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- Free tuition for math/science majors?
- Free tuition for math/science majors?Good idea, but only if outsourcing is stoppedStudents won't pick up a major where most of the related jobs are moved overseas.Carry it fartherAs one of those victims of outsourcing now working in a mundane industry with a BS in Physics and advanced database, networking and...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, industry, job, outsourcing, education, tuition
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Free tuition for math/science majors?
- The Billings Gazette is reporting on a proposal by Montana Senator Max Baucus D, calling for free tuition in certain fields to increase our competitiveness with foreign countries. Intended as part of his "Education Competitiveness Act," the funding would providefree college tuition for math and science majors as part...
- Tags: Science, Billings Gazette, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Latest net problem for students: online gambling
- Indianapolis Star reporter Staci Hupp reports on a worrisome new Internet trend - college students are gambling online, sometimes in an attempt to get help with tuition. Last week was AbsolutePoker.com's big poker tournament, and Butler U. freshman Robb Barbauld was up late, trying to win some money. The tournament's...
- Tags: tournament, AbsolutePoker.com
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Public university tuition up 7.1% in 2005
- The rate of growth in tuition costs at four-year private colleges in 2005 was about the same as 2004, 5.9%, to $21,235. 4-year public university tuitions rose 7.1% to $5,491. In 2004, public school tuition jumped 10.5%. Including room and board, the cost of attending a private college is $29,026...
- Tags: tuition
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
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- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Summer reading for kids
- Summer reading for kidsIn the beginningI think one has to start earlier with this. I am a programmer, my wife is running an e-business and our TV is unplugged, we watch some thing on the PC but that's it. We have one child of the age of 17 Months and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Greek Mythology, Iliad
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Edvision (exe)
- Welcome to Edvision the Education Center Management System. Edvision is a software application designed to address all aspects of non-traditional and traditional education. Edvision is used by training center, tuition center, language center, institutes, colleges, associations, Montessori, private school, pre-school, martial arts school, dancing school, music school, acting school, art...
- Tags: School, Infobina, Edvision, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Management, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future
- U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- Pigs is pigs and data is datareal meaning of statisticsThe whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those. You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics;...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Lessons from American university education
- Lessons from American university educationCorrectionsYou wrote: Not only are graduates easy pickings for companies who want the best and brightest in the world (or rather, would be, if our own government wasn’t so intent on sending them back to their home countries), but they create opportunities for private money to...
- Tags: college system, private college, education, American University
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: Education, University, Europe, American University, University Of South Dakota, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Start as we mean to go on
- Students here, students there, students practically everywhere. We've passed exams, written essays by candlelight, had many sleepless nights, and studied furiously – and that's just to get into university. Now we're here the outcome is a degree and a job at the end; it's the very least we could ask...
- Tags: Student, Recruitment & Selection, Web Site Development, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Pumping up the comp sci pipeline
- Pumping up the comp sci pipelineWell...I'd think that unless ComSci is entrenched in schools initiatives like this conference will go the way of any other program that is outside the "core."So, how to get it into the core? It would seem that CTE is on the way to being declared...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Benefits, CSTA web site, grammar school
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Health care debate is a neverending story
- Health care debate is a neverending storySupply and demandOf course there's a way to balance the two. It's called the Market. Get third-party pay out of the equation, and demand and supply laws will come into effect.The reason demand is so high is because prices are artificially low. Whenever you...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reform
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reformWell, duh.The hallmark of socialism is shortages. Massachusettes socializes it's health care, and wow, shock, just like Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Oregon and Hawaii, shortages appear.lol...[i]By putting 340,000 new customers on the rolls demand for service has skyrocketed. Doctors just can’t keep up.[/i]That...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Massachusettes, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotry
- Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotrybigotrySeveral protesters wore demonic masks and held signs with phrases such as "Hubbard is the Devil" and "Honk if you hate Scientology." It had a striking resemblance to the disinformation beginnings of the German persecution of Jews or the kkk persecution of...
- Tags: Scientologists, religion, anti-Scientology, Scientology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- So about that 2009 Federal Budget
- So about that 2009 Federal BudgetSigh.First, why is it that if the Federal Government doesn't pay for something that "something" no longer exists. As with Stem Cell Research Technology from schools can be and should be paid for by States and local communities. I'd save the Constitutional...
- Tags: Taxes, Catholic School
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Is $235 million a small price to pay for the next billion users?
- Is $235 million a small price to pay for the next billion users?Marketing. not philanthropy ....[i]"This is not a philanthropic effort, this is a business," Orlando Ayala of Microsoft told the Reuter's news agency.[/i]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6571139.stmHow long is Microsoft going to keep up this facade?[i]“If you tell a lie big enough and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, small price, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- No coding for young men
- No coding for young menPerhaps enrollments are downbecause people realize that the degree is pretty much irrelevant in the field. I know top programmers making over 100k a year who never attended college.Outsourcing and massive layoffs as a wayto manage a businesses revenue are a couple of good reasons. When...
- Tags: young men, financial incentive, software product, financial, job
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
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