Education Gets a Backseat, When It's Really All That Should Matter
Lauryn Oates is a Canadian human rights activist and development worker, specializing in education in conflict zones. She is currently in Uganda working on a study examining the potential of information communications technologies for primary school teachers, with the University of British Columbia.
Five kilometres outside the town of Gulu in northern Uganda, down what barely qualifies as a road -- a long stretch of deep potholes filled with muddy water -- lies the Gulu Primary Teachers College. http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Education+equals+peace/3235723/story.html
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