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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

Futurum

Social solutions for socio-economic issues Published: Extreme poverty is a global issue that affects hundreds of millions of people. The next step involves implementing schemes and programmes that can support people living in poverty and help them to achieve financial security. New England is no different.”

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Impact on Student Attainment: Ethnicity vs. Socio-economics

CSTEM

Is it ethnicity or socio-economic background? Their questions inspired me to challenge the audience to think about what it looks like when both play a major factor in student achievement and attainment. Socio-economic Student Attainment by the Numbers. This month, I’m exploring these great questions. A Complex Picture.

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nuSTEM Newsletter 43 – UN Sustainability Goals: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Northeastern University

For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. This week’s topic: UN Sustainability Goals – Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. Welcome to Newsletter 43! >>

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nuSTEM Newsletter 43 – UN Sustainability Goals: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Northeastern University

For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. This week’s topic: UN Sustainability Goals – Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. Welcome to Newsletter 43! >>

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

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International Women’s Day: Printable Resources

All About STEM

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity and all are invited on the 8th of March to get involved and forge a world that’s diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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