Student news roundup March
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%26ldquo;University politics are vicious, Henry Kissinger once quipped, %26ldquo;precisely
because the stakes are so small.
On the latter point, the 35 student activists running for positions at the
forthcoming NUS
Annual Conference are out to prove old Kissinger wrong. But vicious, the
NUS elections are most certainly turning out to be. The first saga to emerge
from the student scrum centres [...]
Exeter West Greenwich teachers sharpen their stand in dispute
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The Exeter-West Greenwich Education Association, whose members have been working without a contract for six months, recently took out an advertisement in The Providence Journal proclaiming that they are “highly qualified†and “dedicated, committed teachers†working in “high performing schools.â€
The ad was published a week ago in the Journal’s West Bay edition, a few weeks [...]
Not the Expert Anymore
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Mine is the sad tale of the professional who thinks she knows everything about how to get a job yet miserably botches her own search for a faculty position.
For 15 years, I’ve written books aimed at a general, nonacademic audience on job searching. I operated a résumé-writing service for five years. I still teach job-search [...]
DAE University to highlight aviation education options at knowledge sessions in UAE
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Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University (DAE University), the education and training arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, will conduct a series of knowledge sessions in the UAE to familarise students who are keen to pursue a career in the aviation and aerospace industry about its higher education and training options in aviation.
The roadshows, to be held in [...]
Bills aimed at helping small businesses moving through the state Legislature
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OLYMPIA — Lawmakers pushed through a package of bills in February geared to help small businesses, including measures on health care, red tape, a dwindling workforce and tax problems.
The House passed the 10 bills that were designed to assist small businesses, which make up 93 percent of businesses in the state, House democrats said. The [...]
Parents scrambling for bilingual classes
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Here’s how it works: Instead of a set class time a few times a week, 14 native-English speakers and 14 native-Spanish speakers will begin kindergarten in the same class, and another 28 will start 1st grade. Part of the school day, they will use [...]
The Debate: Is it still worth getting a university degree
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FIGURES revealed by the Daily Post last week show that, on some courses at universities in the region, more than four-fifths of students do not go into jobs after graduation which require a degree.
One senior city academic warned the job market was failing to create enough graduate-level jobs to meet the rising number of people [...]
From Russia with bile #150; you British are drunken oafs
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Forget the Crimea and the cold war: Anglo-Russian relations have never been so
awkward. Moscow resents us giving a home to opponents of Vladimir Putin such
as the oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev.
Wed like the extradition of the agent suspected of sprinkling radioactive
polonium210 in London restaurants and hotels. We expel Russian diplomats,
and the [...]
Ill pull the strings says Putinpuppet Dmitry Medvedev
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WHEN he strides proudly across a red carpet lined with guards in
prerevolutionary uniforms to take his oath as president of Russia, Dmitry
Medvedev may be tempted to look over his shoulder.
Standing only a few yards behind him in the gilded Kremlin hall will be
Vladimir Putin, the outgoing president who was prevented by the constitution
from standing for [...]
Senior island officials are caught up in abuse inquiry
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A number of high-profile names in Jersey society have been caught up in the
child-abuse scandal.
Channel Television suggested yesterday that among those people who should
perhaps have known what was going on at the home was Reg Jeune, once one of
the islands most powerful politicians. Mr Jeune, a retired former senator
and Finance Minister, was president of the [...]
