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Education and global development, University of Adelaide | World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC
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Excellent article.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

And so it begins...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely parting gift from my students! Pleased to receive the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for, 'Examining Culture and Difference', the last course I taught at Western.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Courage to all who keep getting up everyday and try to make some part of what we're living a little better. Whether it's teaching, talking, writing, upholding ethics in our daily work - thank you. There's a reason that education, research, and academia are targeted in such times. A luta continua.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Forward-thinking governments invest in higher education and research. This has not been the case in much of Canada, and certainly not in Ontario and in Quebec. The two account for the highest number of universities and university students in Canada.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Not the way one wants to see academic brain gain but wow.

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"I had no canvas, no brushes, no paint. But I had to make art." "The prison uniform became my canvas, the wheel of a lighter my ruler, as I repurposed everyday objects as my tools." "I spent long stretches in solitary confinement, yet making art made me feel completely free." #myanmar

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating paper.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Development in Practice deserves a medal for making it easy for authors to submit papers. No formatting, referencing, layout, spelling restrictions. Write your paper and submit! The time we spend on this is ridiculous. All journals should follow suit. www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Is the World Bank Research Observer considered refereed publication? It's 'not traditionally peer-reviewed' but it does send papers out for review to economists (from what I understand). What would researchers put on CVs? @daveevansphd.bsky.social @hpatrinos.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The Voice of America was one of the very few radio broadcasts I could listen to when I worked in Kosovo during the early post-conflict period. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for the book launch of 'Transforming Development in Education: from coloniality to rethinking, reframing, and reimagining possibilities'. A crucial time given the widespread changes to the global education and development architecture. www.norrag.org/book-launch-... #EduSky #PoliSky

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

On March 18th, we challenge dominant global development and education narratives. 📚 Join the launch of our latest book on transforming education and development 🔗https://buff.ly/u4VpD35 #TheSouthAlsoKnows #edusky @prachisrivas.bsky.social @drmoirafaul.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Icon.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

There are no words to describe what this is.

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openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Five years to the day COVID was declared a pandemic this is where we're at: the world's richest country has signed an order to pull out of WHO, dismantled USAID and millions for vaccines, life-saving treatments for HIV/AIDS, TB, and infectious disease, overturned women's rights to safe procedures.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Two spirals, both alike in dignity, In fair Virgo where we lay our scene. From ancient light, new stars take birth, Where hydrogen gas makes spiral arms gleam. from forth the cosmic dance of stellar strife A pair of star-crossed galaxies, dance in the night An R&J take that came to me seeing this.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

Not surprising when the government has cut funding to universities for the last 15 years (at least), oh and Brexit which has meant no access to EU funds, grants, mobility, and people. It's really not rocket science.

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