Word: edu
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...Elizabeth Rasmussen, Director of Edu Exchange Service, the agency that recruited the Bolivian Decatur workers, defends the hotel firm, arguing that Decatur was overstaffed, and therefore had to slash hours, because they "miscalculated the number of workers they would need, not out of malicious intent...
...Mary Bauer, one of the lead attorneys on the Decatur case. "Middleman recruiters profit from trafficking as many workers as possible because they get paid per worker-employer match." By her calculations, The Accent Group, the U.S. firm Decatur subcontracted to find on-the-ground recruiters such as Edu Exchange's Rasmussen, made $350,000 on the Decatur contracts alone...
...that's precisely the experience members of this group were looking for. To get it, they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with...
...particular, over the past few months, both Google and Microsoft have started education sector initiatives aimed at signing universities to their new hosting services, customizing the look and feel of the service to fit each university’s needs and wishes. Microsoft’s "Windows Live @ Edu" has signed on almost 60 universities worldwide, and Google’s Gmail service is a success with consumers all over the world. In the next few weeks, fellow Ivy League school University of Pennsylvania will be choosing a vendor after a semester of consideration. We hope Harvard will follow suit...
...hundreds of schools” signed up for its ”Apps for Education” program, which supplies Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Talk customized to the schools’ specifications, according to Sheth. Microsoft’s platform, “Windows Live @edu,” is currently being used by five universities, and 57 institutions have enrolled worldwide, according to Nikki Reed, a spokeswoman for Microsoft. Major selling points in the companies’ pitches are larger inboxes for students—both Microsoft and Google offer more than 2GB of storage space?...