No 2 2005
Children
Fighting a Killer Disease with Zinc
02.02.2010
Can zinc cure pneumonia? In Nepal a team of Nepalese, Norwegian and Indian scientists is trying to find out whether zinc supplements can be effective against one of the world’s biggest killers.
New Houses, New Cars and Freedom
02.02.2010
Fourteen-year-old Sabah Al Jaber and her friend Aruba Mohammad both called their countries “New Palestine”.
Bringing Back Hope
02.02.2010
With the help from Women against AIDS in Kilimanjaro, 13-year old Muna Mwasha has become a role model in her street. “I can now talk to my friends about the importance of education and they listen to me.”
Language – A Democratic Right
02.02.2010
“The importance of knowing a foreign language” was the title of an essay I wrote as an exchange student at a high school in the US many years ago. I discussed why Americans should focus more on language education because, I argued, even though English is more or less the lingua franca of the world today, there are many additional values to being able to communicate in another language than your mother tongue. Learning a foreign language means learning a foreign culture, which may not be such a bad idea in our globalised world.
News in brief
02.02.2010
News in brief by the Global Knowledge staff.
No Promises Made to Higher Education
02.02.2010
“As donors, we have neglected secondary and tertiary education,” says Norad’s new Director-General Poul Engberg-Pedersen. But he will not promise greater support for higher education and research.
The Centre of the World
02.02.2010
Good thinking is needed to secure stability in Uzbekistan. Intellectuals in the Central Asian republic now hope to join forces with Norwegian philosophers.
A Watery Success
02.02.2010
A geology/ecology project with Norwegian, South African and Mozambican partners has been voted by its South African participants the most successful collaborative project they have ever attended.
Searching for Nuclear Safety
02.02.2010
Norway, a country with no nuclear industry, hosts a major international – and controversial – research co-operation aimed at improving the reliability and safety of nuclear power plants.
Children for Sale
02.02.2010
More than a million children are victims of trafficking every year. Few rehabilitation centres are directed at assisting children, according to a recent report by Norwegian and Serbian researchers.