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Africa

World Football

Yesterday at 19:50 PM, via BBC News

John Bennett, Isaac Fanin and guests look ahead to Mali v Senegal and Cameroon v Morocco.

Education

Charity watchdog opens statutory inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of business arm

Today at 16:53 PM, via The Guardian

Bosses at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver were awarded million-pound bonuses after sale to private firm

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The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of its qualification awards business to a private company last year.

The announcement has been made after the Guardian revealed last month how City & Guilds bosses were handed...

Education

Ghana: Digital Technologies Integration in Ghana Education

Today at 16:10 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] A Professor of Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Issifu Yinda, has partly attributed the slow integration of digital technologies in Ghana’s education system to the lack of qualified trainers, who can effectively combine technology and information literacy in teacher training.

Education

Ghana: Uphold Discipline, Sound Governance, Quality Teaching – Edu Minister

Today at 16:10 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has inaugurated four governing councils of four Colleges of Education, charging them to uphold discipline, sound governance, and quality teaching to safeguard the future of the country’s education system.

Science/Tech

Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?

Today at 16:59 PM, via Slashdot

Abstract of a paper on NBER: We construct an international panel data set comprising three distinct yet plausible measures of government indebtedness: the debt-to-GDP, the interest-to-GDP, and the debt-to-equity ratios. Our analysis reveals that these measures yield differing conclusions about recent trends in government indebtedness. While the debt-to-GDP ratio has reached historically high...

Science/Tech

Could egg defect breakthrough help stop the ‘horrible IVF rollercoaster’?

Today at 16:23 PM, via The Guardian

Results of research offer hope to older women – but it will be several years at least before technique is approved

Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates

It is a rollercoaster of emotional extremes that will be familiar to many who have gone through IVF treatment: hope and joy turns to despair and back again. This is especially true for women over 35, the age...