col lege Dubl in Ireland 71.3 67 65 52

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