Primary school can be demanding and hard to follow for children without previous experience of learning in a classroom setting.
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Research shows that children who had preschool education were less likely to drop out of school and have higher levels of literacy when they reach adolescence.
The “marketisation” of universities means students are viewed as consumers.
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Midlevel health workers can provide diagnostic and therapeutic services with lower entry qualification requirements and shorter training periods than doctors.
A female Aedes albopictus mosquito feeding on a human host.
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While no deaths have been reported in Ethiopia so far, outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease spread rapidly and have severe impacts on public health.
Slum residents were said to do less exercise because of cheap motorcycle taxis.
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There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
Digital technology is being used to improve rice processing in Nigeria.
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Our research shows how a large scale renewable energy project can be plagued by many of the same troubling impacts on local communities as oil and extractive industries.
Data delivered over the cloud can do things like help farmers make planting decisions.
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