Who Will Fill These Shoes
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A new state report highlights 24 ideas for keeping young people in North Dakota, attracting workers and connecting education to employers.
However, the report’s findings are among the discussion items for Tuesday’s joint meeting in Bismarck of the Workforce, Higher Education and Education interim legislative committees.
Eight and 100. Graduates of North Dakota University System schools who [...]
Ac Student Receives Prestigious Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award
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As a wife, mother of three and grandmother of four, Deneice Marshall figured she’d long passed any need to bother with enrolling in college. After all, she’d already established herself both in life and in her career.
But when her employer approached her and explained some of the numerous opportunities that could unfold by furthering her [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Mesa Police Chief: Education Key To Preventing Crime
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George Gascón, who was named chief of the Mesa Police Department in August 2006, was the guest last week on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday.
Gascón oversees an agency of more than 1,400 employees that covers Mesa’s 133 square miles.
Gascón’s law enforcement career began in 1978 as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Kleine Hails Local Junior Achievement
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At a recent local event, however, the former Arkansas Razorbacks and professional basketball player focused on something else that is dear to his heart: Junior Achievement.
Kleine, now an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was the keynote speaker for a celebration of Junior Achievement’s success in Saline County.
The program, [...]
51Job Gets The Job Done
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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
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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
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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, [...]
Renaults Romania workers to strike over pay claim
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“Negotiations with the management have failed, our strike
involving more than 80 percent of the 13,000 workers will begin
on March 24. Production will stop,” Ion Iordache, a leader at
the Dacia trade union told Reuters.
He said Dacia workers earn around 1,070 lei ($445) as basic
salary on average a month, before tax.
Workers at the plant, [...]
Universities fear imminent student drought
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.Universities will have to compete harder, target more mature students and those from outside the EU to fill seats in lecture halls as a historic dip in the birth rate [...]
