Focus

Peace is expensive and so fragile. Reckless initiatives and/or selfish political maneuverings can change a beautiful course of history to an ugly one.

Albert Einstein’s definition of education is: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”. With almost thirty years of independence in the bag, we ought to ask this question: is the current education system training our kids to learn facts or to think?

The above is the theme for the World Aids Day 01 December 2019 commemoration. It runs on the precept that the successful reduction of HIV/AIDS infection and the wellbeing of the already infected is dependent on the active and positive involvement of any subject community.

Using results of a mini survey in August this year, Ofer Berenstein of the University of Calgary spent time looking at how people should be encouraged to vote.

Systems that higher education institutions use to promote and reward their deserving academics can make or break the institutions’ reputations.