Non-traditional high schooler excels in academics

[Islandman]

This is a typical story of a late-developing student from a disadvantaged background. One can only imagine how many of these youngsters never make the transition.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...ge-25_16958304

I also found this quote about UWI worth noting:

"One of the problems with UWI is not that UWI has not done good research, but we have to just leave it at the knowledge development stage because we just don't have the money to move to application," he said. "We have the knowledge, develop it but it's the guys overseas with the money [who] buy our papers off the Internet and make use of what we have discovered theoretically."

I wonder to what extent that really happens, not just for UWI but for research done at universities in developing countries?

[MdmeX]

Thank God for the mother, he had! She made sure she didn't have more children, so she could focus on his education. Unlike so many of our women, who think that 11 is better than 1!

[MdmeX]

Mom thanks God

Mom thanks God as son overcomes poverty to earn PhD at age 25

Nelson got wake-up call from mom’s warning

BY INGRID BROWN Associate editor — special assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, June 23, 2014 45 Comments


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