Asking questions can create new ways of teaching and learning.
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It’s vital for academics in South Africa to start asking deep questions that examine what decolonialism could look like in their teaching.
Hunger is a daily reality across large parts of Africa.
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It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
In a technology-driven and interconnected world, the speed of creation and dissemination of knowledge makes it even more central to economic growth that it was fifty years ago.
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The Indonesian public sector has some challenges to overcome to be able to design better policies.
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Research is changing how artists contribute to the world’s knowledge base.
When teachers collaborate, they learn from each other.
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The need for qualified teachers is a major challenge in a number of African countries.
Swings can be educational tools.
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The way science is currently taught in southern African countries ignores the fact that the whole environment is a laboratory for learning.
Research suggests that women enterprises in Tanzania are shy to take up business loans.
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Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.
Australian scientists were in the spotlight at the 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.
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The 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners include astrophysicist and science communicator Alan Duffy and the citizen science app QuestaGame.
Emmerson Mnangagwa being sworn-in as the second president of Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe’s new president promised to deliver the country citizens want but the nation remains on edge.
A supporter of Uhuru Kenyatta after the Kenyan president’s ICC charges were dropped in December, 2014.
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As transitional justice efforts have become more widespread, their mandates have also become increasingly ambitious.
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Under representation of women in the science and engineering career fields is a result of poor work life balance.
The lies most people tell on dating apps do serve a purpose.
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Researchers analyzed troves of messages sent between matches and found that the fibs people tell are usually rational ones that serve a purpose.
Used once and done.
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Research is yielding strategies for making plastics greener and more sustainable. But without support as they scale up, new versions will struggle to compete with well-established synthetic plastics.
Congolese women march to government offices in the Bunia, Eastern DRC to mark International Women’s Day.
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Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
African-Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies.
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African-Americans are severely underrepresented in genetics and neuroscience research. That could leave the treatments of the future out of their reach.
Large proportions of regular internet gamblers use offshore sites.
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For online gamblers, there are many attractions to offshore sights, so governments must focus on arming consumers with better knowledge about its risk.
This sign could be interpreted literally.
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Data and statistical analysis were used to find an association - if any - between extreme weather conditions and crime in South Africa’s capital.
Simon Kingori, a survivor of the 1998 bomb blast at the US embassy in Nairobi prays at the memorial park in the city.
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Two decades after terrorists bombed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya has implemented a slew of measures to counter terrorism.
‘Clotted’ by Eli Moore reveals microscopic details of red blood cells in a clot, and was the winning entry in the 2018 UniSA Images of Research competition.
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Images taken out of a research context and shared with the public offer a way to connect scientists with the broader world – and vice versa. These photos are stunning examples.
A Togolese opposition supporter during protests over alleged electoral fraud in 2005.
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Togo illustrates the difficulty of moving away from personalised politics.