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Researchers Are Encouraged To Produce Quantity Rather Than Quality Research

The Horizons Tracker

Research activity As many academics face pressure from their institutions and grant bodies to demonstrate research activity, regular assessments such as REF are utilized to allocate funding and evaluate performance, which can have significant financial and career implications.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors. public workforce-development system do.

Skills 8
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Four Things the Private Sector Must Demand on Cyber Security

Harvard Business Review

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.