Low-Fee Private Schools in Developing Nations: Some Cautionary Remarks

Women School Leaders: Entrepreneurs in Low Fee Private Schools in Three West African Nations

This study explores the opportunities and challenges of women who own low-fee private schools in three West African nations. With the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2016, it has become obvious to policymakers that school leadership needs to be a policy priority around the world. Increased school autonomy and a greater f...

Is There a String Theory Landscape: Some Cautionary Remarks

There is evidence that string theory possesses a large discretuum of stable and/or metastable ground states, with zero or four supersymmetries in four dimensions. I discuss critically the nature of this evidence. Assuming this “landscape” exists, anthropic explanations of some quantities are almost inevitable. I explain that this landscape is likely to lead to a prediction of low energy supersy...

Some encouraging and some cautionary remarks on Doubly Special Relativity in Quantum Gravity

The idea of a role for DSR (doubly-special relativity) in quantum gravity finds some encouragement in a few scenarios, but in order to explore some key conceptual issues it is necessary to find a well-understood toy-quantum-gravity model that is fully compatible with the DSR principles. Perhaps the most significant source of encouragement comes from the recent proposal of a path for the emergen...

Exercise is medicine: some cautionary remarks in principle as well as in practice.

On the basis of extensive research on the relationship between physical activity, exercise and health, as well as strong support from policymakers and practitioners, the "Exercise is Medicine" initiative has become something of a linchpin in the agenda for modern healthcare reform and reflects a broader acceptance that the philosophy of health politics must shift from social engineering to perf...

Consumption in Developing Nations