The number of cashiers in Maryland has grown steadily for decades, and more than 80,000 people work as cashiers in the state’s grocery and department stores, pharmacies and boutiques. More...
2 juillet 2019
2 juillet 2019
The Next Lawsuits to Hit Higher Education
It is simply a matter of time before a class-action one is filed against an institution for knowingly using biased instruments in evaluating its faculty, argues Ann Owen. More...
1 juillet 2019
Salisbury, NB
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Salisbury, NB, June 26, 2006
Here's your mail! Fresh after an invigorating bicycle ride in the country yesterday (click the picture to see the photos), I am catching up a bit with today's newsletter. So it's a bit longer than usual and contains extra resources on e-portfolios and social networking, two topics that have taken the education technology community by storm lately. [Tags: E-Portfolios, Online Learning, Newsletters, Networks, Flickr] [Comment]. More...
24 juin 2019
Niagara Falls
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Niagara Falls, May 23, 2006
As promised, photos from our visit to Niagara Falls on Friday. The Falls were much more impressive than I thought they would be, and we did the whole thing - the Maid of the Mist and the tour behind and under the Falls. Enjoy. [Tags: Flickr] [Comment]. More...
24 juin 2019
Hamilton
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Hamilton, Ontario, May 22, 2006 
Andrea and I travelled to Ontario Tuesday for my brother's wedding and ended up spending a fw days on a pleasant vacation in Hamilton. These are photos (on Flickr) from that trip - most of which are from the Royal Botanical Gardens and from a hike along the Bruce Trail on the Niagara Escarpment. We also spen a day at Niagara Falls, but I'll be linking to those spectacular shots tomorrow. Anyhow, enjoy the photos. [Tags: Linking and Deep Linking, Flickr] [Comment] [Edit]. More...
22 juin 2019
Strengthening institutions to improve the prosperity of all Mexicans
By . The success of policy reforms in all areas therefore hinges on the ability of institutions to create the right incentives. Quality institutions also create certainty and a level playing field on which people can build, thus bringing more fairness and greater access to opportunities. Overall, quality institutions are of fundamental importance to economic outcomes. More...
22 juin 2019
Fortalecer las instituciones para mejorar la prosperidad de los mexicanos
By . ¿Por qué algunos países son más ricos que otros? Es cada vez más reconocida la importancia de las instituciones fuertes y eficaces para el éxito económico de las naciones (ver, por ejemplo, Acemoglu y Robinson, 2012). Las instituciones proporcionan un marco que da forma a los incentivos económicos, lo que influye en las decisiones en una multitud de áreas, tales como educarse, iniciar un negocio, invertir, etc. More...
16 juin 2019
Danger Ahead
Canadian universities and colleges like to congratulate themselves for their enormous success in increasing international student enrolments over the past few years. And why not? That success has brought Canadian institutions billions of dollars and allowed them to make up for roughly a decade of domestic tuition fee controls and stagnant core provincial funding. More...
16 juin 2019
Two Important Statscan Papers
Statistics Canada released a couple of papers in the last month which unfairly got zero play in the general media, so thought I would pick them up and amplify them here. More...16 juin 2019
Age 71
Ontario is a weird place sometimes. One month ago, the government announced that it was implementing a performance-based funding plan which – if you took the government’s half-thought-out comments seriously – raised the possibility that hundreds of millions or perhaps even billions of dollars currently projected to be spent on institutions might be snatched away if institutions failed to hit some ill-defined targets in a type of contract-based funding system. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)