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Much has been, and is being, said about the preparedness of the authorities, and the education sector in general, when it has come to going back to school after a...
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A change of systems will not fix the culture of inept institutions nor suddenly reform the bad faith actors who fancy themselves ‘king makers’ looking to further entrench and enrich...
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Living away from home immersed in another culture, the sights, the sounds and the language, one feels a sense of belonging. You left your home country with a tidal wave...
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So the five year cycle goes: “beg, borrow and buy” votes to get into Majlis, all in the name of representing the people and the interests of the nation, and...
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In the 1995 film ‘An American President’, fictional president Andrew Shepard, played by Michael Douglas, says of politics and elections;
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Since the 1990s, many educational systems worldwide have been inundated by neoliberal ideas such as marketisation, league tables, testing, accountability, standardisation, and student achievement. Educators and educational leaders have been...
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The Maldives achieved five out of eight Millennium Development Goals by 2010, including the achievement of universal primary education. An adult literacy rate of over 98 percent has been achieved...
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Recent developments pertaining to Lakshadweep, an archipelago of 36 tiny islands 490 km off the coast of the South Indian state of Kerala, have thrown light on the strategic significance...
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On 7 June 2021, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid, was elected President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Maldives’ candidate won against a...
