At the online University of the People, anyone with a high school diploma can take classes toward a degree in business administration or computer science — without standard tuition fees (though exams cost money). Founder Shai Reshef hopes that higher education is changing “from being a privilege for the few to a basic right, …
These maps from Harvard’s Africa Map project illustrate just how diverse the African continent really is, including its thousands of languages and ethnic groups, incredible biodiversity and the locations of its most urbanized areas. Source: worldmap.harvard.edu See on Scoop.it – Teaching and testing
For me, 12 Years a Slave offered too many modern parallels for the 175th birthday of Anti-Slavery International – of which I am a proud patron – to prompt anything other than renewed effort • 175 years of campaigning for freedom – in pictures A child domestic worker in Haiti. Anti-Slavery International was formed 175 …
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