How to approach the revolution in scholarly publishing: By opening up academic journals to a broader audience, everyone benefits. ShutterstockThere is a digital revolution underway. It’s changing how many things are done – including scholarly publishing. The way that academic research is published, and its availability, has shifted over time. Academic and scholarly journals … [Read more...] about How to approach the revolution in scholarly publishing | The Conversation
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Entrepreneurship funds in Africa: distinguishing the good from the bad | The Conversation
Entrepreneurship funds in Africa: distinguishing the good from the bad: Access to finance is consistently listed as the biggest obstacle for start-ups Africa. Wikimedia Commons/The Wot-If? TrustEntrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa’s unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent’s young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed. Another third are in … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship funds in Africa: distinguishing the good from the bad | The Conversation
Red Sea stone tool find hints at hominins’ possible route out of Africa | The Conversation
Red Sea stone tool find hints at hominins' possible route out of Africa: Representative stone tools (handaxes) recorded in the study area. Author SuppliedAfrica is the birthplace of humanity. From the time of our lineage’s split from the chimpanzee line around 7 million years ago, the continent has remained the primary homeland for successive hominin species – of which modern … [Read more...] about Red Sea stone tool find hints at hominins’ possible route out of Africa | The Conversation
How we are developing immunotherapies relevant to Africa | The Conversation
How we are developing immunotherapies relevant to Africa: For developing countries in Africa immunotherapy solutions is important given the high cost of cancer drugs. ShutterstockThe exorbitant costs of cancer drugs make it difficult for public and private health care systems to provide the latest treatments to patients. If this trend continues it will become increasingly … [Read more...] about How we are developing immunotherapies relevant to Africa | The Conversation
Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens | The Conversation
Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens: Johannesburg's economic hub, Sandton, lies right next to the sprawling and extremely poor Alexandra township. Paul Saad/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThis is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses. It’s … [Read more...] about Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens | The Conversation
