Child labour in Tanzania is driven largely by poverty. More must be done to keep children in school so their skills aren’t lost to the economy in the long run.
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There are many layers of complexity at play in the way that South African schools use and teach languages.
University graduates have the power to enable dignified lives for others in a society. What skills and qualities do they need for this to happen?
Introducing game-like elements into classrooms can boost student motivation and learning.
Education can be a powerful tool to stop the practice of child marriage. It empowers girls, and their success can ultimately boost their communities.
Many medical disciplines have started encouraging their students to embrace lessons from the arts and humanities. Physiotherapy is lagging behind.
South Africa’s educational policies and curricula tend to be biased against rural lifestyles - even though nearly 20 million people live in the country’s rural areas.
A curriculum can’t be decolonised by simply removing content. This denies students the chance to participate in local policy debates and the global job market. A more nuanced approach is needed.
University students in South Africa tend to fall into a “single story” trap, ignoring other individuals’ experiences to construct an understanding of the country’s political realities.
African academics should be leading the pack when it comes to producing research and information about the continent. So what’s holding them back?
There are two concepts in education theory – the social construction of knowledge and the notion of self-efficacy for development –- that could help build a true democracy.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What’s holding them back?
Universities stand to benefit enormously if excellent teachers are celebrated and given the chance to share their skills, and if they have the power to really change their institutions.
Employers still love a smart MBA graduate, but business schools are increasingly accused of not meeting the needs of a changing market.
Coming to understand students’ individual stories allows lecturers to guide, mentor and support them.
Higher education has done as well as could have been expected from the 2016 Budget, given South Africa’s current economic circumstances.
Quality assurance programmes tend to ignore context - which means important elements of teaching and learning are overlooked and universities miss out on a real chance to improve their practices.
Youngsters who grow up in a culture of anger and violence may be drawn to gangs, and schools then become fertile grounds for criminal behaviour.
In future, universities will only survive if they can produce knowledge fast and innovate. This will require transformational leadership that gets everyone involved.
Kenya’s authorities are trying to deal with declining standards at the country’s public and private universities. This will require a strengthened regulatory framework and hard work from institutions.
Art education is an important vehicle for all sorts of learning and knowledge acquisition. Teachers must be taught not to view it as a “second class” subject.
There was nothing in President Zuma’s speech to suggest that he’d really listened to people’s concerns about higher education - nor to suggest that any solutions will be forthcoming.
Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school’s broader community work together.
Social change has its own dynamic. This makes it an unpredictable, uncontrollable and unknowable force – one with often unintended consequences.
Children living with albinism are very vulnerable to attack, kidnapping, mutilation and murder. In Tanzania, fear is keeping many children away from school and costing them an education.