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...those who cannot. The country's largest union federation, Trades Union Congress, launched rightsforinterns.org.uk in late March to help get the word out that internships that offer no real training are exploitative - and illegal. So far, more than 2,500 people have joined a Facebook group that a British student started called Interns Must Be Paid the Minimum Wage...
...student of longtime Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante's, now a teacher herself, called her former instructor "a master artist." Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials...
Besides tour groups and Cambridge street performers seeking 15 minutes of fame and interfering with filming on a fairly regular basis, the student-written and directed soap opera is “always a big gigglefest,” Gillen added...
...incentivize student groups to make use of the my.harvard.edu events calendar, the SRC will raffle three $100 prizes in the pool of student groups that have uploaded event information by the end of the day today...
Fabrizio says that the UC’s increased online presence is part of a larger push towards making the UC more relevant to the student body—a goal that also includes last week’s lacrosse tailgate and red Harvard shirt dispersal and the creation of the UC study breaks, which will pilot next week in Adams and Mather Houses...