with Eric Hanushekvia Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
If one were to say that 2009 represents a historic year in understanding quality in South Africa's schools, most education commentators would probably not know what you were talking about...
with Stephen Habervia National (United Arab Emirates)
Friday, September 11, 2009
The road to Sangachal is a Potemkin motorway: four to six lanes, neatly demarcated and newly paved, with panoramic views of the Caspian Sea, the hills that rise above Baku and the Bibi Heybat Mosque, which was built in 1257, destroyed by Stalin in 1934 and rebuilt in 1998...
The G-20, an assemblage of heads of state and central bankers meeting here next month, deals with abstract billions in capital in the hopes its policies will benefit flesh-and-blood billions of people...
Americans are being urged to worry about the nation spending 17% of its gross domestic product each year on health care—a higher percentage than any other country...
President Obama makes his first major policy speech on Africa today to a host nation that is far from the continent's most economically or politically powerful...
BEING text of a paper presented by Dr. Erastus B.O. Akingbola, OON, FCIB, Group Chief Executive, Intercontinental Bank Plc and President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, at the Nigerian Institute for Training & Development Human Resource Development Forum, Lagos, July, 2, 2009...
