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Education kicking out poverty
Packing textbooks In a repeat of last year's 'Textbooks For All', I found myself once more at a huge logistics warehouse on the edge of Harare, in a marquee filled with dignitaries to launch the second...
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Learning on Rhodes’ Ranch
Open-air pre-school Sitting down for dinner in the Bulawayo Club (est. 1895) in southern Zimbabwe, one feels that one has been transported back to a gentlemen's club in fin de siècle Mayfair. One is...
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Flipping the classroom – exploiting the digital world
Trapped in my office at dusk, yet another heavy rainstorm sweeps over Harare. I make a start on this post, until the electricity fails and the room is plunged into darkness. Travel is risky: last week,...
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Start them young!
Ian back in infants class Can you remember starting school? I have vague recollections of going to St. Margaret's CoE Infant School, Durham in the early 1970s with my elder brother, when free school...
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Booming Ethiopia
Reading in crowded mud classrooms When his Boomtown Rats career was arguably past its zenith, Bob Geldof came to global prominence with Live Aid, demanding that the world focus and do something about...
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Zimbabwe – on the road to recovery?
Having spent some time in Zimbabwe (since 2010) I have certainly become relaxed and really appreciate this beautiful country. I feel relatively safe, in comparison to many other cities. Arriving at...
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Kariba ahoy!
Lake Kariba Dam wall Tuesday morning found me sitting on the proverbial 'dock of the bay', waiting for a speedboat to emerge from the calm blue horizon of Lake Kariba - a massive man-made lake formed...
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Lost generation
Grandmothers bear the burden This month sees the 19th Biennial International AIDS Conference being hosted in Washington DC - it's great to see a return to the USA of this major event, following the...
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Moving on…
Mother and Child Rock, Matobo's Park My two year secondment to the European Union (EU) Delegation in Zimbabwe has flown by and once more I am packing my bags, this time to drive up to Tanzania - to...
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Plunging into the ‘Bunge’
Mouth brooding Cichlid, Lake Malawi/Nyasa While the UK basked in the glory of Team GB's medal haul at the London 2012 Olympics, I spent a week driving up from Zimbabwe to Dar es Salaam, to start my new...
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Education kicking out poverty
Packing textbooks In a repeat of last year's 'Textbooks For All', I found myself once more at a huge logistics warehouse on the edge of Harare, in a marquee filled with dignitaries to launch the second...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learning on Rhodes’ Ranch
Open-air pre-school Sitting down for dinner in the Bulawayo Club (est. 1895) in southern Zimbabwe, one feels that one has been transported back to a gentlemen's club in fin de siècle Mayfair. One is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flipping the classroom – exploiting the digital world
Trapped in my office at dusk, yet another heavy rainstorm sweeps over Harare. I make a start on this post, until the electricity fails and the room is plunged into darkness. Travel is risky: last week,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Start them young!
Ian back in infants class Can you remember starting school? I have vague recollections of going to St. Margaret's CoE Infant School, Durham in the early 1970s with my elder brother, when free school...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Booming Ethiopia
Reading in crowded mud classrooms When his Boomtown Rats career was arguably past its zenith, Bob Geldof came to global prominence with Live Aid, demanding that the world focus and do something about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zimbabwe – on the road to recovery?
Having spent some time in Zimbabwe (since 2010) I have certainly become relaxed and really appreciate this beautiful country. I feel relatively safe, in comparison to many other cities. Arriving at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kariba ahoy!
Lake Kariba Dam wall Tuesday morning found me sitting on the proverbial 'dock of the bay', waiting for a speedboat to emerge from the calm blue horizon of Lake Kariba - a massive man-made lake formed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lost generation
Grandmothers bear the burden This month sees the 19th Biennial International AIDS Conference being hosted in Washington DC - it's great to see a return to the USA of this major event, following the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moving on…
Mother and Child Rock, Matobo's Park My two year secondment to the European Union (EU) Delegation in Zimbabwe has flown by and once more I am packing my bags, this time to drive up to Tanzania - to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Plunging into the ‘Bunge’
Mouth brooding Cichlid, Lake Malawi/Nyasa While the UK basked in the glory of Team GB's medal haul at the London 2012 Olympics, I spent a week driving up from Zimbabwe to Dar es Salaam, to start my new...
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