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Africa: The other crisis
The World Economic Forum on Africa has just concluded in Cape Town. If government leaders and captains of industry called for an eight trillion dollar bailout for the continent's beleaguered education system - like the one found for the world's biggest bankers - it went unreported.
Salim Vally, senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand's Education Policy Unit, says the education and health systems are in dire need of a bailout from the continents' governments.
"Bailing out private business is rewarding precisely those who are putting us in the present predicament. Early childhood development and good quality public education are essential for society to make any kind of development, and that is where any resources should be put," he says.
Sourced from: allAfrica
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