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Some time ago Dutch academics lost their civil servant status. But in its place the language of ‘tenure-track’ and ‘tenure’ has entered Dutch academic life increasingly with American job titles, although the route to a permanent contract with tenure is quite diverse. ‘Academic freedom’ is officially recognized by article 1.6 of a regular law “Wet […]
America’s most vulnerable workers are doing hazardous work to help make private equity execs richer.
America’s most vulnerable workers are doing hazardous work to help make private equity execs richer.
An educational controversy Let’s break it down, my swing dance instructor used to say. We learned more complex moves not by watching him and his partner perform them over and over at music speed and trying to memorize the whole. We learned the move by reducing their actions to component parts. Do this, then this, then that. Where to put your weight on which foot. When to shift it — more subtle stuff than the eye could catch. I’m old. I learned to read decades earlier the same way with phonics. But sometime between then and now, the “whole word” method took hold. It’s been controversial. Controversial enough that the Washington Post Editorial Board saw fit to address it in its Sunday editorial: The so-called reading wars have been raging for decades now, sometimes pitting teachers against publishers or publishers against academicians — and also sometimes, as too many things do these days, pitting progressives against conservatives or Democrats against Republicans.
After years of appeasing its enemies, former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse believes the BBC's destruction from within has been spectacularly exposed
MAGA coming out swinging… Silicon Valley leftists getting their clocks cleaned due to their own Democrat Biden people increasing risk free rate in unprecedented fashion as a desperate monetarist attempt to help him with his inflation problem last election year and continuing …
No bailouts. Period. pic.twitter.com/Kj8yFCEtWJ
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) March 11, 2023
Will need to at least get something out of it from Dems… like maybe approval of the political delay in TMTG/DWAC merger finally … if they need a suggestion…
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: SNL, Star Trek: Picard, Bob's Burgers, James Gunn/Wonder Woman/Superman, Arrowverse, Doctor Who, and more!
THE bush tucker Walk About Café at Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Corindi Beach will be renovated and upgraded thanks to its operator, the Gurehlgam Corporation’s successful application to the Community and Place Funding program which has granted them $250,000. The Centre’s hospitality manager Bob Palmer and Wadjar Regional Indigenous Gallery creative director Alison Williams...
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THIS month Woolgoolga Red Cross members join a wave of action across Australia to support the everyday humanitarian work of the Australian Red Cross as part of the Annual Red Cross Calling campaign. Every year the Red Cross members ‘walk the talk’, driven by their belief that no one should face crises alone. Advertise with...
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THE Friends of Orara East are organising themselves into an action group that will stand up for the protection of wildlife and flora in their neighbouring native forests. The group of around 60 residents, mainly living in Upper Orara, Dairyville, Coramba and Nana Glen, in and around the Orara East forest catchment, gathered on Thursday...
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FOR the past couple of years Coffs Harbour RSL Sub-Branch has been the pleased recipient of Anzac Day and Remembrance Day commemorative handmade quilts crafted by Wendy Riitano from Bringelly NSW. Wendy provides the quilts to assist the Coffs Harbour RSL Sub-Branch to raise money for veterans’ welfare. Advertise with News of The Area today....
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TRAUMA teddies were to the rescue when Biannca M, granddaughter of Coffs Harbour Red Cross member Trish, was unexpectedly whisked off to hospital on Friday 24 February. Biannca was taken by ambulance to hospital after a medical issue, with her Nanna accompanying her. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...
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OLD Mate’s Burgers in Coffs Harbour had a cracking ‘Pay it Forward to Pete’s Place’ campaign during February, culminating in 190 burgers being pledged to the not-for-profit. “Customers, suppliers and the public jumped on board and far exceeded our expectations,” Old Mates co-owner Louise Wilson told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The...
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A corporation’s political strategies are not dictated by profit alone, and regulators concerned with corporate influence should monitor how corporations are governed
Campaigners at the global vigils for the closure of Guantánamo on March 8, 2023. Clockwise from top left: London, Washington, D.C., New York and Mexico City.
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The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and stop flooding Haiti’s markets with food that can be grown locally.
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Alabama is determined to keep Charles McCrory in prison even though the evidence against him has fallen apart.
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The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, where John Shipton, John Pilger, David McBride and other speakers demanded the prime minister tell Joe Biden to release the WikiLeaks publisher.
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COFFS Harbour’s youth community radio station 104.1 CHY FM is taking a particular interest in a mammoth tour by Kingswood. “It is the most extensive tour ever undertaken by an Australian band, coming to Moonee Beach Hotel on Saturday 1 April,” Angie Vaughan, Station Manager, 104.1 CHY FM told News Of The Area. Advertise with...
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IN opening his campaign launch speech to more than 100 people gathered at Coffs Harbour Surf Club on Tuesday 7 March, Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh first acknowledged the lifetime of service to the community that the almost-30-year incumbent before him, Andrew Fraser, had delivered to Coffs Harbour. For the region, as for the...
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DANCING her way to a $10,000 goal, Stars of Coffs Coast participant Emily McIlwraith raised $4,745 for Cancer Council at a Trivia Night on Friday 24 February at Coffs Harbour Racecourse. “It was such a good turnout,” Emily, a Sales Agent at Nolan Partners Real Estate, told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of...
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THE third Birth, Baby & Beyond Expo, to be held on Sunday 30 April 2023, will be held at the Jetty Beach House, running from 11am until 3pm. “The Expo is designed to showcase local services and products to young families in the community, with a focus on services from preconception up until around school...
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