The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is instituting an information gathering scheme aimed at the creation of a “data warehouseâ€. Details of students from the three federal universities, Zayed University, UAE University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology will be recorded and compared against the stated needs of employers. The ultimate goal is [...]
The Quad-City region graduates nearly 48,000 high school and college students each year — enough to help fill the area’s future work force needs, according to a study released Monday by the Illinois Quad-City Chamber of Commerce.
The first-ever Quad-Cities Graduate Inventory determined that 47,700 graduates are being produced annually within a 90-mile radius, which is [...]
But is it too good to be true? Everything in life has a cost, even if it’s not immediately obvious. KiwiSaver may be lucrative for many people but that doesn’t mean it’s good for New Zealand as a whole.
The total cost of KiwiSaver’s subsidies will soon reach $2 billion a year, and that is probably [...]
Central High School hosted the official launch party today of the Financial Football game, an interactive video game created by Visa that tests students financial knowledge.
Attending the party was Brain Brohm, the former University of Louisville quarterback and Green Bay Packers draftee, and Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach.
The game will be distributed to every high school [...]
It epitomised the hippie dream of free love and easy living in the Sixties. Songs, films and books mythologised it. But with the advent of powerful new strains such as skunk, cannabis is increasingly associated with feral youth, psychosis and violent crime. As the government prepares to reclassify the drug, is its decision borne of [...]
AskMeNow (OTCBB: AKMN) and The Money Channel Inc. have announced the launch of “MoneyChannel Mobile,†Business Objects a financial information portal powered by AskMeNow. The fully-automated mobile solution will give The Money Channel’s vast national Radio and Television audience of financial industry investors, consumers and insiders easy access to business, stock market and economic news, [...]
Retirement village developer Vision Senior Living has begun construction at the former rugby league ground at Carlaw Park in Parnell, Auckland, where 300-400 people will live once the $120 million project is complete.
Vision founder Peter Bourke said demand remained strong in the retirement market despite the housing downturn.
“[Parnell] is not on the market and it’s [...]
Fairfax Media understands Chriscos adviser, investment bank UBS, has circulated an information memorandum to potential investors or buyers including Australian private equity funds. Chrisco, which also operates in Australia and Canada, is majority owned by founder Richard Bradley.
Launched in New Zealand 15 years ago, Chrisco expanded to Australia in 1997 and Canada in 2003. It [...]
Investigations into finance companies were one of the commissions two highest enforcement priorities this year, commission chairman Jane Diplock said in a speech to the Auckland District Law Society.
In the past two years, 17 finance companies have gone to the wall. More than $2 billion had been invested in the 17 companies, with some of [...]
Over the last 12 years Ive filed away mountains of photos, newspaper clippings, notes and reports.
Now that Ive almost completed my book, Mayor of Two Cities, I have to admit that trying to cover all the characters, projects, success stories and disasters of the last decade, just in Invercargill alone, would take at least three [...]
