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Education in Africa

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Among all the children are enrolled in primary schools, the lowest enrollment rate is in Africa. UNESCO also reported marked gender inequalities: In most parts of Africa there is much higher enrollment by boys; in some there are more girls, due to sons having to stay home and tend to the family farm. Africa has more than 42 million children, almost half the school-age child population, receiving no schooling. Two-thirds of these are girls. The USAID Center reports that as of 2005, 40% of school-age children in Africa do not attend primary school and there are still 46 million school-age African children who have never stepped into a classroom. The regional report produced by the UNESCO-BREDA education sector analyst team in 2005 indicates that less than 10% of African children are now allowed in the system. Four out of 10 children did not complete primary school in 2002/2003. So, five years after the World Education Forum and the adoption of the Millennium Goals, prog...

Virtual Assistants

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What Virtual Assistants Do? Virtual assistants are contract or freelance workers who do their jobs from home and focus on administrative tasks that are similar to those of an executive assistant or secretary.Virtual Assistants usually work for small businesses but can also support busy executives. The profession is growing in centralized economies with "fly-in fly-out" staffing practices. Cold Calling:  Cold calling is defined as the solicitation of business from potential customers who have had no prior contact with the salesperson conducting the call. Cold calling is used to attempt to convince potential customers to purchase either the salesperson’s product or service. Telemarketing : It is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call. Telemarketing can also include rec...

Real Estate - Skip Tracing

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What Is Skip Tracing The process of locating a person's whereabouts for any number of purposes is called skip tracing (also skip tracing, or debtor and fugitive recovery).Skip-tracing is the process of “tracking down” individuals. Since it relates to accumulations and accounts receivable management, skip-tracing is the process of allocating debtors whose contact information is no longer accurate. A skip tracer is someone who performs this task that may be the person's primary occupation. The term "skip" ascribe to the person being searched for and is derived from the idiomatic expression "to skip town", meaning to depart, leaving minimal clues behind to "trace" the "skip" to a new location. Where Skip Tracing Is Needed Skip tracing tactics may be employed by a debt collector, process server, bail bondsman or bail agency enforcer, repossession agent, private investigator, lawyer, the police, detective, jour...

Why Educator should rather use Learning instead of Education

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Back when I started teaching in 2008 as a French and Spanish language tutor I would never imagine that in my early 30 I would be still in the field. But I’m teaching till now on. Most people don’t understand the difference between Education and Learning . For me education is passing the knowledge from the top to bottom whereas learning teacher and learner can learn from each other. Education is the process of giving knowledge, values, skills and attitudes, which can be beneficial to an individual. On the other hand, learning is the process of gaining knowledge, values and skills. From the start of the universe, Education has played a big role, but education in Ancient Rome progressed from an informal, familial system of education in the early republic to a based on tuition system during the late Republic and the Empire. Today everyone is a learner. There are lots of ways to learn even without going to an institution, even without spending money from pockets. MOOC , ...

Resources to Learn Bassa

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Bassa has an indigenous script, It was first popularized by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis , who has instigated publishing of limited materials in the language from the mid-1900s through the 1930s, with its height in the 1910s and 1920s. Bassa (also spelled Basaa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene , is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. Its name in Bassa is Vah , which means 'to throw a sign' . It is spoken by about 300,000 people in Centre and Littoral regions . The origins of the Bassa alphabet are obscure.The alphabet fell out of use in Liberia during the 19th century. Originally the Bassa alphabet was written on slates with charcoal, and the writing could be easily erased with a leaf known as yan. Bassa in a tonal language. Tones are marked using a system of dots and dashes which appear inside the vowel letters. As I don’t have the keyboard of this language, I can’t show you by typing. But I am showing you through a picture of this language.Basaa co...