EDUCATION

Economic Insanity: Obama Spends $11 Million to Create Each 'Green' Job

There has been nothing you could call "successful" about President Obama's so-called "green energy" initiatives, but the worst thing of all is the billions in taxpayer dollars he has utterly wasted on failed companies who were trying to push unproven, and ultimately failed, initiatives.
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Learning Online Gets Seriously More Fun

Learning does not have to end with a earning a diploma or your retirement. Accessing world-class education is now easy via online.Thanks to the online courses, getting a masters degree or advanced studies could be done according to your own pace and fun is not a word to be missed.

The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic

Languages are highly complex systems and yet most children seem to acquire language easily, even in the absence of formal instruction. New research on young children's use of British Sign Language (BSL) sheds light on one mechanism - iconicity - that may play an important role in children's ability to learn language.

Giving Up the Occupation and Starting Your Retirement

This week, Mother Nature occupied Wall Street. CNN, the Weather Channel and the National Weather Service reported that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was under three feet of water. A live video feed of the trading floor said otherwise. Maybe it was just wishful thinking. The stock market was closed anyway.

NSW Teachers to Push Through With Wednesday Strike

Members of the New South Wales Teachers Federation will defy the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) order and stage a strike on Wednesday, June 27. The strike is expected to close 2,200 state schools and affect 760,000 NSW students.

Government Starts Payout of Schoolkids Bonus

In a bid to make the carbon tax more acceptable to Australian households, the Gillard government started to send on Thursday payouts of the Schoolkids Bonus. The yearly payouts, at $409 per child in primary school and $818 per child in high school, are part of the Family Tax Benefits Plan A.

HR Warned Not To Mistreat the Unsuccessfuls; It May Come Back to Bite You

When a candidate is unsuccessful, an all too common practice is for HR to discard them without a second thought. And with good reason. Narrowing the candidate pool is a unenviable task and sheer time constraints preclude many in HR from going the extra step in personalising the notification.

So Your Office is Your Home

We are now in the work-from-home work culture, where businesses allow their employees to work from their homes on their beds wearing their pajamas and just go online for a certain period of time. In this article, we will tackle the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of work culture.

Focus on “How” Not the “Why” for Flexible Work Success

What's one of the biggest mistakes that I see people make when they present a proposal to work more flexibly to their manager? They focus on "why" they want to work differently, when they should emphasize "how" they are going to get their job done.

Finance Jobs in London Hits 'a 16-year Low'

London's finance sector is facing a 16-year low in the number of available jobs, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on Wednesday, with the euro zone crisis expected to cause more than 25,000 layoffs in 2012.

The Education Scam

In the news lately is the plight of the students. Everybody tells them they should go to college. But college is expensive. And since nobody has any money in America, they have to borrow. They end up with a worthless college degree and, on average, about $25,000 in debt.

Teacher Claims Christian School Fires Her over Pregnancy

A teacher at a Christian school told her family that having a child out of wedlock is the reason for the termination of her employment as her condition breaks the "lifestyle agreement" she signed with the school, Brisbanetimes.com.au reported.

Survey Shows Less Teens Get High on Marijuana, Sex Activity Unchanged

A research in Auckland University shows the idea that there are more teens engaging in drug abuse and sex today is only an “urban myth.” However, today’s young people are facing a different set of serious issues and web of problems, including poverty, violence and alcohol, Fairfax NZ News reports.

Is School Education Like Jail?

The people in my community love their public schools. So too it is in most of the country. If only they knew the costs, and I don't mean just the financial costs, which are two and three times those of private schools. I also mean the opportunity costs: If only people knew what they were missing!

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