Social media platforms can provide safe, accurate and confidential information about sex to teens.
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Social media platforms can be a gateway for young people who need to access essential resources and support services.
Teachers can learn from each other and come to see that they are inclusive educators.
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Professional learning communities are a space for teachers to discuss their teaching methods and their immediate realities.
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E-textbooks have potential to enhance inclusivity and engagement in engineering education.
Statisticians are able to assess and analyse data, crucial skills in today’s world.
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Fewer graduates means fewer data analysis experts to aid in knowledge creation and innovation.
Play and storytelling are a crucial part of children’s cognitive development.
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Children benefit enormously from regular, cognitively stimulating interactions with their caregivers.
Trainee Black chartered accountants need more mentoring and psychological support.
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Chartered accounting needs professionals who have gone through some healing from their experiences.
Making short films can change the way people learn.
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Making films meets many needs of young people by combining the learning of soft skills, computer literacy and artistic expression.
A child walking to school in the rural village of Qunu in South Africa.
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Rural school leaders must develop resilience in their pursuit for learners’ success.
Parents play a key role as co-educators of their children.
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Studies show that teaching parents how to support their children can lead to improvements in literacy.
Both children and parents benefit from daily play and reading activities.
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Neither hopefulness nor childhood development can occur in a vacuum. Strong relational bonds matter, too.
Removing cost barriers helps girls to get a secondary education.
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Free secondary educational policy in Ghana is worthwhile but struggles to keep up with quality.
Children will often sing and dance for visiting tourists.
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A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
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There should be a standard policy across all South African universities related to recognition of prior learning as a criterion for entrance.
Fake academic articles can cause significant harm.
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Paper mills rely on the desperation of researchers to fuel their business model.
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Students want more relatable examples, both of business leaders and of industry case studies.
Inequalities persist in the field of academic human geography.
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The cycle of opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot.
The use of mother tongues as languages of instruction has become popular in many parts of Africa.
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Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
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We all need to understand that ranking is not objective and true. University rankings are massively overvalued, and reinforce global, regional and national inequalities.
South Africa’s minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga.
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The fanfare and hype around the results risks obscuring the big picture.
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The teachers did not often adapt their practices to suit their specific cultural and linguistic contexts.
Assessment practices that put students at the centre could make education more equitable.
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Assessment is involved in many of the challenges facing higher education.
Children’s education is frequently disrupted in conflict-fraught areas.
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Education can spur peace and development. Here are five essential reads on the topic.
A new crop of PhD graduates of the University of Nairobi in December 2023.
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As the professor class has shrunk, so has the number of PhD graduates.
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Examinations help a country measure if its system of education is teaching the skills and knowledge needed to meet development goals.
Support and a sense of community are among the ways that students build academic resilience.
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Understanding the dynamics of each theme from the research will help universities to develop strategies for student support.