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John and Annie understand this as well as anyone. Annie served on the UC last year and worked hard on issues ranging from peer advising to interhouse transfers, but became disillusioned with what she calls the “isolation” in which the UC sometimes works. She decided to focus her energy on her other activities like the Best Buddies Club, CityStep, and the Prefect Program this year...
...added.HBS is not the only top business school reexamining its grade disclosure policy. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—the three other peer schools that have a non-disclosure policy—are also reviewing to what extent students should be allowed to show potential employers their grades. Ruback, who is also a senior associate dean at HBS and Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, said in an interview yesterday that the review of HBS?...
...Despite a sizable idle army, indigenous folk aren't equipped to fill all Moree's job vacancies. Even if they turn against peer pressure and the welfare culture, getting the unemployed "job ready" takes time. Students, recent school leavers, those changing industries and mature people who have never worked, all come under the AES's watch. At different times of the day, Moree's AES resembles a cross-generational drop-in center. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, Dallas Brown takes a minibus to local schools and collects around a dozen younger teenagers who take part in a program called...
...full-time during holidays. At the end of the program, students gain a certificate in financial services. Some, like Wayne Langenbaker, 17, from Tamworth, are offered full-time jobs. "The traineeship and working at the Commonwealth Bank has given me great confidence," says Langen-baker, who also found peer support at school from the other trainees. Career banker Bruce McQualter, an ANZ Bank regional manager based in Tamworth, is a staunch AES ally and is proud that having lived his life in this part of the country he now has the opportunity to help Aboriginal people. "The program...
...wages are definitely one of the strong points of the contract,” Snegroff said, calling the wage hikes “unprecedented.” But she also said that Harvard’s wages still will not be on par with those offered at its local peer institutions, such as Boston College, Boston University, and MIT. “It brings [Harvard’s janitors] closer, but, in a few years, those schools will be making a lot more,” she said. Under the contract, custodians working the late-night shift will receive...