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Ina Smith's Blog – October 2015 Archive (4)

Here’s one way to recover and protect Africa’s ‘lost science’

Robin Crewe, University of Pretoria

It’s been 20 years since Wayt Gibbs introduced the phrase “lost science” to the world. Writing in…

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Added by Ina Smith on October 28, 2015 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Why it's getting harder to access free, quality academic research

Leti Kleyn, University of Pretoria

Academics at South Africa’s universities increased their research output by 250% between 2000 and 2013. Taxpayers funded a great deal of that…

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Added by Ina Smith on October 28, 2015 at 9:45pm — No Comments

Opening up access to research and information isn't a luxury – it's a necessity

Children struggle to learn when they don’t have science labs and libraries. Learning becomes difficult in classrooms that are falling apart, or where children are expected to sit on the floor because they have neither desks nor chairs.…

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Added by Ina Smith on October 19, 2015 at 11:30pm — No Comments

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