Education

Education coverage from Ashanti Ghana Wire.

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  Teenage girls may know how to prevent pregnancy – that doesn’t mean they have the power to do it

  Teenage pregnancy is often explained in simple terms. Girls are said to lack knowledge about contraception, take sexual risks or make poor choices.

  SyndicatedDeevia Bhana, Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal20 Sept 20265 min read

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  Academics in South Africa have to focus on ‘outputs’: what’s lost when other work’s not counted

  Professors Curwyn Mapaling and Nokulunga Shabalala are two Black clinical psychologists working as academics in South Africa. What started as their shared frustration with the pace of change in universities became a research programme.

  SyndicatedCurwyn Mapaling, Professor, University of Johannesburg17 Sept 20266 min read