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Rating agency, Fitch, expects Ghana to emerge from default on its foreign currency debt in 2024
No full textEducation in Africa: A Review, Assessment, and Recommendations
No full textEducation remains a critical driver of development across Africa, yet the sector faces numerous challenges rooted in the continent\u27s colonial past and perpetuated by current socioeconomic conditions. While significant progress has been made in increasing access to primary education, particularly through government initiatives and international support, disparities persist in secondary and tertiary education, especially among girls and marginalized communities. The quality of education remains a major concern, with issues such as teacher shortages, inadequate infrastructure, and outdated curricula hindering student performance. Additionally, the sector suffers from chronic underfunding, with many African countries failing to meet the recommended allocation of 15-20% of their national budgets to education. The inequitable distribution of resources further exacerbates the urban-rural divide, leaving rural schools under-resourced. Technological innovations offer promising solutions, particularly in remote and underserved areas, yet the digital divide remains a significant barrier. To address these challenges, the report recommends a multifaceted approach that includes increased investment in education, leveraging technology, and fostering regional cooperation. By prioritizing education in national development plans and implementing targeted interventions, African countries can improve access, quality, and equity in education, laying the foundation for a more prosperous future
Compassionate communication: Integrating trauma-informed care into speech-language pathology counseling education
No full textThis one-hour professional education session will outline trauma-informed care (TIC) as a framework for providing pre- and post-professional graduate counseling education. Instructors will provide personal examples from their counseling courses as exemplars for instruction at the Master’s and SLPD levels. The presentation will highlight trauma-informed pedagogical approaches to support and augment the instructor/student therapeutic alliance, support health and human service provider wellbeing, and enhance the client/clinician relationship. Concepts covered will include course design and rationale, ethics and scope of practice, multi-cultural issues, program evaluation, lessons learned, and future directions for counseling/TIC education
Interrogating The All-Knowing Detective Trope: Popular Memory Myths and Dismantling the Detective in Howard Engel’s Memory Book
No full textHoward Engel’s novel Memory Book (2005), written after the author’s experience of stroke, critiques crime fiction’s platitudinous handling of memory and cognition. In tracing a brief history of memory in the genre and its reliance on popularised memory myths to construct the exceptional detective figure, this article considers alternative modes of detection that disavow the detective as the epistemic centre of the text
The roles of flux-tube entropy and effective gravity in the inward plasma transport at Saturn
No full textEvolution of the flux tube instability parameters in plasma injections at saturnian magnetosphere
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