The buyout firm that acquired Learning Company, the troubled educational software firm, from Mattel said yesterday that the software maker was now in the black and would generate "material" profits in 2001.
And so this small village in the heart of the Ivory Coast has come to represent the big problems facing this country and others in Africa, where AIDS has weakened the already troubled educational systems.
Wilshaw used the publication of the annual report to highlight the "deeply troubling" educational divide in England, with children in the north and Midlands much less likely to attend a good or outstanding secondary school than their peers in the south.
9 They also had even lower educational qualifications and trouble keeping a job and honouring financial obligations.
Instead, far behind on credits, he was transferred to an educational center for problem students, where he got in trouble and was suspended again.
This reveals those blaming educational institutions for the trouble to be guilty of reverse logic.
PAGE A8 AIDS and Africa's Teachers In Ivory Coast and elsewhere in Africa, where many educational systems are already troubled, AIDS has had a devastating toll on teachers.
However, I am troubled by educational policies that result in removing face-to-face teacher-student interaction from the learning equation.
The roots of the problem run deep in a conservative society that is having trouble adjusting to educational and economic advances by women, long confined to the home.
