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Research Shows A Strong Public Desire For Science

The Horizons Tracker

million downloads of reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), which is widely regarded as the cream of the crop of science-based literature, and examined the reasons for downloading. million downloads since 2011, which is when the Academies first started to offer the reports for free.

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Progress for Women in Economic Equality Lower Than Health and Education in Recent Study

Women on Business

The sixth annual World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2011 shows that over the last six years 85% of countries have been improving their gender equality but in several African and South American countries it is declining. Says report co-author Ricardo Hausmann.

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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it’s perhaps no surprise that a new report from the London School of Economics shows that job-based training is no different. in 2011 to 6.4 in 2011 to 6.4 Investing in skills. ” Training participation. .

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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

A recent paper shows that there are over 10 million such people operating in the European Union, but whereas many such people are highly educated, the paper argues that they often suffer from poor working conditions and institutional support that is simply not geared for this modern form of work. Different needs. Banding together.

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Competitive Labor Markets Help Extract Community Benefits From Multinationals

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers measured the economic wellbeing of people in the communities where the company operated between 1973 and 2011. The analysis showed that households in the area where the company operated appeared to have significantly higher living standards than nearby regions, whether in terms of education, sanitation, or housing quality.

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5 Big Ideas: What’s Next for Leadership Development?

Great Leadership By Dan

So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? I’d encourage you to read the full 32 page report yourself, but if you’d like the Cliff Notes version (with my biased and twisted commentary), here it is: Big idea #1: The merging fields of leadership and neuroscience.

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Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform

First Friday Book Synopsis

Sara Mosle’s vigorous review of Steven Brill‘s book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools, appears in The New York Times‘ Book Review section (August 21, 2011).

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