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Advanced British Standard: Sunak’s proposed replacement for A-levels and T-levels could make education less divisive

Advanced British Standard: Sunak’s proposed replacement for A-levels and T-levels could make education less divisive: Ground Picture/Shutterstock Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to scrap A-levels and the recently introduced T-levels. He unveiled proposals for young people to instead study the new Advanced British Standard (ABS) at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. The …

Angola’s Eduardo dos Santos: a divisive figure in life – and in death

Angola’s Eduardo dos Santos: a divisive figure in life – and in death: Jose Eduardo dos Santos. epa-efe/Tiago There is unlikely to be consensus on what José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s former longtime president who died earlier this month in Barcelona, Spain, will represent in the memory of Angolans. While he has been credited for …

The Sagrada Familia: how Gaudí’s masterpiece became a myth and a divisive political tool

The Sagrada Familia: how Gaudí’s masterpiece became a myth and a divisive political tool: The new tower stands completed, to the left, with its summit star in place. Petr Tran | Shutterstock The Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí’s Catalan masterpiece, recently celebrated the completion of the Mare de Déu tower by hoisting a giant, 12-pointed star …

Zuma: South Africa’s charismatic, yet divisive ex-president

South Africa in the news: Zuma: South Africa’s charismatic, yet divisive ex-president: South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, is returning to prison, this time for contempt after handing himself in to authorities. He was jailed for 15 …: “South Africa” – BingNews Africa: Covid-19 Death Toll Exceeds 150,000 Across …

Zuma: South Africa’s charismatic, yet divisive ex-president

South Africa in the news: Zuma: South Africa’s charismatic, yet divisive ex-president: South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, is returning to prison, this time for contempt after handing himself in to authorities. He was jailed for 15 …: “South Africa” – BingNews Ethiopia reports 72 new COVID-19 cases: Ethiopia …

History of divisive ethnic identities shows it’s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them

History of divisive ethnic identities shows it’s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them: Artificial identities created by colonialists must be deconstructed to attain unity. Jorge Fernández/GettyImages The Nigerian state, as with other African countries, is trapped in a crisis of belonging. This is expressed through identity battles which sometimes harm people of “other” …

Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020

Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020: In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 Americans. That year A.M.M. Payne, a professor of epidemiology at Yale University, wrote: In the conquest of Mount Everest anything less …