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Put your money in graduates!
In the 90s it was houses. Recently talk has been of gold. But new research by Dr Anthony Hesketh of Lancaster University Management school suggests that putting your money into graduates will give you a 500% return with the break even point coming after 20 months. Commissioned by the Government’s Backing Young Britain campaign, the […]
Posted in: Employment
One Red Paperclip: Or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Simple Office Supply
October 30, 2009
A book that gallops from start to finish. I defy you to put it down, or to take more than a day to read it! It’s one of those annoyingly simple ideas that you wish you’d thought of, straight out of the Dave Gorman mold. But reading Kyle’s story, it becomes apparent that few people […]
Posted in: Books
The Land that Never Was: Sir Gregor Macgregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
October 28, 2009
Ah, this should have been so much more interesting and enjoyable than it turned out to be. How could a man persuade a whole host of settlers to follow him half way across the world, raise an extraordinary amount of funds and give up all their worldly possessions in order to build a new life […]
Posted in: Books
The Ode Less Travelled
October 28, 2009
I can’t bring myself to lend every book I recommend, so this time I bought a second copy instead. This is a charming book that is as well-written as it is well-intentioned. Fry manages to open up a world of meter, rhythm and opsimathy (what did you expect?) for those that already knew and loved […]
Government to provide green work placements
October 28, 2009
The US is going large on wind power and it’s not just hot air. I was interested in an article yesterday in Green Futures showing that the USA has now overtaken Germany as the largest producer of wind energy and is forging ahead with innovation in wind and solar, with Texas at the van. The conditions […]
Posted in: Employment, Green
The worst ever employment article?
September 18, 2009
Is this the worst ever article on employees at work? A survey from a dubiously named company that reveals such gems as “46% [of employees] admit they are less productive when tired.” Hang on, let me phone the DWP, all of a sudden unemployment reaching 2.47 million seems trivial in comparison to this…
Posted in: Employment
Coursel
September 18, 2009
(kôr’səl) n. A a programme of instruction, as in a college or university intended to cover one topic, or a particular area of a larger topic, usually over the course of a single session
Posted in: Communications, Education
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