29-06-2015 13:18 via news.yahoo.com

Booming education business helps some Africans move up a class

By Tendai Dube JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Packed tightly at a row of graffitied desks in an overcrowded classroom, students at Masiqhakaze Secondary School near Johannesburg shiver as a chilly breeze blows through broken windows. This run-down, tin-shack district is a poor environment for learning but its conditions are similar to those in thousands of state schools across Africa that academics say have left millions with skills suitable only for manual labour. In a 2015 report the World Economic
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