...Who is the Winner Between Vocational and General Education? No one can argue that education system is very important to modern day’s life. Most people in the world spend their very first decades with it. This is because we value its so much. However, we value it differently. Some said education teaches us not only academic knowledge, but also unconsciously help us to learn about social norm and moral. On the other hand, since the world become more and more competitive, we cannot argue about one of the most important functions of it, preparation for labor market. Each year, new workforces enter the labor market. Most of them just finished from education system and have no job experience. On the other side, companies prefer employees who already have some related job experience, so youth people are seen as second choice. According to World Bank, in 2012 where high-income OECD countries faced 5.7 percent unemployment rate, the unemployment rate of labor below 25 year olds was double at 18.3 percent. The difference between two indicators remains around double throughout the decade. Moreover, the problem of youth unemployment especially with high unemployment rate such as Spain where half of those below 25 year olds cannot find jobs. From these statistics we can say that youth European have the problem. However, vocational education can help them. With the idea of learning to working, vocational student have internship experience with companies since they were in school. So, they...
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...I believe that veterans should be taken better care of in the US than what is currently going on here. Veterans serve their country only to find when their contract is up, that they are faced with if not more, problems that the ordinary person deals with, in terms of healthcare and insurance. In places I’ve worked, I’ve personally witnessed veterans being treated worse than non vets. When is healthcare going to start seeing these citizens for whom they really are? If not for them, where would this country be? I have always been immursed in the political healthcare world. Beginning with being born into a family where both parents and an older brother are physicians. Throughout my childhood, I pondered various career paths which always led back to healthcare. Every job that I’ve held was in healthcare, starting when I was 17 years old, I worked as a physical therapy aide. In the military at 19, I worked as a medic and then a licensed practical nurse. Now I’m a registered nurse that has worked in every facet of nursing from organ transplant and surgery to the ICU and gerontology. This is my passion, It’s in my blood. For the better part of two years, I’d been contemplating a move from the nursing floor to a position in management, I made that move, worked as a nursing supervisor and assistant director of nursing and now I feel the time has come to move even further. I desire to start, be the CEO and the administrator of a long-term care facility specifically for veterans...
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...and are prepared to pay. A business operation is a manifest failure if the proceeds from the sales do not reimburse the businessman for all he has expended in producing the article. Thus the consumers in buying at a definite price determine also the height of the wages that are paid to all those engaged in the industries. 1. Wages Ultimately Paid By the Consumers It follows that an employer cannot pay more to an employee than the equivalent of the value the latter's work, according to the judgment of the buying public, adds to the merchandise. (This is the reason why the movie star gets much more than the charwoman.) If he were to pay more, he would not recover his outlays from the purchasers, he would suffer losses and would finally go bankrupt. In paying wages, the employer acts as a mandatory of the consumers as it were. It is upon the consumers that the incidence of the wage payments falls. As the immense majority of the goods produced are bought and consumed by people who are themselves receiving wages and salaries, it is obvious that in spending their earnings the wage earners and employees themselves are foremost in determining the height of the compensation they and those like them will get. 2. What Makes Wages Rise The buyers do not pay for the toil and trouble the worker took nor for the length of time he spent in working. They pay for the products. The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can perform in an hour, the higher is, consequently...
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...Marijuana and Education In today’s economy, it’s very important to do the things necessary in order to get a degree and open up greater opportunities. Going to college and pursuing what one wants to become creates a goal that every student should try to accomplish. Due to its harmful nature, marijuana should not be legalized because it can cause damage to the brain. Legalizing marijuana would only bring more problems to our already fragile youth. The world before education, some might wonder what that might have been like? In the early stages of education, and anonymous writer said on wikipedia.org, “Some forms of traditional knowledge were expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, and songs, without the need for a writing system”(“Right to education”). These people learned through speech and visuals without the resources to excel and proceed into higher levels of education. From this, the young were not expected to advance into a higher degree of study. Once writing became available, these stories, legends, folklore, etc. were more easily passed along to future generations. This helpful finding made the stories more accurate and believable. Current students now have an advantage because of the resources that help attain an outstanding education. Some of the resources that show up in the today’s youthful generation that helps them to succeed include libraries, books, and computers. Just these three things can improve student learning because they provide...
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...does not mean finishing in a particular field, rather it is the beginning of a real journey in the life of students. Performance in the school can be measured not only through awards received during graduation or through grades obtained, rather through works where he maybe after graduation. One of the concerns that a teacher, particularly in the college, ought to have is about his former students’ whereabouts after graduation. How are they employed now? It is not a simple case of deriving psychological satisfaction, through, from knowing for instance that a former student has hurdled a government examination or has obtained a high-paying job, or have established a viable business of his own. Perhaps what is important to him is the concern for his former students’ current situation and the disturbing possibility that failure might have filled the path of some of them. A teacher has to care. He is a torch-bearer of a system. The educational system which has the obligation from time to time to assess its performance in order to serve better the goods of society, his former students included. Changes however are a natural part of any system because education is an on-going process. A school system however satisfactorily cannot remain static. It is a living organism keenly sensitive to political, social and economic changes. A graduate’s performance is a reflection of the school from where he graduated. It is one of a determining factor whether the school is offering a quality...
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...Asia Spending Too Little on Poor Introduction Asia, predominantly consisted of developing nations are experiencing rapid economic growth in the past decades. However, for the majority of the population, quality of life have not improved accordingly. In most countries, social security policies are under-budgeted which could be used help the lower-income, unemployed, elderly, or those stricken by natural disaster. As one of the most developed nation in the region, Singapore still fell behind on social protection spending. Combined with rapidly aging population, Singaporeans have the highest savings rate in the world. Fearing that the government will not be able to help them in the future (Quasem 2013). From the extract of the article above, this paper will underlie the definition and academic analysis of Singapore’s underspending on its social protection policy. Which will include a discussion on its current GDP, Economic inequality, fiscal policy, and subsidy. Even though the article discusses on the problem as a continent, with the given world count limitation, the essay will only look on Singapore alone. A concluding statement will follow with an appropriate argument of the consequence of the policy currently at hand. Discussion With $65,048 per capita GDP, Singapore is known for having the fifth highest per capita GDP in the world (Singstat.gov.sg 2005). GDP, or gross domestic product, is a measure of the total value production of goods in services within a nation...
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...credit, but with the on-going policy of the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria on micro-financing the macroeconomic objective of reduced unemployment, if not full employment will become a reality in Nigeria. The microfinance policy has empowered the many microfinance institutions to provide credit to the informal sector. We therefore advise that the Nigerian Government and all relevant stakeholders continue in their quest towards reducing unemployment while they give their undivided support, in making sure that the informal sector continues to enjoy access to credit to finance its activities and accomplish its goal of unemployment reduction. Introduction Unemployment is one of the developmental problems that face every developing economy in the 21st century. International statistics portray that industrial and service workers living in developing regions account for about two-thirds of the unemployed. (Patterson et al, 2006). The Nigerian economy since the attainment of political independence in 1960 has undergone fundamental structural changes. The domestic structural shifts have however not resulted in any significant and sustainable economic growth and...
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...be copied and/or published in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written permission of EIM. EIM does not accept responsibility for printing errors and/or other imperfections. Contents 1 Theoretical framework 7 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 The transition process: Heuristical tool 8 1.3 Differences between start-ups: Dependent employee versus other types 10 1.4 Demarcation 11 1.5 Contents of the report 12 2 Entrepreneurship in the EU 15 2.1 Facts and figures 15 2.2 Entrepreneurs in the EU 20 2.3 Previous experience of starting entrepreneurs in the EU 24 3 Synthesis 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Legal definition of self-employed 31 3.3 General requirements related to start-ups 33 3.4 Financing the start-up of a business 34 3.5 Insolvency and seizure procedures 35 3.6 Social security systems in general 35 3.7 Social security: Unemployment 36 3.8 Social security: Sickness 39 3.9 Social security: Disability 40 3.10 Social security: Medical costs 40 3.11 Social security: Old age 41 3.12 Social security: Pregnancy and child care 42 3.13 Taxation 43 3.14 Labour Law 44 3.15 Private labour contracts 44 3.16 Miscellaneous topics 45 3.17 Hiving-offs 46 4 View of the obstacles in each Member State 49 4.1 Belgium 49 4.2 Denmark 51 4.3 Germany 52 4.4 Greece...
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...employment activities have greater job security than others. The government civil service has more job security than many occupations in the private sector. Previous: | Job Satisfaction, Job Rotation, Job Placement | Next: | Job Sharing, Job Shop, Job Specification | * Unanswered Questions * New Answers * Q&A Categories * Coupons * Guides * Sign In * | * Sign Up * Home * Search * Settings * Top Contributors * Help Center HomeAnswers ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form The Jargon File's Guide to Hacker Slang: job security Top Home >Library >Technology >Hacker Slang When some piece of code is written in a particularly obscure fashion, and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i.e., by making himself indispensable for maintenance). This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says “job security”, the other one may just nod. Wikipedia on Answers.com: Job security Top Home >Library >Miscellaneous >Wikipedia Job security is the probability that an individual will keep his or her job; a job with a high level of job security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of becoming unemployed. Factors affecting job security Job security...
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...8%. Usually growth rates are positive, but they don’t always have to be, for example in 2009 the US growth rate was a -2.4%, which means a decrease in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) during any given year. Let’s talk about modern economic growth, modern economic growth is defined as “sustaining an ongoing increases in living standards that can cause dramatic increases in the standard of living within less than a single human lifetime.” So for example of modern economic growth, our era that we live in now is filled with technology that can be used for almost everything that we do in our lifetime. Everyone is on the Internet 24/7, genetic engineering is at an all-time high, and our exploration of space has been better than ever. With all of the new and...
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...Poverty Context Analysis of Fisherfolk Communities at Sitakunda 1. Context Analysis: Fisheries play an important role in the economy of Bangladesh in terms of nutrition, employment and income generation. The World Bank and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (1998) state in their publication ‘Bangladesh 2020’, that 80 percent of the population’s animal protein comes from fish. Despite the fact that the fishing industry accounts for only 8 percent of agricultural GDP, its employment potential is considered vast. It is estimated that the sector fully employs approximately 1.5 million people and provides part-time employment for an additional 11 million (The World Bank and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 1998). According to Habib (1999), the fisheries industry contributes employment to 12% of the total working population in various forms of livelihoods activities. In the mid 1990s fisheries contributed about 10 percent of Bangladesh’s export earnings. The Meghna Estuary Study (May 1998, first draft) estimates the population living in coastal marine fishing villages at the end of the 20th Century at 7.3 million. According to the same source, in these areas fishing is the main income earning activity for 350,000 households (i.e. 22%), and 96,000 boats are operated by 350,000 fishermen. “Traditionally, it was the low caste Hindus who engaged in the fishing profession: the Jaladas, the Malos, the Malla Burmans, all popularly known as the Jeles, the Naiyas or...
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...Centre…………………... 8 PEST Analysis……………………………………………………………... 11 Communication…………………………………………………………….. 13 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………. 14 Bibliography……………………………………………………………….. 15 Terms of Reference As a part of the FETAC course we are required to do a research on the organisation we had Work Experience in are familiar with. The purpose of this project is: ✓ To investigate and analyze the organisation and the industry that organisation belongs to ✓ To outline the environmental factors that might affect the organisation ✓ To describe the structure of the organisation ✓ To describe the ownership and the size of organisation ✓ To describe the internal and external communication within this organisation It has to be submitted to Business Administration Tutor - Eimear Hynes on 23rd March 2010. Introduction The Congress Centres Network, formerly the ICTU Network of Unemployed Centres, came into being during an era of mass unemployment in 1980’s. The Centres were established to provide support, resources and a range of services to the growing numbers of unemployed workers, many of whom were trade union members. Centres also served as campaigning organisations on issues around unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. From the very start Centres have been closely associated with local Trades Councils who have been largely responsible for their establishment...
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...school, same opportunities, and yet some had different amounts of work. All his life our young hero wanted to be special, wanted to escape the disease of average-ism. He wanted people to remember him, he wanted to be famous. Unfortunately our hero lived in a Socialist society and he ended up fading into the background. Socialism, as defined by the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is "any way of organising a society in which the government takes control of major industries and distributes goods equally." Keep this in mind it will be important...
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...Australian Council for Educational Research ACEReSearch LSAY Research Reports Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) 3-1-1999 The effects of part-time work on school students Lyn Robinson ACER Follow this and additional works at: http://research.acer.edu.au/lsay_research Part of the Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons Recommended Citation Robinson, Lyn, "The effects of part-time work on school students" (1999). LSAY Research Reports. Longitudinal surveys of Australian youth research report ; n.9 http://research.acer.edu.au/lsay_research/18 This Report is brought to you by the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) at ACEReSearch. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSAY Research Reports by an authorized administrator of ACEReSearch. For more information, please contact repository@acer.edu.au. Published 1999 by The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124, Australia. Copyright © 1999 Australian Council for Educational Research ISBN 0 86431 324 1 &RQWHQWV Tables ...................................................................................................................................................... iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... v INTRODUCTION................................................................................
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...CHAPTER I- NATURE, SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY IN ECONOMICS NATURE OF ECONOMICS ECONOMICS- Comes from the Greek oikonomia means management of a household, administration is a social science that deals with efficient allocation of scarce resources to satisfy the unlimited wants and needs. SOCIAL SCIENCE Is the field of scientific knowledge and academic scholarship that explore social groups and, more generally, human society RESOURCES Things use to produce other things to satisfy people wants WANT is something that is desired. It is said that people have unlimited wants, but limited resources NEED Is something that is necessary for survival (such as food and shelter) SCOPE OF ECONOMICS TWO MAJOR BRANCHES OF ECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS Examines either the economy as a whole or its basic subdivisions or aggregates, such as the government, household, and business sectors MICROECONOMICS Looks at specific economics units. At this level of analysis, the economist observes details of an economics unit, or very small segment of the economy ANALYTICAL TOOLS AND M ETHODOLOGY USED IN ECONOMICS rational self-interest means that given a certain condition, individuals try to minimize the expected cost for a benefit or maximize the expected benefit with a cost. Opportunity cost It is cost associated with opportunities that are foregone when...
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