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EducationFeaturedNational

Four reasons why physically punishing school children doesn’t work

by lisadtinsley December 21, 2021

Conrad Hughes – Research Associate at the University of Geneva’s department of Education and Psychology; Campus and Secondary Principal at the International School of Geneva’s La Grande Boissière, Université de…

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Herbal skin treatments in Uganda get an important scientific boost

by lisadtinsley December 15, 2021

Jane Namukobe – Lecturer, Makerere University Herbal medicine is used all over the world, and Uganda is no exception. Figures suggest that up to 79% of the East African nation’s population favours…

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December 15, 2021 0 comment 208 views
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One virus, two countries: how the misuse of science compounded South Africa’s COVID crisis

by lisadtinsley December 13, 2021

Steven Friedman – Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg Now, and in the past, “following the science” on COVID-19 has landed South Africa in trouble. This is not an…

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December 13, 2021 0 comment 228 views
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African marine rules favour big industry, leaving small-scale fishers in the lurch

by lisadtinsley December 3, 2021

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood – Lecturer, University of St Andrews Edward H. Allison – Director of Science and Research, WorldFish, CGIAR System Organization The African marine fisheries sector is huge. It’s valued…

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December 3, 2021 0 comment 202 views
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How African thinkers of the 1980s fed into today’s inequality debates

by lisadtinsley December 2, 2021

Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon – PhD Candidate, Aarhus University Inequality is an issue that arises everywhere in the world today. Recent studies by economists such as Branko Milanovic and Thomas Piketty have looked at trends…

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December 2, 2021 0 comment 199 views
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Chief Keef changed the music industry – and it’s time he gets the credit he deserves

by lisadtinsley November 30, 2021

Jabari Evans – Assistant Professor of Race and Media, University of South Carolina Before he was arrested in December 2011, Chief Keef was a 16-year-old budding rap star. He’d released…

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November 30, 2021 0 comment 377 views
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The Benefits of Urban Gardens in Small Spaces

by lisadtinsley November 14, 2021

Lisa D. Tinsley Urban gardens are transforming cities around the world. Urban and peri-urban farms supply food to about 700 million city dwellers — one-quarter of the world’s urban population…

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R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common in workplace abuse – that enabled crimes to go on for decades

by lisadtinsley November 1, 2021

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges on Sept 27, 2021, having been exposed as the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit girls, boys and…

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November 1, 2021 0 comment 263 views
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Why student absences aren’t the real problem in America’s ‘attendance crisis’

by lisadtinsley October 31, 2021

Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year and are considered chronically absent. Education officials have lamented that all this missed instruction has for years constituted…

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How multicultural churches in South Africa are breaking down race barriers

by lisadtinsley October 29, 2021

Race is an issue that’s always simmering below the surface in South Africa. One of the ugliest aspects of the recent wave of looting and violence was the killing of people based on their…

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