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Africa

Free education becomes Zambia’s election battleground

Today at 06:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Since 2022, Zambia has rolled out free education from primary through secondary school, boosting enrolment by over 2.3 million learners. As Hakainde Hichilema’s government seeks to entrench the policy in law, the opposition warns of overcrowded classrooms and strains on education quality

Business

South Africa heading for social unrest

Today at 17:00 PM, via BusinessTech

A state-owned company specialising in insurance for special risks such as riots has warned that South Africa is heading for social unrest.

Education

‘So shameful’: backlash as US national monuments conform to Trump’s rewrite of history

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history

Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore...

Education

Nigeria: Our Investment in Education Is Yielding Results – Governor Namadi

Today at 16:24 PM, via AllAfrica

[Premium Times] The governor made this assertion while presiding over a basic education stakeholders roundtable meeting convened to review progress, challenges, and opportunities within the basic education sub-sector, held at the Government House, Dutse, on Sunday.

Science/Tech

Fibre cancellations and downgrade penalties in South Africa

Today at 17:00 PM, via MyBroadband

South Africa’s top fibre network operators (FNOs) have widely differing policies for cancellations and downgrades, with some not charging a cent while others claw back well over R2,000 in certain cases.

Science/Tech

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor

Today at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

The American economy’s most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ a fraction of the workers — and a new analysis by the Wall Street Journal argues that this widening gap between capital and labor is the defining economic story of our time. Labor received 58% of gross domestic income in 1980; by the third quarter...

Science/Tech

NYC Private School Tuition Breaks $70,000 Milestone for Fall

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colleges, as they pass on the costs of soaring expenses including teacher salaries. From a report: Spence School, Dalton School and Nightingale-Bamford School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side are among at least seven schools where the fees now exceed that...

Health

Inside Health

Today at 12:00 PM, via BBC News

Is NHS dentistry on ‘life support’?