Graduating M.B.A. students this year have had no trouble landing very good jobs. Yet, for the second consecutive year, even the highest ranked business schools in the U.S. are beginning to report significant declines in M.B.A. applications. More...
Winston Churchill ne pensait probablement pas à l’Argentine lors de sa déclaration du 11 novembre 1947, devant la Chambre des Communes, devenue universellement célèbre, "la démocratie est le plus mauvais des régimes, les autres exceptés". Pourtant, celle-ci s’applique parfaitement à cet Etat d’Amérique latine. Sa démocratie, en effet, s’accorde aux pas du tango, un temps en avant, puis le suivant en arrière. Et ainsi de suite, en boucle, au fil des années. Plus...
By Doug Lederman. The administrator who was supposed to become director of a branch campus of the University of Alaska at Anchorage next week has withdrawn from the job, the Associated Press reported. More...
Scott McLemee highlights some new and upcoming books that are relevant to the current border crisis. More...
Après plusieurs mois de grève et malgré des annonces de la part du gouvernement, des soignants ont à nouveau manifesté dans toute la France, mardi 2 juillet. Il s’agissait pour eux de maintenir la pression sur le gouvernement et tenter d’étendre le mouvement à tout l’hôpital d’ici la rentrée. Le mouvement s’est déclenché à la suite de plusieurs agressions du personnel des urgences d’hôpitaux de l’est parisien. Les grévistes s’indignent du manque de moyens alors que le nombre de patients pris en charge aux urgences est passé de 10 millions en 1996 à 21 millions en 2016. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alfred Essa[Edit][Delete]: The Patent Crisis Widens with New Attacks, The NOSE [Edit][Delete] August 21, 2006
As usual, you can obtain a full background on the Blackboard patent issue here.
And the issue, argues Alfred Essa, has widened into a full-blown crisis. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Michael Feldstein[Edit][Delete]: The Blackboard Patent Crisis at Two and a Half Weeks, E-Literate [Edit][Delete] August 14, 2006
Last Friday, David Jakes defended Blackboard. "Isn't Blackboard, Inc. just taking advantage of what is available to them as a corporation?" And in the comments, Jeff Utecht piles on. "Do I like what blackboard is doing? No. Can they? Yes. And all you can say is God Bless America. More...
When the Flint water crisis took place in 2014 and 2015, one of my graduate nursing students decided to get involved. More...
A sense of urgency for action against pollution is building. Air pollution and climate agendas both acknowledge the immediate threat to human health and longer-term changes to the planet’s habitability. More...
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