He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.
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This will allow them not simply to cope, but thrive, when presented with the challenges and opportunities of secondary school.
For Ben King, an associate professor of chemistry at the school, one of the challenges in making the connection between science and technology is the gulf in communication between people.
It not only confronts the professional complacency of the educational establishment but, more dangerously, it challenges the cherished myth of the uniformly adequate local school.