Chronic environmental noise, like cars zooming past or airplanes overhead, can make children struggle with reading comprehension and affect their memory.
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If Malawian children do not learn basic skills like reading, will this harm them in the long term? Recent evidence suggests the answer is yes – at least in terms of their health.
There is more to drawing diaspora academics back to their home countries in Africa than striking up individual relationships. Infrastructure must be fixed and institutional management must improve.
How do lesbian, bisexual and gay students experience life in a South African university residence? Sadly, with a great deal of fear.
Who is best placed to shape university teachers who are more than just technically proficient? The answer lies in academic development.
Wikipedia is frequently considered an unacceptable and unreliable source of information. It’s also constantly correcting – and isn’t that what content should strive to do?
LGBTI students at South Africa’s universities are living double lives to protect themselves from heterosexual students who ridicule and attack them.
Africa needs management graduates – but they must be taught with the continent’s specific challenges and requirements in mind.
Evidence from an 18-month-old research project suggests that making elements of the Humanities curriculum more Afro-centric boosts student engagement.
We view school science as largely a practical subject, but pupils must understand the language of science – which is often very different from every day language – if they are to excel.
Parents want to know how much they need to spend to secure a good education - and job prospects - for their children. But is it as simple as balancing your own books and ignoring the bigger picture?
The ability to think critically benefits individuals and societies. Why, then, is it so rare for critical thinking to be taught in schools?
Universities largely fail to acknowledge the way their modes of teaching and learning are culturally, socially and politically embedded. Can this be fixed?
There is a chasm between the research knowledge base about reading literacy and teachers’ classroom practices. Standardisation could be a big part of the solution.
There is a powerful African- born diaspora in North America and its members have much to offer their home continent. How should this relationship be crafted?
In South Africa’s segregated pre-apartheid state, even sex education was racialised. Christian missionaries had very different lessons for black and white children.
There are about one million children not attending formal school in Ghana, but a programme in two small villages is a reminder that learning happens outside traditional classrooms too.
South Africa is a popular destination for international students - especially those from the SADC region. Will xenophobia keep them away?
When rote learning and parroted answers replace real engagement with the material, children are bound to battle with maths. After-school homework clubs offer a different way of thinking.
Studying in Africa can be enormously valuable for American college students, but only if they’re prepared to venture beyond hotels and lecture halls to really learn about the continent.
African universities need to boost local languages onto the same exalted platform as English before they can be considered truly transformed.
South African teachers say it’s a struggle to apply their training about “inclusive education” in crowded, stressful classroom situations.
Research tells us that multilingual literacy matters. But teaching children in Africa to read in their mother tongues as a springboard to literacy in other languages can be a fraught process.
How do you overhaul a university department so it offers the best teaching, support and development for a radically changed context?
Educational technology can be a powerful tool, but it must be accompanied by new, modern teaching methods.