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Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?
No AccessEducationFeb 2022 Authors/Editors: Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household- and school-related factors. Although these factors are unlikely to be independent, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting between schools and households might aggravate educational inequalities. To fill this gap, this article presents a novel variance decomposition, which is then applied to data from over one million children from East Africa. Results indicate that sorting accounts for around 8 percent of the test-score variance, similar in magnitude to the contribution of differences in school quality. Empirical simulations of steady-state educational inequalities reveal that policies to mitigate sorting could substantially reduce educational inequalities over the long run.…
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Winners of first ‘ICT 4 Inclusion Challenge’ in Africa announced
Winners from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa current their revolutionary answers for inclusive education Paris, France – December three, 2021 The ICT 4 Inclusion Problem (ICT4IC) aims to shape inclusive education for folks with disabilities in Africa. The 3 winning teams were being presented with their awards nowadays all through the ceremony which took put virtually, livestreamed from Atos’ headquarters in Bezons and its offices in Munich. The competitiveness saw 202 programs with above four hundred individuals from 37 nations all-around the entire world compete. The competitiveness was structured by Atos and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf for German Federal Ministry for Financial Cooperation and…
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South Africa Raises Alarm Over New Coronavirus Variant
JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s federal government is thinking of new public-well being limitations to have a quickly-spreading new variant of the coronavirus that researchers say has a superior selection of mutations that could make it additional transmissible and enable it to evade some of the immune responses induced by former an infection or vaccination. The warning from the South African researchers and the Well being Ministry, issued in a swiftly known as information briefing Thursday, prompted the Entire world Well being Group to get in touch with a meeting of experts for Friday to examine irrespective of whether to declare the new strain a “variant of concern.”
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Atos becomes 01Talent’s technology partner in Africa to identify, train and connect the digital talent of tomorrow to jobs
Praia (Cape Verde) and Paris (France) – October 6, 2021 Atos and 01Talent announce the launch of a strategic partnership to support the acceleration of the electronic transformation in Africa, by enabling the dissemination of a superior-good quality, revolutionary and inclusive instruction application on the continent. 01Talent’s ambition is to determine, practice and link one particular million superior-degree developers to the qualified planet by 2035. Through this partnership, 01Talent will be ready to draw on Atos’ technological methods to support the many jobs underway. In order to full the pan-African marketing campaign designed to determine long term electronic talent, 01Talent, in partnership with the Didier Drogba Basis and UCLG Africa…
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COVID-19 variant that was first detected in South Africa has been found in 29 states
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky talks about the COVID-19 variant during a press get in touch with Friday. Federal overall health officers are involved about the incidence of the new coronavirus pressure even though the range of COVID-19 scenarios and fatalities stays extraordinarily higher in the U.S., in accordance to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Facilities for Sickness Control and Avoidance. This is the sixth day of in excess of four,000 fatalities, she claimed, during a press get in touch with on Friday. The variant that was very first detected in South Africa has been identified in 29 states. “We must be managing just about every circumstance as a variant…
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Atos wins Google Cloud Services Partner of the Year Awards for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and for North America with Maven Wave
Paris, April six, 2020 Atos, a world wide leader in digital transformation, now introduced that it has received the 2019 Google Cloud Services Companion of the Yr Award for Europe, the Center East, and Africa and the 2019 Services Companion of the Yr Award for North The united states through Maven Wave. These awards are proof of the successful rising momentum accomplished through Atos’ official world wide partnership with Google Cloud, currently regarded final 12 months with the 2018 Google Cloud Global Breakthrough Companion of the Yr Award. This year’s awards are in recognition for Atos’ achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem in 2019 in Europe, the Center East, and…
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