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Rural Students Disadvantaged When It Comes To University

The Horizons Tracker

After researching data from around 800,000 English students starting university in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, they found that cities appear to provide an “escalator effect” into these universities that don’t exist in rural areas.

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How to Advance Your Career in HR

HR Digest

Education Requirements . There is no specific education requirement for those interested in pursuing career paths in HRM. The only caveat is that you must be able to pass pre-employment tests such as the Standardized Test of Adult Basic Education Skills (STABLE), written by the Occupational Information Network. Job Outlook .

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The Importance Of Immigrants For The Future Of Tech

The Horizons Tracker

This was emphasized clearly by research from McKinsey a few years ago, which highlighted that 35% of the 247 million or so people who live outside their country of birth are highly skilled migrants with at least a tertiary education. That’s roughly twice the number who were leaving per year in 2010.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” 2010, January).

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2016, Vincent Barabba: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians.

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2016, Vincent Barabba: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective (I will add a blog post on this one soon). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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