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Ugandan researchers challenge how Africans think

Ugandan researchers challenge how Africans think

Eng Kirunda A group of Ugandan thinkers is proposing an unusual argument about Africa’s future: that the continent’s greatest challenge may not simply be politics, corruption or economics, but the way people are trained to think from childhood. In a new paper titled Fourth Heritage Attention is All You Need, researchers from the Fourth Heritage Initiative argue that many Africans …

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Researchers push gov’t to embrace data-driven education planning

Researchers push govt to embrace data driven education planning

Education researchers have urged the government to institutionalise routine termly data collection for decision-making, and to promote data-driven planning and resource allocation in order to improve efficiency in the education sector. The clarion call was made during the closure of a two-year project aimed at scaling up data use in the education sector. With funding from the International Development Research …

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