ESRC: Disabled children still being marginalised
January 10th, 2012
Too many disabled children are unable to achieve their full potential because schools and health and social care continue to marginalise them, new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has found.
Researchers who conducted the study pointed to an epidemic in labeling children as disabled and instead said that society should change its attitude, valuing and promoting diversity.
Conducting interviews with children with disabilities and their families, the Does Every Child Matter, post Blair?
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Some information on the EKG technician training
January 9th, 2012
If you have an innate desire to help other people and have interest in modern science you can decide to become a part of health care industry. If so, the EKG technician training can help to achieve your dreams. EKG technology is an important part of the medical process and technicians perform all the EKG duties connected to patients.
With EKG technology, you would have to use non-invasive tests to examine blood vessels and hearts of patients for different diseases and disorders. An EKG machine is used by the technician to perform tests on patients to diagnose various problems. Read more…
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DISD should pursue state money for middle schools
January 4th, 2012
Last summer, I posted an entry encouraging the Dallas school district to go after funds that Texas legislators set aside in the state’s current two-year budget for the Student Success Initiative. Among the strategies that could compete for funds was this topic: middle school initiatives.
The amount included in the rider was not great: about $20 million for fiscal year 2012 and $20 million for fiscal year 2013. Since then, the figure has been whittled down even more. Earmarks have been placed on some of that money.
Still, there is about $9 million available. And it shouldn’t take that much for Dallas to launch a pilot project that targets struggling middle schools.
Dallas Rep. Eric Johnson showed an interest in this concept last year. The Democrat especially wanted to target middle schools in southern Dallas, which he helps represent.
He was right. Eight of southern Dallas’ middle schools are on the state’s list of the lowest performing schools. That means one of two things: At least 50 percent of their students failed the state’s achievement test in two or the last three years or the school was rated unacceptable for one of the last three years.
Tags: State, State Money
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In Tight Times, Medical Schools Market Themselves
December 29th, 2011
Hospitals stepped up their advertising in 2011, and some newcomers to the national marketing game are academic medical centers. While the coast-to-coast commercials help attract faculty and students, they’re also aimed at getting more paying patients to travel for treatment.
The biggest spenders on advertising are, not surprisingly, the household names in medical care. Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai and New York Presbyterian led the way for the first half of 2011. Overall, hospitals shelled out 20 percent more during that period than in the previous year, according to the research firm Kantar Media.
One of the newcomers trying its luck on the national stage is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In one recent ad, the facility promised that “the most amazing part is that the most amazing part is yet to come. That’s the promise of discovery.”
In the last year, the Nashville-based teaching hospital bought sponsorship time on CNN, Fox News and NPR.
Vanderbilt’s chief marketing officer, Jill Austin, says that the marketing campaign has many goals.
“We think of it almost as a service to the public, to get the word out,” she says.
The Vanderbilt ads focus primarily on treatments for cancer and heart disease that are based on an individual’s DNA.
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UNC-CH faculty shares concerns about role of athletics
December 17th, 2011
In the wake of an NCAA investigation and amid the hiring of a new football coach, some University of North Carolina faculty members are urging the university’s leadership to assess the role of athletics in campus life.
“We want to make sure that the academic integrity is protected,” UNC history professor Jay Smith said Wednesday during a telephone interview. “We want to see what we can do to reduce the walls of separation that leave athletics on one side and academics on the other and that segregates students and takes student-athletes away from the rest of the campus.”
Smith and four other members of the UNC faculty recently wrote an open letter to the UNC Board of Trustees that expressed concern about the role of athletics at UNC. The faculty members released the letter on Friday, the day that UNC introduced Larry Fedora as its new head football coach. The university agreed to a seven-year contract with Fedora that will pay him $1.73 million annually.
In the letter that Smith and other faculty members wrote, they asked the university’s trustees to address five questions. Read more…
Tags: Role, Role Athletics
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How to Prepare For a New Career without Quitting Your Job?
December 17th, 2011
If you are already working full time and want to change your career, you can opt for various online degree programs. Distance learning offers you maximum flexibility so that you can plan your schedule and study at your own pace.
Preparing For a New Career without Discontinuing Your Job
Students choose online degree programs for various reasons; predominantly due to the convenience they offer. For those working full time, online degrees help them in developing a career or in revamping their existing one without discontinuing their existing jobs and allows them to avoid a break of two- or four-year from work which they would otherwise have had to take in order to pursue higher education.
Online colleges help you to opt for online degrees at any place and can help you complete the course from the comfort of your home.
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Functional recipes (strategies) for success at McDonalds UK
December 16th, 2011
Love them or loathe them, its hard to deny that McDonalds has really got its act together in the UK and is thriving in a tough environment for consumer spending. This excellent article from the Independent features an interview with Jill McDonald (no relation to the original founder!) describes some of the key functional strategies that the business has adopted which are credited with improved business performance.
Lots for business students (and their teachers) to get their teeth into here. Among the key strategies adopted are:
- Redesign and renovation of location interiors, with renewed focus on families (marketing & ops) – Wider menu choice, including some healthier options (marketing & ops) – Free WIFI (marketing) – High level of training, including extended apprentice programmes – Increased proportion of locations which are franchises (up from 40% in 2006 to 65% now)
Well worth a read.
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