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Wall Street Still Finds Ways to Hire Foreigners

Robin Sidel April 15, 2009
Wall Street banks that have received money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, “TARP”, are employing innovative methods to work around some of the migrant labor restrictions: relocating workers to international offices. One of the stipulations of TARP is that recipients prove that they have tried to hire American workers for the same job and that foreigners aren’t replacing US citizens when...

Mobiles Give Africa's Farmers the Chance to Set Out Their Stall

David Smith January 9, 2009
The African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) and its partner Farm-Africa in Katine has developed a strategy that aims to empower the farmers of Katine in northeast Uganda by providing them with cell phones. Although cell-phone growth has exceeded initial estimates, Uganda still lags behind the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo where mobile subscriptions far exceed fixed-line...

An Alliance of Values

Tony Blair December 24, 2008
"To work effectively, globalization needs values like trust, confidence, openness and justice," explains former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in an opinion essay for the International Herald Tribune. It’s one of ten lessons Blair relayed as a visiting professor at Yale University, citing the need to "find a way to reconcile faith and globalization." If religion acts as a...

Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)

Tamar Lewin December 11, 2008
Higher education has become a global commodity, and students seek out both great bargains and the very best of brand names, reports Tamar Lewin for the New York Times. “Universities worldwide – many of them in Canada and England – are competing for the same pool of affluent, well-qualified students, and more American students are heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their...

Huddled Classes

November 21, 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released results of a 2006 study on how migrant children fare in host countries, based on performance in language, math and science. One conclusion is that “almost everywhere immigrant students fare worse than locals,” largely because of difficulties with language, yet first-generation immigrant children tend to have more motivation than...

Leading UK Universities Back Qatar Robotic Research

Anthea Lipsett November 11, 2008
Qatar has the third largest natural-gas reserves in the world; the per-capita share of those reserves is 55 times that of reserves in top-ranked Russia, which has a larger population. As a result, Qatar can afford to fund high-tech centers and research initiatives from the world’s leading universities. The latest initiative of the Qatar Foundation, an education charity, is a center for robotic...

From Cradle to Grave

Galal Nassar August 7, 2008
“Fear is now one of the most pervasive factors in perpetuating political regimes,” writes Galal Nassar in an opinion essay for Al-Ahram Weekly. Leaders who maintain control by increasing apprehension over imminent dangers benefit by ever keeping danger close at hand. Intimidation leads to corruption in communities, education systems and the workplace, which only reinforces fear and insecurity,...