whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...nt commentary on how best to address development needs. The only problem is that if Oprah merely sponsored students, there wouldn\'t be any place to tack the plaque with her name on it....

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...efore the advent of cheap computing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got a first-class education remotely. If so...

3. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tprint to fit in that niche. There's been talk that Facebook (which was originally only for college students; as "walled garden" as you can get) is overtaking LinkedIn as the premi...

4. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...udent board members are meant to consider the best interests of the University but they were instructed, by students, to vote in specific ways on certain issues," continues King. In other words,...

5. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ge their own circumstances. Women who remain in abusive relationships, children who are bullied at school, students who don't study because they believe they're going to fail anyway – i...

6. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...ax on cheap imports would be a good idea.” Perhaps they too have a vibrant development sector.  Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show.  Rural Poland plays...

7. Should charitable organisations be allowed to compete with businesses?
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...r the not-too-far-fetched example of a development organisation specialising in sewing training selling its students stock against past graduates of its school.  But at much lower prices, since t...

8. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... to do well, or they perform at the same mediocre level as other teachers, or they emigrate.  The best students congregate at private / independent schools and the overall standard for the poores...

9. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
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...ch organisation in Munich declares not.  By analysing data from a study involving tens of thousands of students in 31 countries organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop...

10. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n South Africa.  The CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg offers a "free" business degree to its students.  It is difficult to assess how much tuition costs when so much is donated (in...

11. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
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...ng parents flee poorer schools which become ever poorer and less able to serve the needs of their remaining students.  Governments around the world have responded by offering perverse incentives...

12. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
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... of matriculants passed. Now to 2006, and the class of Madiba (so called because they are the first crop of students to have started school after the 1994 democratic transition).  This year stude...

13. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...xcise tax on cheap imports would be a good idea.” Perhaps they too have a vibrant development sector. Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show. Rural Poland plays host ...