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During times when incomes aren’t rising fast enough to keep up with increases in the cost of living, the temptation can be high to take advantage of offers for a quick buck. And various schemes offering opportunities for making easy money have been a recurring feature of humanity since the advent of money. Social media has magnified these schemes which may appear attractive when one’s income can’t meet one’s needs. Bomikazi Zeka and Abdul Latif Alhassan share
five tell-tale signs of “get-rich-quick” schemes to watch out for.
South Africa’s children have again scored poorly in an international standardised test of literacy: 81% of the country’s grade 4s, who are on average 10 years old, cannot read for meaning. Catherine Kell, Xolisa Guzula, Carolyn McKinney and Robyn Tyler write that the literacy crisis tends to be presented as occurring in a vacuum. But children’s lives outside the classroom play a part too. The authors suggest five ways to help improve reading skills.
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Bomikazi Zeka, University of Canberra; Abdul Latif Alhassan, University of Cape Town
Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.
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Catherine Kell, University of Cape Town; Carolyn McKinney, University of Cape Town; Robyn Tyler, University of the Western Cape; Xolisa Guzula, University of Cape Town
These interventions have the potential to boost South African children’s literacy.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Seth Schindler, University of Manchester; Tom Gillespie, University of Manchester
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Daniel Banini, Eastern Illinois University
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