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Education

Two-income households need social housing too. Here’s why

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

In a private property market where supply is restricted, increased family wealth can simply drive up the cost of suitable homes

Improvements in the education of girls is one of the most positive shifts in the developing world over the past decade. Supported by aid agencies, including Camfed and more recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, efforts to send girls to primary and...

Education

Ethiopia: Muslim Students in Axum Town Protest Against Hijab Ban

Yesterday at 11:22 AM, via AllAfrica

[Addis Standard] Muslim students in Axum town, located in the Central Zone of the Tigray region, are protesting a hijab ban that they say has barred them from attending school and violated their constitutional rights to education and religious freedom.

Education

Morocco: Chilean, Moroccan Universities Urged to Forge Closer Ties – Professor

Yesterday at 10:11 AM, via AllAfrica

[MAP] Concepcion (Chile) — Chilean and Moroccan universities are called upon to forge closer ties and intensify their exchanges on topics as diverse as climate change and equity policies, said Paulina Astroza, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for European Studies Center at the Chilean University of Concepcion.

Education

Chad: Sudan Certificate Exams Delayed, ‘Chad Blocks Refugee Students From Sitting’

Yesterday at 09:56 AM, via AllAfrica

[Dabanga] Delling / El Nahud / N’djamena — The decision to postpone Sudanese certificate exams in Delling, in the northwestern part of South Kordofan, and El Nahud in West Kordofan, was announced yesterday, citing logistical setbacks and security concerns. Originally scheduled for 28 December, the exams have been rescheduled for March 2025.

Science/Tech

Kew Gardens adds over 300 wild seeds in significant boost to living collection

Today at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

In 2024 horticulturalists made single biggest introduction of rare seeds to collection in the past decade

The Codonopsis clematidea smells like a skunk, the Tulipa toktogulica has a peculiar, elongated bulb and the Fritillaria imperialis is exceptionally tall. But to the horticulturalists who journeyed to remote alpine meadows and forests to find these rare flowers growing in the wild this...

Science/Tech

How a Retrocomputing Enthusiast Got a 30-Year-Old Clamshell Computer Online

Today at 07:34 AM, via Slashdot

It had a 4.8-inch display. Introduced in 1991, Hewlett-Packard’s (DOS-based) HP 95LX Palmtop PC — a collaboration with Lotus — was finally discontinued back in 2003. But one found its way to long-time Slashdot reader Shayde (who in November repaired a 48-year-old handheld videogame console from Mattel). “I really wanted to get this HP95LX talking to the internet at large,” they told...

Health

How They Celebrated the Holidays 250 Miles Above Earth

Friday at 00:45 AM, via New York Times

The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a reindeer from storage bags.