EST: Emerging issues - 0 views
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Paul Beaufait on 01 Jun 17At present (2017.06.01), this page covers three emerging issues: 1) Price volatility, 2) Investments, and 3) Climate change.
Who We Are | International Rescue Committee (IRC) - 0 views
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"The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster" (Who We Are, The IRC: 83 years of history, ¶1, 2017.06.21).
Search | LearnEnglish | British Council - 0 views
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Site search for "environment"
Contaminations: Toute l'actualité sur Le Monde.fr. - 0 views
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Series of articles and videos on environmental pollution around the world
Voices into Action - Home - 0 views
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"[A] wealth of free curriculum-based teaching resources and online tools to help you teach your students about prejudice, human rights and social justice" (Welcome to Voices into Action, ¶1).
Leadership character: The role of reflection - The Washington Post - 0 views
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"Reflection requires a type of introspection that goes beyond merely thinking, talking or complaining about our experiences. It is an effort to understand how the events of our life shape the way in which we see the world, ourselves and others. And it is essential for any leader" (¶2, 2012.03.09)
Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? | Times Higher Educat... - 0 views
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"While 39 per cent of those surveyed by THE say that the 40/40/20 workload model is still the ideal breakdown, compared with 38 per cent who do not, a massive 80 per cent say it is not realistically achievable in the time contractually available" (Mayo, 2019, Less time for research but more time on work, ¶9). Mayo, Nick. (2019.07.25). Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? Retrieved from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/paid-research-time-vanishing-privilege-modern-academics
Are immigrant students disproportionately consuming educational resources? - 0 views
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 0 views
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"The IPCC was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation options" (2019.11.21).
EF EPI 2019 - EF English Proficiency Index - Asia - 0 views
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"Room for improvement: For decades, Asia has been the workshop of the world, fueling economic development across the region. But a transition from manufacturing to knowledge-driven growth will require better English."
NOAA's Ten Signs of a Warming World - 1 views
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"This set of indicators was selected [from the 2009 State of the Climate report], as we would unambiguously expect them to increase or decrease if the world were warming" (About the Data, para. 2, 2020.01.15).
Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views
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Digest of "a paper published recently in the journal Energy Research & Social Science" (¶3).
Citizens' Climate Lobby - About - 0 views
Loyola faculty group is pushing back against major cuts to its English language learnin... - 0 views
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"Shuffleton said contributions of international students were 'invaluable.' Still, the specialized instruction they needed in English was something that even the best professors of other subjects weren't qualified to provide" (Flaherty, 2020.02.05).
What Are The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World? | Babbel Magazine - 1 views
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"When we count the top 10 most spoken languages according to the total number of people who speak them (whether or not the language is their mother tongue), eight of the 10 languages from the list above still make an appearance, but with a few major differences: English narrowly edges out Chinese for the top spot, Japanese and Punjabi lose their spots, and French and Indonesian join the top 10 ..." (Top 10 Languages by Total Number[s] of Speakers, ¶1).
The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work - 0 views
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In this post including a 16-slide SlideShare presentation, Bernard Marr recommended "adopting a commitment to lifelong learning so you can acquire the skills you will need to succeed in the future workplace" (¶1).
Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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"Information literacy needs to start in elementary school, and students must be consistently and continuously engaged as they mature from there. New challenges in how we identify and contextualize various kinds of fabrications in libraries, archives, and museums-and in the classroom and in the learning experiences of students more broadly-will continue to arise" (¶10, retrieved 2018.11.15).
Hunkering down: Japan's higher education sector | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views
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"The number of upper secondary school graduates in Japan has declined by 38 per cent since 1990, when the country's previously booming economy began to flatline, and job vacancies outnumber applicants by more than 60 per cent. Such factors have prompted questions about the country's ability to maintain a workforce capable of paying off the world's largest public debt; Japan's government owes around two-and-a-half times what its entire economy produces each year" (¶4, 2018.11.26).
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