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A different route to reducing university drop-out rates

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageA 3rd year chemical engineering student from the University of Cape Town in a vacation "boot camp" to help with supplementary exam preparation.Jennifer Case

South Africa is in the grip of a skills shortage. Among the top ten skills needed to boost its lacklustre economic growth are civil, mechanical, industrial and chemical engineers.

But of the...

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Global standards miss the nuance in local child labour

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imageChildren's labour entails both benefits and harm that should be assessed at the local levelReuters/Finbarr O'Reilly

Images of children working in hazardous and abusive conditions naturally provoke strong emotional reactions. For this reason, measures designed to stop children from working, and make sure they go to school, attract little opposition...

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The African Union lacks a coherent plan to fight terrorism

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imageMany Nigerians have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Terrorism is on the increase in Africa. Between 1995 and 2001, the continent was the fifth most-targeted region after Latin America, Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East for acts of terrorism. Since then things have taken a sharp turn for the worse.

In West...

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  1. Bigger breaks for smaller business will come at a cost
  2. Budget brief: where is the new help for domestic violence?
  3. Arms length? Forget it – it's back to the Menzies era for arts funding
  4. Budget infrastructure spending serves mainly political goals
  5. Budget news: Australian Government ends support for TC
  6. Budget brief: what's in the budget on climate change and renewables?
  7. Federal Budget 2015 – environment experts react
  8. Debt disaster is so last year – now Hockey's giving a helping hand
  9. This budget won't fix Australia's limping economy. It shouldn't try
  10. Not all corporate tax avoiders will be snared by new rules
  11. Missed opportunities on coherent pension policy reform
  12. The rise and rise of the 2015 El Niño
  13. Sexism in science: one step back, two steps forward
  14. ATAR found to be a poor predictor of how well students do at uni
  15. 21st-century character designs reflect our concerns, as always
  16. There's money for the arts in the budget – but with strings attached
  17. Consent to take part in research needs to be much easier
  18. Many feared dead as second quake hits devastated Nepal
  19. Why sales of bottled water overtaking soft drinks is nothing to celebrate
  20. Best-ever election for women gives Britain a more balanced cabinet
  21. In defence of pollsters: they never said they could predict the UK election
  22. How Greece's liquidity problem could cause an unplanned Grexit
  23. Venice Biennale 2015: the Arsenale stuffed with guns, stripped of hope
  24. How chaos in Libya spawned a security nightmare in the Mediterranean
  25. Is Devo Manc a good model for English devolution? Almost ...
  26. The battles ahead for Nicky Morgan and Jo Johnson's Tory education reforms
  27. Tom Devine: is this the end of the Union as we know it?
  28. Budget brief: how does science and research funding fare?
  29. INFOGRAPHIC: The budget winners and losers
  30. We need to protect the whistleblowers who save our skins but pay the price
  31. Education budget can’t shake the Gonski ghost
  32. Federal Budget 2015: health experts react
  33. Budget brief: will I lose my age pension?
  34. Budget brief: are there any surprises for small business, including sole traders?
  35. Path to budget surplus built on shifting foundations
  36. Federal Budget 2015: Small business wins in grab for confidence
  37. Research shows nurses are short on time, not compassion
  38. How smart is it to allow students to use mobile phones at school?
  39. How Bill Simmons' innovative style led to his rise – and fall – at ESPN
  40. Stormwater innovations mean cities don't just flush rainwater down the drain
  41. The Confederacy’s disastrous guerrilla war
  42. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to decipher the unemployment rate
  43. Rising CO2 levels are changing how fast forests cycle water
  44. After last year's 'crazy brave' comes the hangover budget
  45. INFOGRAPHIC: 2015 federal budget at a glance
  46. Why abolishing the Human Rights Act will be a rough ride for Michael Gove
  47. How we discovered the three revolutions of American pop
  48. Why we musn't assume smoking and drinking only leads to certain cancers
  49. How we recreated the early universe in the laboratory
  50. Cornwall and Yorkshire show regional identities run deep in England, too

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