09 avril 2018

SRSG on migration and refugees: fact-finding mission to Spain

The Special Representative will visit migrant temporary stay facilities and centres for children in the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla. He will also visit migrant detention facilities and reception centres for refugees in Murcia, Valencia and the Madrid area. The SRSG will have meetings with Spanish government officials, regional and local authorities, the Ombudsman and the Mayor of Madrid. In addition, he will meet relevant international organisations and NGOs. More...

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Serbia has not implemented any of the recommendations on preventing corruption among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors

Serbia has not implemented in a satisfactory manner any of the thirteen recommendations provided by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO (Group of States against Corruption) to the country in July 2015, according to the new compliance report published today. More...

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Assises du maintien en emploi - Paris

carif espace-compétencesA l’initiative de la Fédération régionale des SIST d’Ile-de-France, 11 services de santé au travail mettent en commun leur expérience et leurs réseaux pour proposer aux employeurs et aux salariés, aux acteurs franciliens de la santé, du handicap et du maintien en emploi, de se rencontrer, d’échanger et de développer leurs connaissances mutuelles pour consolider l’efficacité des partenariats.
Rendez-vous le 24 avril 2018 à la Maison de la Chimie à Paris pour les Assises du maintien en emploi.

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Tunisie: relancer le processus de convergence économique et le mettre au service de tous les tunisiens

https://oecdecoscope.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cropped-blog-clouds.jpgPosted . La croissance économique tarde néanmoins à redémarrer. Des facteurs spécifiques et temporaires ont pesé, notamment la faible croissance des marchés traditionnels d’exportation, des tensions sociales, la détérioration de la sécurité dans la région et la crise libyenne. La hausse du nombre de fonctionnaires et des salaires publics a soutenu temporairement la demande mais s’est traduite par une dérive des comptes publics, des équilibres externes et une montée de l’inflation. Pour relancer l’activité, la création d’emplois de qualité et la réduction des inégalités, il faut maintenant donner la priorité à la mise en œuvre des réformes structurelles. Plus...

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Enterprise Learning

Enterprise Learning
A lot of fascinating discussion in this report from the E-Learning Forum's session on Enterprise Learning. Representatives from the largest Silicon Valley e-learning companies got together to discuss the state of the industry. More...

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Today's Lesson, Sponsored By...

Today's Lesson, Sponsored By...
What I have to ask is, what are people thinking when they have Dunkin Donuts sponsor a school party, Oscar Mayer sponsor a student singing contest (of the corporate jingle), or Angel Soft toilet paper give prizes to students for community service? We want children to be receptive to the information they receive in school - that's the whole point, isn't it? - and these companies pay what amounts to a pittance for exclusive access to this receptivity. More...

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InfoWorld Trials RSS-Based Advertising

InfoWorld Trials RSS-Based Advertising
As users of Edu_RSS know, RSS spam is already a problem. So this announcement that InfoWorld is the "first" to plant advertisements in its RSS feeds is a bit of a problem (I doubt that they're first - NewsTrolls ran RSS feeds for its Cafe Press gear ages ago), but we'll leave that aside). More...

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Backlash Brews Over Rising Cost of College

Backlash Brews Over Rising Cost of College
This is a crisis that has been long in the making, as colleges and universities invariably respond to any business problem (rising expenses, declining enrollments, losing football teams) with tuition increases. More...

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Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education

Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education
Detailed discussion of the concept of an "Educational Source Forge," a free and open source repository for educational materials. More...

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Idea City 2003 Notes

Idea City 2003 Notes
So you may have been wondering where I have been these last few days. Idea City, a three day fest of speakers from a wide variety of disciplines, turns out to be an immersive affair with scarcely enough time to breathe, much less post newsletters. More...

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