AWITI: Covid-19 will become an endemic disease
It is no longer a path to herd immunity but a path to normality, living with the virus.
AWITI: Publish or perish harms scholarship, student outcomes
Emphasis on publishing diminishes the value or quality of resulting scholarship.
ALEX AWITI: Do we have the will to stop human-induced climate catastrophe?
Climate change is already affecting every region across the globe
AWITI: We must avoid pandemic of the unvaccinated
Global surge in Covid infection, deaths concentred in regions where vaccination rates are low.
AWITI: Export excess vaccines or import deadly variants
One unvaccinated person anywhere is a threat to vaccinated people everywhere.
AWITI: Investments in education must be informed by sound evidence
Gathering kids into seats in a building has not translated into learning.
AWITI: Planet imperiled by climate change demands urgent action
We can bend the warming curve and get planet back on an even keel...Time is of the essence.
ALEX AWITI: Higher education reform must be driven by dialogue
This is not time for rancour and grandstanding on legality or structure. It is time to reason together.
ALEX AWITI: Conserve nature or forget about wildebeest migration
Going by recent studies, we will not enjoy the spectacle of wildebeest migration much longer.
AWITI: Build resilience, not reactive drought relief support
Climate shocks need not touch on a humanitarian crisis. Famine is not an ordained outcome of drought.