Monthly Archives: February 2021

E-Commerce in 2021: Professional tips to fully optimize your e-commerce website and drive more organic traffic

E-Commerce in 2021: Professional tips to fully optimize your e-commerce website and drive more organic traffic

It’s 2021, and the whole world is under lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The internet has never been of a bigger value to common citizens, governments, and businesses alike. E-commerce is booming at the moment. However, driving traffic to your online store still has many challenges coming your way, and you […] … learn more→

These family climates that promote incest

These family climates that promote incest

Incest can be defined as sexual relations between very close relatives (people of the same family whose degree of kinship or alliance does not allow marriage, civil or religious). It is now banned in all societies where it represents one of the major foundations (see in particular the principle of exogamy ). The notion of incestual defined by Paul-Claude Racamier designates […] … learn more→

COVID-19 has dealt a blow to Ethiopia’s private higher education institutions

COVID-19 has dealt a blow to Ethiopia’s private higher education institutions

Ethiopia’s education sector has seen unprecedented challenges since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools and universities were closed for eight months following the confirmation of the first case on March 13, 2020. This put nearly 26 million primary and secondary school students, and around a million tertiary students, out of learning. Over the past few months, the effects of the pandemic […] … learn more→

When children teach their grandparents to use screens

When children teach their grandparents to use screens

Digital technologies have often seemed to create a form of generational distance in families. But as the epidemic worsens and the curfew has been established everywhere in France, they are proving more and more valuable in maintaining communication between grandparents and grandchildren and appear today as “linkage” factors. Instead of seeing each other for the eternal […] … learn more→

How to choose educational apps for pre-school children

How to choose educational apps for pre-school children

Lockdowns and school closures have pushed more aspects of our lives online. This has encouraged parents and children to engage with apps and other forms of digital media more frequently than before the pandemic. For parents of young children, touchscreen apps may be a valuable resource for educational purposes. When it comes to searching for educational touchscreen […] … learn more→

We’re building a vaccine corps of medical and nursing students – it could transform efforts to vaccinate underserved areas

We’re building a vaccine corps of medical and nursing students – it could transform efforts to vaccinate underserved areas

The U.S. faces one of the most consequential public health campaigns in history right now: to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 and, especially, to get shots into the arms of people who cannot easily navigate getting vaccinated on their own. Time is of the essence. As new, potentially more dangerous variants of this coronavirus spread to new […] … learn more→

Test or invest? NZ’s sliding international student assessment rankings are all about choices

Test or invest? NZ’s sliding international student assessment rankings are all about choices

Recent news about New Zealand’s declining position in international educational assessment rankings has been treated as if it is a new phenomenon requiring drastic changes to the school system. But some suggested solutions, such as the Principals Federation’s call for greater involvement by the Ministry of Education in curriculum decisions, seem simplistic. Problems in education are more complex and […] … learn more→

A first draft in five minutes a day?

A first draft in five minutes a day?

This is a brief post. It’s a brief post about a brief strategy which helps you to get started on writing that feels a bit – well – a bit boring. It’s the five minutes a day strategy. Boring? Yes … sometimes we all have to write things that don’t excite us. We often try […] … learn more→

COVID-19 shows why it’s time to finally end unpaid college internships

COVID-19 shows why it’s time to finally end unpaid college internships

Unpaid internships are often seen as an important rite of passage for college students. And with good reason. Studies have found that students acquire new skills and networks that enhance their job prospects. In the years just after graduating from college, students who have an internship are 15% less likely to be unemployed and earn 6% more than students who did not. Simply […] … learn more→