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| Focus Representing a two trillion dollar budget worldwide, education is one of the last domains to remain largely in public hands. Riding on a neo-liberal tide, mounting discontent with public schools and the Internet’s spread, the corporate world is putting its stamp on education. The United States is at the helm of this wave of privatization, now spreading across the globe. But is everyone profiting from this trend? Will education be reduced to a purely economic mission? |
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| Shopping heaven They are the ultimate entertainment destinations: walled kingdoms outside space and time where the weary can give free rein to the pleasure principle and consume in a holiday spirit Photos by Marco Pesaresi, text by Vicente Verdu. Marco Pesaresi is an Italian photographer. Vicente Verdu is a Spanish journalist and writer, and winner of the Anagrama essay prize in 1996. |
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| Guarding the common interest Jacques Hallak, UNESCO assistant director-general for education. |
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| Brazil turns its back
on the Amazon trade For the first time, the Brazilian public has joined the ecological campaign to save the rainforest Diana Alves, Brazilian journalist specializing in the environment. |
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| Where the riches lie The preservation of forest areas can only be funded through regulated and sustainable use of the rest of the Amazonian jungle Diana Alves, Brazilian journalist specializing in the environment. |
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| Teaching free Timor Money may be tight, but East Timor’s school year began recently with plenty of enthusiasm. One of the people in charge discusses what lies in store Gabriel Dvoskin, Argentine journalist. |
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| Garlic, knives and banners:
football’s racist faces The terraces of some of Europe’s biggest football clubs have become stomping grounds for racist abuse, though the problem stems far beyond match day Tim Crabbe, principle lecturer in sport sociology at Britain’s Sheffield Hallam University. |
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| A tricolour triumph? France’s recent footballing successes have been hailed as victories over racism, but discrimination lingers on Tim Crabbe, principle lecturer in sport sociology at Britain’s Sheffield Hallam University. |
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| The price of a good read The price of books in recent years has pitted small independent bookshops against the big chains, supermarkets and the Internet. But what is in the customer’s best interest? Lucía Iglesias Kuntz, UNESCO Courier journalist. |
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| All eyes on the reality
game A new television genre has won huge audiences across the world. Despised by some, adored by others, reality shows play upon the paradoxes of modern society–but at what cost? Ivan Briscoe, UNESCO Courier journalist. |
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| Inside the emotion machine Peter Lunt, a social psychologist at University College London and expert on the impact of television, pins the vogue for “reality” on changes in public emotional life Interview by Ivan Briscoe. |
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| Maryse Condé: grand
dame of Caribbean literature The celebrated author speaks openly of her new book, passion and politics with Elizabeth Nunez, a leading literary light from Trinidad |
