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INFLATION TAMER: Stephen Grootes: My person of the year is Lesetja Kganyago

Today at 22:32 PM, via Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick columnist Stephen Grootes believes SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago deserves to be named Person of the Year for his bold move to lower South Africa’s inflation target — an achievement set to ease the cost of living and benefit millions of South Africans for years to come.

Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Friday at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Education

Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances

Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.

The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned Downing Street and Keir...

Education

What We Know About the Brown University Shooting

Today at 14:33 PM, via New York Times

A person of interest was in custody Sunday, the day after two people were killed and nine others injured during an attack on the Rhode Island campus.

Education

Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

Today at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert

This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”.

With Ofqual preparing to launch a public...

Science/Tech

Entry-Level Tech Workers Confront an AI-Fueled Jobpocalypse

Today at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

AI “has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry,” reports Rest of World. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, “fewer than 25% have secured job offers… there’s a sense of panic on the campus.”Students at engineering colleges in India, China, Dubai, and Kenya are facing a “jobpocalypse” as artificial intelligence replaces...

Science/Tech

Polar Bears are Rewiring Their Own Genetics to Survive a Warming Climate

Today at 21:12 PM, via Slashdot

“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century,” with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,” says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain. But their research also suggests polar bears “are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive,” reports NBC News, in “the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic...

Science/Tech

America Adds 11.7 GW of New Solar Capacity in Q3 – Third Largest Quarter on Record

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

America’s solar industry “just delivered another huge quarter,” reports Electrek, “installing 11.7 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in Q3 2025. That makes it the third-largest quarter on record and pushes total solar additions this year past 30 GW…”According to the new “US Solar Market Insight Q4 2025” report from Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, 85% of all new power...

Science/Tech

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Nonprofit Code.org released its 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report this week with a state-by-state analysis of school policies complaining that “0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation.” But meanwhile, at the college level, “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in AI,” writes former college president...