By Pearl S. Kyei, Senior lecturer, University of Ghana
Across Ghana, thousands of children start formal schooling every year full of promise. Yet many struggle to master basic reading and numeracy skills in the early grades.
Six in ten Primary 4 pupils in Ghana perform below basic proficiency in mathematics and half fall short in English. Primary 4 pupils are students in the fourth year of primary school, usually about 10 years old.
As researchers studying what helps young children learn better in Ghana, we wanted…
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By Shaelyn Strachan, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba
When runners ‘hit the wall,’ they experience sudden debilitating fatigue, difficulty keeping pace, and often, a shift away from their goal pace towards surviving until the finish line.
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By Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
A marriage ends unexpectedly and a woman realises that all she worked for meant denying her self and surpressing her true identity.
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By Karina Corada-Pérez, Research Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London
Warm sticky nights are becoming more and more common in the UK.
Climate change is raising temperatures, but one factor that adds to that is often ignored. Walk down a city street and you see what would have been front gardens a decade or so ago have now been tarmacked over and turned into driveways.
Individually these changes might seem…
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By Philip Brown, Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
Just weeks before he was elected as Greater Manchester’s first metro-mayor in 2017, I interviewed Andy Burnham for The Conversation.
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By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
Pollsters recently asked a sample of adults in Britain who they would prefer to win the byelection in Clacton. The rather surprising answers showed that 33% favoured “comedy” candidate Count Binface, compared to just 21% who would back Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
The resignation earlier this month of Farage as MP for the Essex seat triggered the byelection on August 13. According to the…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that more than 500 people are feared dead after two boats carrying mostly Rohingya refugees capsized off the coast of Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “These reports are a heartbreaking reminder of the increasingly desperate choices facing many Rohingya today. People do not risk their lives at sea unless […] The post Myanmar: Reported sea tragedies highlight desperate choices facing Rohingya appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Aaron Walayat, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
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By Elizabeth Canales, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
US shoppers are seeing higher fruit and vegetable prices thanks to trade tensions, extreme weather and geopolitics, just to name a few reasons.
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By Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
Bill Gates, Jensen Huang and many of today’s tech titans have two things in common with Gilded Age robber barons like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. After playing a role in propelling the U.S. economy to new heights, they established massive foundations. The foundations are usually designed…
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