The matric class of 2020 at Kingsmead College has once again achieved outstanding National Senior Certificate (NSC) results and achieved a 100% pass rate.
Leading against all odds
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When the Class of 2020 entered the school gates on 15 January 2020, their first day as the leaders of Kingsmead College, they had no idea what lay ahead of them. They expected the rites of passage, the leadership opportunities, events, sports matches, orchestra performances and consolidated academic time with their teachers.
They had big ideas on how to make an impact in their various leadership roles and what policies they were going to set out to change, they had just one year to make their mark and leave their legacy. Little did they know that these big ideas would be stalled and that as they left school on Friday, 13 March, it was the last time they would hug their friends on campus and their last school day without masks, concerns around social distancing and the risk of catching the virus that was about to grip the world.
Determined Kingsmead matriculant racks up 10 distinctions
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Cape Town - During an exceptionally challenging year, Alexa Lipchin managed to achieve 10 distinctions.This resilient and resolute learner at Kingsmead College feels that it s important to keep motivated. She also displays an impressive mix of active and academic strengths. The teachers and staff helped to ensure that we transitioned into online learning really fast, so I didn t even miss a day of school, she says. I tried my best to focus on all subjects, but I feel my results are an accumulation of the work I put into all my subjects from junior school through to high school.
Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced widespread business shutdowns, Regency Centers Corp. says 97% of the tenants in its shopping centers are open.
However, the Jacksonville-based company is remaining cautious in its outlook in case a “reverse-course” scenario forces closures again in 2021.
“Despite a rise in cases in most markets and increased restrictions in some, we have been encouraged by continued improvement in our operating results and this is driven by further meaningful progress on rent collections,” CEO Lisa Palmer said last week during Regency’s quarterly conference call with analysts.
Regency reported fourth-quarter funds from operations of 76 cents a share, down from $1 the previous year.
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by Katherine Wu: Medicine gets trippy, solar takes over, and humanity finally, maybe goes back to the moon…
hen the 2010s began, private spaceflight had barely gotten off the ground, Google was rolling out early personalized search results and CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology was still in its infancy. By decade’s end, artificial intelligence had trounced people at a bevy of board games, SpaceX had become a household name and genetically modified human embryos became a controversial reality.
Clearly, a lot can happen in a decade but innovation has to start somewhere. Based on what’s breaking through now, here are some trends that have the potential to shape the 2020s.