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    To recognise World Youth Skills Day, tell us how learning a skill changed your life!
    Memuna Forna, Editor
    • Jul 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    To recognise World Youth Skills Day, tell us how learning a skill changed your life!

    World Youth Skills Day is held each year on the 15 July, to raise awareness about the importance of investing in youth skills development, Education, skills and jobs are rated high in people's priorities for development. In the global My World 2015 Survey, young people up to the age of 30 across all regions and education levels rated education as their number one priority, with better job opportunities being the third priority. Yet globally, youth represent 25% of the total
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    Could the MOOC movement be Africa’s tertiary education lifeline?
    Memuna Forna, Editor
    • Dec 23, 2017
    • 2 min

    Could the MOOC movement be Africa’s tertiary education lifeline?

    Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Duke, Yale for free or almost ... “Higher and tertiary education has an important role to play in fuelling and sustaining economic growth, international competitiveness, social development and poverty reduction in Sierra Leone, and as such much more attention needs to be directed at the sector to ensure quality and equitable provision,” says a World Bank Report from 2013. While we wait for FBC and Njala to get the attention they deserve, a steady revo
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