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Will scrapping education degrees champion cause for CBC system?

According to Dr Geoffrey Wango, a senior education lecturer at the University of Nairobi, the change is long overdue.

“Many people with Bed did not choose the programme because they wanted to be teachers. Many were just enrolled on the course with neither the passion nor the interest to teach. If the BEd is phased out, only those who love teaching will opt to go for the diploma and that makes a lot of sense, and has the potential of creating better and committed teachers,” he says.

Why 30 is the decade friends disappear

Geoffrey Wango, a psychologist says that friendship tends to decay past 25 years because this is the time that most of your social circles are limited to those you can meet with occasionally.

He adds that even though finding those that you can rely on as friends might be hard, there are those that stick by your side through thick and thin, those who don’t mind the fact that you have a family that you need to take care of, or work to do when they need you to go out.

Celebration of our mother, Hannah Njoki

I truly thank God for my life, and the gift of my parents, my late father, Samuel Wango and my mother, Hannah Njoki. My mother passed on 24th March, 2021at the golden age of 92 years. A mother not only brings a child into life but also steers the child into the unknown world. Our mother gladly nurtured us physically, morally, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually, all the five (5) daughters and six (6) sons. Motherhood is a source of encouragement and inspiration; it is mothers who instil in us the courage to go on and the confidence that we can achieve it in life.

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Are you suffering from toxic productivity?

Dr. Geoffrey Wango, a psychologist at the University of Nairobi explains that in most cases, you try too hard to prove that you are not a failure, thus putting more pressure on yourself.

Our culture values accomplishments and there is a constant pressure to be seen to be doing a lot, quickly, or fear being seen as lazy.

Road accident that transformed my life forever

The typical home may not have the requisite infrastructural layout to optimally accommodate the accident victim, notes Dr Geoffrey Wango, saying that adjustments are usually required at the household level to assist with mobility, feeding, sleep, sanitation and other day-to-day functions.

The accident itself is cause for painful recollections, but so is the reality of a new life beset with challenges.

“The person actually goes through such traumatic moments that they may not even know who they are,” stresses Dr Wango.

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NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LEARNING STRATEGY

The Climate Change Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Forestry together with project partners including UN CC:Learn, the Ministry of Education, FAO Kenya and the Kenya Climate Change Working Group in the development of the National Climate Change Learning Strategy.

PAGES HUMAN TRACES WORKING GROUP

I am steering committee member of the Human Traces working group. The working group will address the question of how the Anthropocene manifests itself in natural archives in different parts of the world depending on regional aspects of historical natural and human-induced change. The working group will first start with the paleolimnological approach, a multidisciplinary science that combines a variety of biological and geochemical information stored in lake sediment archives.

Past Global Changes Eary Career Network (PAGES ECN)

An Early Career Network under PAGES (A future earth core project) designed to address this issue and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and skill sets in order to give ECRs the tools to excel as researchers. Additionally, this network aids in the dissemination of information, establishes vital scientific networks, and fosters the development of research ideas that can lead to future research collaborations and improved job prospects.