Thank you to all those who entered the Blogging Competition. We enjoyed reading your writing! Below are links to all of the articles we published: please read them and share your thoughts and comments with the authors and with us.
Congratulations to the winners of the NUHA Blogging Prizes 2012! These were announced on 17 December 2012 by our experienced Jury, who was "impressed by the creativity and story-telling abilities of the participants -- too bad we can only offer one prize per category!" In the Youth Category, the winner was Maheen Behrana, because "she makes a strong and convincing argument; her article drew on a number of angles and points to support her views, yet remained engaging and easy to follow." In the Adult Category, Anna Stielau was the winner "mainly for the strong quality of her argument and the supporting quotes and examples". For the Young Writers Category, it was decided that all three authors deserved recognition rather than to award a prize: they each received an Amazon voucher worth £25.
Entries in alpabetical order:
Young Writers Category (10-14)
- Capoor, Ram (Singapore): Mistakes are opportunities to learn
- Cookie (France): How can technology help to make education more accessible to all?
- Suk, Kayley (South Korea): Babel Fish
Youth Category (15-18)
- Behrana, Maheen (UK): "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil". - C.S Lewis -- Winner of the NUHA Youth Blogging Prizes 2012!
- Cattley, Alice (UK): "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil". - C.S Lewis
- Lomax, Emily (UK): "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil". – C.S Lewis
- Smith, Gemma (UK): If everyone were able to speak English, what would happen to all the other languages?
- Renaut, Juliette (France): If Everyone Were Able to Speak English, What Would Happen to the Other Languages? -- Shortlisted!
- Vedan, Eshlin (South Africa): If everyone were able to speak English, what would happen to all the other languages? -- Shortlisted!
- Wallis, Cameron (UK): If everyone were able to speak English, what would happen to all the other languages?
- Zubair, Aishat Olabimpe (Nigeria): Education Devoid of Values Makes Man a Cleverer Devil
Adult Category (19+)
- Adhikari, Sushil (Nepal): A world without printed books - what good and evil may come from this?
- Agulhas, Claudia Meggan (South Africa): Towards a progressive society
- Anyole, Emmanuel (Uganda): The future of books
- Baggott, Kate (Canada): Ike and Me -- Shortlisted!
- Baldecer, Reggie (The Philippines): The New Page of Future
- Biddle, Emma (Australia): In the future, people will cease to own books -- Shortlisted!
- Bolaji, Sanni (Nigeria): In the future, people will cease to own books
- Chou, Sovisoth (Cambodia): The Future of Books. Either Ways!
- Dawson, William (UK): Ah! TS Eliot
- Fathahullah, Muaz (Sri Lanka): Understanding the words for the heart
- Goodness, Wondah (Nigeria): The function of education
- Issa, Ridwan (Nigeria): In the future, people will cease to hold books -- Shortlisted!
- Kurniawan, Redite (Indonesia): Touch their hearts, make them love learning
- Kurumilla, Vijayashree (India): A world without books will never come to be
- Lopez, Clinton (The Philippines): Education opens doors
- Malamsha, Jastin Gabriel (Tanzania): In the future, people will cease to own books -- Shortlisted!
- Maldonado, Katie (UK): My Kindle and I
- Momanyi, Harun (Kenya): Books are here to stay
- Muhammed, Abdullahi (Nigeria): The Way We Acquire And Share Knowledge Is Changing
- Okpomo, Kenneth (Nigeria): "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela -- Shortlisted!
- Oladejo, Segun (Nigeria): Do not speak in vernacular
- Ramakrishnan, Harish (India): The function of education
- Stielau, Anna (South Africa): The book is dead (again). Long live the book -- Winner of the NUHA Adult Blogging Prizes 2012!
- Vedan, Theesan (South Africa): Our Antiquated Word Containers
- Walton, Annette (UK): Kindles Don't Smell
- Wazir, Atiyah (UK): In the future, people will cease to own books
- Webb, Stephanie (USA): "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
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