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To what extent can social entrepreneurship be a positive tool for development?

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by Magatte Camara Link to Essay by Magatte Camara Today, with social and economic inequalities growing worldwide, doing business in a more ‘friendly’ way is on the rise. In other words, it is possible both to make money and contribute to social development. This concept is more commonly known as called social entrepreneurship. This essay …

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From the Kangaroo Report to the Illegal Court’s Decision: Omissions, Erasures, and Silences

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  On 11th May 2015 a memo was delivered at my house inviting me to a meeting: “Invitation to a meeting with an appointment sub-committee to look into the renewal of appointment of Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah”. On receipt of the said memo, I called the registrar to clarify the real purpose of the meeting since …

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From Illegality to Jungle Justice: The Crisis of Fourah Bay College Continues

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The crisis of Fourah Bay College (FBC) reached the apex of its surreal drama this weekend. In what many have described as an unprecedented situation in the more than one hundred year history of the institution, the Court of the University of Sierra Leone announced Friday that it has “summarily …

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Investigators Release Plagiarism File against USL Vice Chancellor

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Investigators have released a dossier containing cases of alleged plagiarism contained in a dissertation submitted to the University of South Africa in 2004 by Ekundayo J. D. Thompson, the current acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone. The dossier’s release follows media reports last week that the University of South Africa (UNISA) has …

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UNISA opens plagiarism investigation against USL Vice Chancellor

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The University of South Africa (UNISA) has commenced an internal investigation into a report which listed cases of plagiarism found in a dissertation submitted to its College of Education by one of its former students, Ekundayo Jonathan David Thompson from Sierra Leone. The University of South Africa, through a long-distance learning program, awarded Ekundayo Thompson …

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University of Sierra Leone suffers another setback over Prof. Abdullah’s case

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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has postponed an international workshop for Sierra Leonean scholars scheduled for June 15 and 16, 2016 in Freetown because of ongoing international protests against the University of Sierra Leone over the case of Professor Ibrahim Abdullah. For several months now, the University of Sierra Leone has come under severe …

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Report on Ekundayo Thompson’s Amazon Findings

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      The higher education crisis in Sierra Leone is the focus of an international investigation, which sheds light into the history of an ongoing practice of questionable promotions criteria that is a key factor in the ineptitude and management problems bedeviling the university. The recent investigation centered, in particular, on the academic records …

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Corruption in the Sierra Leone Academe: Who is Ekundayo J. D. Thompson?

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A recent independent investigation into the operations of the University of Sierra Leone, and of Fourah Bay College in particular, has unearthed the root causes of the crisis that now plagues higher education in Sierra Leone. The investigation, which focused on the causes of decline in teaching and learning standards in the oldest western-style institution …

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