31 August 2010 | South Africa | Vincent Porfirio
A good friend and fellow researcher from my time in South Africa just emailed me the following article regarding the wide-spread teacher strikes happening in SA as of now.
See link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-31/south-african-teachers-strike-shuts-schools-compounds-educational-crisis.html
BBC News is also covering the story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11136354
With teachers and nurses on strike, schools and hospitals have been in disarray (BBC News).
This is terrible news [...]
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25 August 2010 | South Africa, Teach for America, UN | Vincent Porfirio
According to a news article by Doug Gross posted on CNN.com a new yearlong study of 60,000 US cellphone users across the nation provides some insightful data on the use of mobile technology state-side. The link is provided below along with the full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/08/25/nielsen.phone.use/index.html?hpt=T2
(CNN) — Women text and talk on their mobile phones more than [...]
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10 August 2010 | South Africa, Trinidad: Gender Studies | Vincent Porfirio
Wanted to share this wonderfully insightful article from the BBC. Researchers have released a report that links the human brain’s functions to that of the workings of the interweb (world wide web). The article also points out the this new theory of how the brain works (sends messages in loops rather than lines, data transfer [...]
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