Archive for September, 2008
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The BCI has just issued a call for expressions of interest in new community radio stations, with a deadline of October 23rd.
Expressions of Interest are an initial step in which groups encourage the BCI to issue a call for applications for specific stations (usually covering specific areas or audiences). Thus, ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Amidst a BBC report on Roma migration in Europe is this note on education policy in Hungary, which :
In Hungary, an earlier policy to give money to schools for the mentally disabled, to which a disproportionate number of Roma were sent, was abandoned when it was realised that it encouraged ...
Posted in Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Education, Society and culture | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
At least that's the message I take from the IBEC statement that "the current position whereby companies are not obliged to negotiate with unions was the only competitive advantage we have" (we being Ireland). For a long time we've been told that Ireland needs to have a low corporate tax ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
I'm not heading to the NCA meeting myself, but some friends have been asking about ways to make it easier to find sessions of interest. I therefore offer this entry as a way for people to note and track such sessions. I hope that many of my ICR/U Illinois colleagues ...
Posted in Education, Meta | 2 Comments »