First Create The Right Jobs For The Graduates

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is instituting an information gathering scheme aimed at the creation of a “data warehouse”. Details of students from the three federal universities, Zayed University, UAE University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology will be recorded and compared against the stated needs of employers. The ultimate goal is [...]

51Job Gets The Job Done

China’s 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS) is getting pretty good at this quarterly performance review. The company behind the job-listings website and the 51job Weekly employment classifieds publication, which serves nearly two dozen Chinese provinces, delivered another strong quarter last night.
Revenue climbed 18% to $33.7 million. Earnings, after backing out share-based compensation and a foreign exchange hit, [...]

One In Three Aussie Meth Users High On The Job

One in three employed Australians who take methamphetamine admit going to work high on the effects of the dangerous stimulant.
A new report on stimulant use among Australian workers has revealed that four per cent of the workforce has recently taken ice, speed or some other form of methamphetamine.
One in five said they had injected it.
The [...]

Seeking The Key To Employment For Ex Cons

NEWARK — Over the past two years, Peter Santos has hired 40 ex-convicts to help him build and renovate apartments here; 36 did not last, many of them doing unacceptably sloppy work or simply disappearing after a few weeks — Health Education or a few days — on the job.
One worker, Ronald O’Reilly, 41, [...]

Obama, Clinton Stress Economic Issues Campaigning in Indiana

- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Indiana, put their focus on the economic concerns of job losses and the rising cost of health-care Education Law, education and gasoline as they tried to appeal to middle-class voters.
“I looked around the country and in too many communities what I saw were people who had been [...]

Jobs Cut From Schools’ Payroll

About 1,200 “nuts and bolts” jobs in the San Diego Unified School District were eliminated by the Board of Education yesterday to help make $80 million in budget cuts.
Trustees voted 3-2 to eliminate or reduce hours for a range of positions, including truck drivers and office staff, special-education workers and campus security guards.
Unlike the 903 [...]

Well Paying Rare Jobs

If you were a star gazer as a kid, you should’ve stuck with it Education Journal, because you could be making six figures doing what you love right now.
Based on a list culled from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, “astronomers” rank fourth among the rarest high-paying jobs in the country. This top-10 ranking [...]

Jobs Bonanza Business Education

The Labour Fund yesterday announced that it will join MENA Business Services to help train 300 Bahrainis for the call centre services industry.
MENA Business Services, a company specialising in call centre services across the Gulf, handles business contracts worth $150 million and is undergoing a major expansion plan that will see it grow significantly.
This is [...]

Hamline Launches Business School Education Jobs

Minnesota’s oldest liberal arts institution is launching a business school.
St. Paul-based Hamline University’s move to offer undergraduate business degrees, expand an existing graduate business program and open a St. Louis Park site at Interstate 394 and Minnesota Highway 100 stokes the competition in the local b-school market. It also bodes well for Hamline’s bottom line, [...]

Corporate Social Responsibility

Education News Aspen Institute Survey: MBA students still value challenging career opportunities and compensation, but social issues are registering more, especially among women.
Salary is still a high priority for most MBA students at top business schools, but more of them, especially women, also cite business’s responsibility to society as a top concern, according to a [...]

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