The Australian approach to lifting standards of schooling has a crucial blind spot: the role of the people and communities outside school in supporting students.
The plans to keep schools open through the wave of Omicron infections fail to take into account the particular challenges of staffing rural and remote schools.
Remarkable things happen when academics from the global South work together.
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It’s important to create spaces where the global South’s problems can be presented, debated and solutions developed - including some that can be applied in similar economies.
Cuba places a great deal of value on cultural activities for its school children.
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology