No one is born confident. You acquire self-confidence through years of practice and learning, writes Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old Belizean from Belize City. In the highly competitive world we live in the importance of self confidence cannot be exaggerated enough. Ordinary men and women who were once stuck in minimum wage jobs have today become multimillion …
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Commonwealth Correspondent’s Environmental Passion Earns Her Erasmus Mundus Award
August 31A Commonwealth Correspondent from Ghana has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master …
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Why Is Empowering the Boy Child So Controversial?
May 19by Evans Ijakaa “Boys are very easy to raise, by the way.” No, they are not. What people often …
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Schoolchildren need a solid foundation in financial literacy to equip them with life’s challenges, writes Undwye Jean-Baptiste, a 25-year-old from Bridgetown, Barbados. An article I read in my local newspaper a few days ago sparked my interest. It stated that a UNESCO official had criticsed the educational system in the Caribbean as being prehistoric and …
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Last week saw the launch of a report by Pakistan’s March for Education campaign group. The publication follows the setting up of an Education Task Force by the government. Nosheen Abbas from Islamabad reports. They’re all types of emergencies in practically every part of Pakistan. No, really, we’ve got it all – ranging from floods, political strife, international image problems, internal …
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Last week saw the launch of a report by Pakistan’s March for Education campaign group. The publication follows the setting up of an Education Task Force by the government. Nosheen Abbas from Islamabad reports. They’re all types of emergencies in practically every part of Pakistan. No, really, we’ve got it all – ranging from floods, political strife, international image problems, internal …
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Spare a thought for the low-skilled workers who work in desperately hard conditions for little pay and whose lives could have been very different if only for a better education, writes Peter Njoroge from Banana, Kiambu in Kenya. The title for this post is both literal and metaphoric. My blood brother, so dear to me and my …
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Spare a thought for the low-skilled workers who work in desperately hard conditions for little pay and whose lives could have been very different if only for a better education, writes Peter Njoroge from Banana, Kiambu in Kenya. The title for this post is both literal and metaphoric. My blood brother, so dear to me and my …
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The importance of a good education cannot be neglected. In today’s world, it has never been more vital, writes 16-year-old Luke Van Roevan from Melbourne, Australia. Education has an immense impact on human society. You can safely assume that a person is not ‘complete’ till they have been educated. Education has always been and will …
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University of Buea, Cameroon, July 26-30 2010 With support from the Association of Commonwealth Universities Sixty years after its formation, the Commonwealth still brings together a quarter of the world’s population. In November, Heads of Government from the 54 member states will meet in Perth, Australia, to receive a major report from an independent Eminent Persons …
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Avid reading offers not only mental stimulation but can ensure freedom from poverty, superstition, loneliness and ignorance, writes 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Craig Dixon from Jamaica. There are numerous objects of demarcation between people who read, reason and write and those who do not. Oftentimes these objects distinguish between those who live in residential areas and …
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Avid reading offers not only mental stimulation but can ensure freedom from poverty, superstition, loneliness and ignorance, writes 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Craig Dixon from Jamaica. There are numerous objects of demarcation between people who read, reason and write and those who do not. Oftentimes these objects distinguish between those who live in residential areas and …
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