South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget was awaited with bated breath amid rising political tensions, increasingly violent student protests and the threat of a credit downgrade.
Jeffrey Sachs: ‘we need to press governments to follow through on what they’ve promised’.
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Most people have a very limited understanding of what engineers do – and we engineers don’t do a good job of expanding that view. But if we did, the benefits could be impressive.
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
Some 478 courses, including one in hairdressing creative leadership, will not be subsidised from 2017.
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The lack of suicide training provided in nursing programmes can leave nurses feeling like there is a risk of further harm to the patient.
A child holds a pen as children play at a primary school in Burundi: access to education has improved but other challenges remain.
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It is more important than ever that the locus of control of education development is driven by African public intellectuals who can speak truth to power
Four-year-old Stacey Musimbi sits inside a specialised early childhood deaf unit programme in Nairobi.
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Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, African Population and Health Research Center e Njora Hungi, African Population and Health Research Center
Early childhood education services have proliferated in the public and private sectors. But many children who attend these preschool centres do not receive quality services.
Chinese graduates celebrate. A university degree is a passport to a better life
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There is no such thing as ‘free higher education’. Someone has to pay. And the reality is that low, or no tuition fees benefit middle and high-income families.
One of the newest trends in education is teaching students how to develop grit. But what’s even meant by ‘grit’? And what if grit means something different for everyone?
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is calling for a new education funding model to replace Gonski.
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Instead of a needs-based model, we ended up with an inconsistent patchwork of approaches across Australian states and territories that protected the vested interests of non-government schools.
By 2020, the cybersecurity industry will need 1.5 million more workers than will be qualified for jobs. What’s the solution? Getting high school and college students excited about the industry.
Historical data for Australia shows young people have fared better than their global counterparts in terms of economic opportunity but this masks a growing disparity among youth.
Teachers can help parents support their child’s maths learning at home.
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Sue Thomson, Australian Council for Educational Research e Peter Goss, Grattan Institute
The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement. Is that true?
Interactions with Turkana families suggest the skills acquired by children from schools are not in harmony with their families’ everyday socioeconomic survival practices.
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