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Republicans and impeachment | English in Uganda

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2019

 

Editor's note

As the impeachment investigation continues in Washington, polls suggest a majority of Republican voters disapprove of launching an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. With a two-thirds majority required in the US Senate, Democrats will need the backing of Republican senators if Trump is to be impeached. Thomas Gift argues that Republican leaders may be overestimating the extent to which the public wants them to defend Trump.

Uganda has an education policy in place that sets down at what age children should learn English. But, as Medadi Ssentanda explains, the policy doesn’t take into account what’s possible in rural areas of the country where conditions – particularly in state schools – militate against children developing proficiency.

Gemma Ware

Global Affairs Editor

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Refusing to cooperate. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Republicans have more political leeway to impeach Donald Trump than they think

Thomas Gift, UCL

Are Republican leaders overestimating the extent to which the public wants them to defend Donald Trump?

Politics + Society

Why Uganda’s English language policy is failing rural children

Medadi Ssentanda, Makerere University

Uganda's English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country's rural schools.

Kurds targeted in Turkish attack include thousands of female fighters who battled Islamic State

Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida

Kurdish women have fought on the front lines of military battles since the 19th century. A scholar explains the origins of Kurdistan's relative gender equality in a mostly conservative Muslim region.

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it’s important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology; John Gachohi, Washington State University

Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.

How to know which impeachment polls to believe – and which to skip

Michael Traugott, University of Michigan

Members of Congress factor what the public thinks into their decisions. But it's difficult to measure what the public is really thinking.

Energy + Environment

Animals are disappearing from forests, with grave consequences for the fight against climate breakdown – new research

Charlie Gardner, University of Kent; Jake Bicknell, University of Kent; Matthew Struebig, University of Kent; Zoe Davies, University of Kent

In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are shedding carbon – and the main global tool to measure forest health is blind to the problem.

The digital revolution could unlock a green transformation of the global economy

Dirk Messner, United Nations University

Innovation in digital technology is accelerating – it has massive untapped potential for tackling the climate crisis.

En español

Bienvenido a la era de los seguros interactivos

Alfonso Ortega Giménez, Universidad Miguel Hernández

Tecnologías como el 'big data', el 'machine learning', las redes sociales y los dispositivos inteligentes permiten a las aseguradoras extraer información valiosa de fuentes antes imposibles.

La obesidad digital amenaza nuestro bienestar: cambiemos la dieta

Víctor Sampedro Blanco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

El modelo de negocio dominante en la industria digital no prefigura un futuro tecnológico emancipador. La dietética digital plantea una desconexión parcial y temporal, necesaria para reprogramarnos y reconectarnos.

En français

Nous ne sommes pas condamnés à la « forestalgie »

Hervé Jactel, Inra

Jamais on n’aura autant loué le rôle clé des forêts pour lutter contre les effets du changement climatique. Et jamais les forêts n’auront été si menacées…

Nobel 2019 : l’économie comportementale, une expertise au service d’un néolibéralisme à visage (presque) humain

Jean-Michel Servet, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Les expérimentations menées par les économistes comme Esther Duflo, lauréate du « Nobel » 2019, ne questionnent jamais l’organisation néolibérale dans laquelle ils évoluent.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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