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Leakage is a handling problem before it is a technology problem. Every person between a paper being set and a pupil sitting it is an exposure point. Start by counting the steps.

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In June 2016, 555,177 Algerian pupils sat partial baccalaureate papers a second time. The papers had leaked on social media.
Source: Al Jazeera, 20 June 2016

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In 2018, prompted by that leak, Algeria cut mobile and landline internet for about two hours every morning of the exams. A country switches off its mornings so one exam can be trusted.

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A screen with no power is furniture. Cost the electricity first.
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Power is the first barrier in a digital classroom, and it is usually the last one costed.

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This month Malaysia placed 283 rural schools into a government solar installation programme, RM57.6m allocated. In May, standalone solar was completed at 69 schools in Sierra Leone's Western Area.
Sources: DayakDaily, 14 Oct 2026; African Review, 14 May 2026

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What we learned this week: the easy number is never the one that matters.

A classroom can be priced in an afternoon. What a child learned has no such number.

Monday on edTalks: power, the first barrier in a classroom and not the last.

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Question of the week.

What does your school measure that tells you nothing about learning?

Minutes on a platform. Devices per room. The number goes up; the problem stays.

Reply with the metric you would bin, and what replaces it.

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The edTalks Briefing, week five.

Kenya: 10,384 public junior schools reached with smartboards. No cost figure given.

5 October: teacher promotions raised from 34,016 to 50,000.

A room is counted on delivery. Learning arrives through a person.

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موجز edTalks، الأسبوع الخامس.

كينيا: 10,384 مدرسة إعدادية عامة وصلتها السبورات الذكية. ولا رقم للكلفة.

5 أكتوبر: رفع ترقيات المعلمين من 34,016 إلى 50,000.

الغرفة تُحصى يوم تسليمها. أما التعلّم فيصل عبر إنسان.

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Rated highest in a 2013 review of ten techniques: practice testing and distributed practice. Quiz yourself; space the work out.

Rereading and highlighting, two of the most common, came near the bottom.

Start with two minutes on last week.

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Why is teaching more stressful now, when the tools are better?

Sakshi Vermani Rishi, in our Coffee conversation: class to class, screen to screen, task to task, and "there's no space for breathing".

More tools. Fewer moments of inner peace.

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A room can be counted on the day it arrives. A learning gain arrives later, and it arrives through a person. Budget for both, in that order.

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Cost per classroom is easy to work out. Cost per learning gain is not. Two public decisions from the same quarter, in one country, make the point.

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In Uganda, the National Planning Authority estimates the primary ratio at 55 to 60 pupils per teacher, against a global benchmark of 40.
Source: Daily Monitor, 5 Oct 2026