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Fredrick Obura |
February 25th 2021 at 03:30:00 GMT +0300
Usiku Games, a Kenyan mobile games company, has unveiled edutainment games to help primary school-aged children improve their learning skills, especially in Math and English languages.
The mobile web-based platform dubbed “Tizi Games” are designed to be fun and entertaining as they help educate the pupils. Each game is designed around a particular subject based on the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) developed by the KICD.
According to Jay Shapiro, CEO of Usiku Games, Tizi Games help improve children s skills in memory, concentration, and development of knowledge: At Usiku Games, we create, design, and produce edutainment content to help today s children to learn in ways that are fun and resonate with them. We have specialised in developing games that will improve skills, focus and cognitive reasoning. Our games are designed to be easy to learn, but still challenging and fun.
Twelve Penn State students to engage in international environmental research
Twelve Penn State students will have the chance to participate in a field study course in Romania this summer.
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Penn State CHANCE Romania program seeking applicants
February 23, 2021
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. Along with the University of Bucharest, U.S. Department of State and Penn State Global Programs, the Penn State Lehigh Valley CHANCE program is offering a hands-on opportunity through its most transformative and engaging international short-term study-abroad program to date, CHANCE Romania 2021.
In this unique and groundbreaking binational course series, Penn State students will partner with students from the University of Bucharest, Romania, via online and in-the-field formats to develop their skills in navigating complex, inter-disciplinary and global challenges related to water issues facing the Danube River.
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Recommendations will help Government of Canada meet poverty reduction target
GATINEAU, QC, Feb. 24, 2021 /CNW/ - In 2018, the Government of Canada made a historic commitment toward reducing poverty through
Opportunity for All – Canada s First Poverty Reduction Strategy. Yesterday, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Ahmed Hussen, tabled in Parliament the first report on Canada s progress, entitled
Building Understanding: The First Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty.
The Poverty Reduction Strategy included concrete poverty reduction targets and established Canada s Official Poverty Line to measure poverty and track progress toward the targets. It also created the National Advisory Council on Poverty to provide independent advice to the Government on poverty reduction; to submit an annual report on the progress achieved toward the Government s poverty reduction goals; and to continue a dialogue with Canadians on pover