Upon being offered a job, the first step should be to pause and enjoy your good fortune. (Jobs are pretty scarce,
if you haven’t heard.) Then, to start salary negotiations, toss out a
ridiculously high dollar figure. The request may seem like a joke
($100K for an administrative assistant gig? Ha!), but there are
indications it’ll help you get more money regardless.
Monday, 12 September 2011
How American Colleges Can Better Serve Chinese Applicants
The ethical debate over whether to use paid agents to recruit
students abroad has polarized college admissions officials in the
United States. No one disputes that the best interest of students must
be protected, but their voices are conspicuously absent from the
discussion.
For a Chinese-language newspaper, I recently did a report on the use of such agents in China. A study done at Iowa State University and published in the Journal of College Admission suggests that most Chinese undergraduates enrolled at American colleges had relied on intermediaries to help them navigate the admissions process. Through dozens of interviews with agents, students, and experts, it became clear to me why that is. A tremendous disconnect exists between Chinese students and American universities.
http://chronicle.com/article/How-American-Colleges-Can/128861/
For a Chinese-language newspaper, I recently did a report on the use of such agents in China. A study done at Iowa State University and published in the Journal of College Admission suggests that most Chinese undergraduates enrolled at American colleges had relied on intermediaries to help them navigate the admissions process. Through dozens of interviews with agents, students, and experts, it became clear to me why that is. A tremendous disconnect exists between Chinese students and American universities.
http://chronicle.com/article/How-American-Colleges-Can/128861/
What the Meaning of ‘Is Is’ Is
Redundant is almost always hurled as a negative epithet, but
repetition can be an effective rhetorical device. Shorn of all
redundancy, Shakespeare’s “most unkindest cut of all” would be pretty
vanilla, and the ad slogan “Raid Kills Bugs Dead” would become the
ho-hum “Raid Kills Bugs.” Meanwhile, Gertrude Stein’s “A rose is a rose
is a rose is a rose” would have to be completely erased because the
quotation is nothing but redundancy. (Completely erased is redundant as well—something is either erased or it isn’t. But I felt I needed the emphasis provided by completely.)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/09/11/what-the-meaning-of-is-is-is/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/09/11/what-the-meaning-of-is-is-is/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en
Christians in China: Is the country in spiritual crisis?
Many of China's
churches are overflowing, as the number of Christians in the country
multiplies. In the past, repression drove people to convert - is the
cause now rampant capitalism?
It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today, but no-one denies the numbers are exploding.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14838749
$5 Friday: How to Eat Healthy for Five Bucks a Pop
How much does it really cost to eat healthy? The organizers of a new
slow-food challenge say you can do it for five dollars a person per
meal.
Launching Sept. 1 with a Day of Action, the "$5 Challenge" is meant to inspire people to cook slow-food meals — using whole foods rather than processed ones — for as much as it would cost to buy a combo meal at a fast-food restaurant. The idea is to "take back the 'value meal'," according to the Slow Food USA website.
Launching Sept. 1 with a Day of Action, the "$5 Challenge" is meant to inspire people to cook slow-food meals — using whole foods rather than processed ones — for as much as it would cost to buy a combo meal at a fast-food restaurant. The idea is to "take back the 'value meal'," according to the Slow Food USA website.
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Great digital expectations
Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order
TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors for its bookshelves. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.
http://www.economist.com/node/21528611
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