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Learning on Rhodes' Ranch

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 6 December 2011 - Categories: Africa, Education

Sitting down for dinner in the Bulawayo Club (est. 1895) in southern Zimbabwe, one feels that one has been transported back to a gentlemen's club in fin de siècle Mayfair. One is immersed amongst Greek colonnades, oil portraits of colonial …

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Education kicking out poverty

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 18 November 2011 - Categories: Africa, Education

In a repeat of last year's 'Textbooks For All', I found myself once more at a huge logistics warehouse on the edge of Harare, in a marquee filled with dignitaries to launch the second phase of the Education Transition Fund …

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Let Zimbabwe's children bloom

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 10 October 2011 - Categories: Africa, Education

My first year in Zimbabwe has flown by and spring is once more in the air as the jacaranda trees lining Harare's streets burst into bloom once more, in a riot of regal purple. The beauty of the garden suburbs is …

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Education in the time of AIDS and cholera

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 13 December 2010 - Categories: Africa, Education, Health

Requests from visiting colleagues to see our work on the ground is a regular occurrence. These trips are not just useful for the visitors, but they also allow me to investigate the programmes I support and see the impact of broader development …

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