FROM THE BEAT: Present is bad, where is the good past?

>Between May 21 and 25, 2007, I carried out a five-day survey on Teaching and Learning Processes in Secondary Schools in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region.The aim was to establish how teachers do their work, the methods they use, how and whether pupils are involved in the learning process and the role of parents in their children’s education.

With the constitution review now suspended, the general mood across the country is one of frustration and even anger--not least because of the cost implications. So far, we have spent up to Sh21 billion on phase 1 and Phase 2--running from February 2014 to October 4--during which the focus was on debating the proposals in the second draft.

How much time do you spend in front of a screen in a day? The answer is a considerable good amount of time, right? Did you say sometimes the whole day? You are not alone.

Satirist asks if political dynasties can be a good thing

Atsede Nguse's husband disfigured her in Ethiopia, but well-wishers have helped her recovery.

>The line between good and evil is permeable,” says psychologist Philip Zimbardo, “and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.”  As Zimbardo and other social scientists have shown in a range of experiments, actions we deem evil — cheating, lying, stealing, and worse — don’t spring from people’s character, but the situations they find themselves in.

The revelation that over 95 per cent of students who sat for the 2013/2014 national exams passed is supposed to be good news to the entire country but it hasn’t been received well by some education stakeholders.

>Ever since our independence, Tanzania has been a unique country for its tranquillity. Its people, by and large, had deep respect for the law. The executive also respected the law, so did the other arms of state - the judiciary and the legislature. Disrespect for the law was both stigmatic and consequential.

The BBC's Piers Edwards looks at the key issues, including shirt sponsorship, around which South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale is campaigning for the Fifa presidency.