Africa: AU Seeks Empirical Practices to Overcome Education Challenges in Africa

Africa: AU Seeks Empirical Practices to Overcome Education Challenges in Africa

– Addressing Africa’s learning crisis requires gathering, synthesizing, and spotlighting real, evidence-based, scalable practices that have shown success across diverse contexts in the continent, according to the African Union (AU). A Validation Workshop on Scalable Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) Practices to End Learning Poverty in Africa was heldin Addis Ababa from July 22 to…

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US official’s interview of Maxwell about Epstein ‘very productive’, lawyer says

US official’s interview of Maxwell about Epstein ‘very productive’, lawyer says

Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Watch: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer: A “good day” for his client after DOJ questioning A senior US justice department official says he will resume his questioning of Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday – after a first “very productive” first meeting on Thursday, Maxwell’s lawyer said. Pressure has…

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UP, Wits get R35m from Google to drive AI innovation

UP, Wits get R35m from Google to drive AI innovation

James Manyika, senior vice-president for research, labs, technology and society at Google. South African institutions of higher learning – the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) – have received R35 million funding from US-based internet search giant Google to drive artificial intelligence (AI) research. This, after Google announced a wave of…

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The test facing new Capitec CEO Graham Lee

The test facing new Capitec CEO Graham Lee

Newly appointed Capitec CEO Graham Lee. Image: Capitec The newly appointed CEO of South Africa’s biggest bank by customers has a unique problem on his hands. Since Capitec Bank — South Africa’s first-ever challenger bank — made its public debut 23 years ago, its shares have soared by more than 200 000%. That’s made it the…

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Africa: No more missed opportunities – Strengthening Africa-Caribbean trade and investment in an era of Global Trade Disruption

Africa: No more missed opportunities – Strengthening Africa-Caribbean trade and investment in an era of Global Trade Disruption

The share of bilateral exports between Africa and the Caribbean, despite extensive shared history, has never surpassed 6%, according to an ITC and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) study, leaving much room for growth of up to $2.1 billion within the next 5 years according to new studies. Key to this growth is adding value in…

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