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Community-run schools have been touted as a model to ensure that all children go to school, even those who are hard to reach or have been left out. But, writes Ray Langsten, the model is shifting in places like Egypt and is no longer serving the right students or doing a good job of educating those who attend them.
In sub-Saharan Africa, a bovine disease known as “lung plague” causes more than US$60 million in annual losses to cattle owners and affects the livelihoods of 24 million cattle producers. Jose Perez-Casal explains how a vaccine, developed through collaboration between Kenyan and Canadian scientists, could turn the situation around.
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Community schools reach otherwise unschooled children.
Ray Langsten
Ray Langsten, American University in Cairo
Community-based education, or community schools, are alternative education models that lack school infrastructure.
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Business + Economy
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Jose Perez-Casal, University of Saskatchewan
Lung plague attacks cattle causing disease and death, and more than US$60 million in losses annually in Africa. A new vaccine could prevent the disease.
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Politics + Society
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Christine Jeske, Wheaton College (Illinois)
While pay and profit are not irrelevant in employees’ work decisions, there are other motivators.
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Science + Technology
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Robert Blumenschine, University of the Witwatersrand
Palaeontological finds offer a compelling and profound way to think about our place in nature.
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From our international editions
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Jessica Gabel Cino, Georgia State University
It would be great to know for sure when someone is lying and when someone is telling the truth. But no technology that purports to do so is foolproof.
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Andrew Michael Cooke, Bangor University
How to win the Ryder Cup...with a little help from neuroscience.
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Jim Uttley, University of Leeds; Aleksandra Liachenko Monteiro, University of Sheffield; Steve Fotios, University of Sheffield
Street lighting may not actually reduce crime – but it can make people feel safer at night.
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