Kouvolassa meneillään olevissa yt-neuvotteluissa on ollut tavoitteena 35 henkilötyövuoden vähennys opetuksesta ja kasvatuksesta. Image: Carmela Walder / Yle The higher parents‘ educational level and socioeconomic status, the more positive children feel about school, according to research published in public policy journal Yhteiskuntapolitiikka on Friday. Inequalities in educational opportunities begin before …
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Schools less important than parents in determining higher education aspirations
A new study shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education – as factors including parental aspirations, academic support from their mother and having a desk to work on are much more important. Published in the journal Educational …
Read More »Greenville native named a woman of influence
GREENVILLE — Cara Pan has long known that she wanted to get into the world of finance. Now the senior vice president and Chicago market executive for Bank of America, Pan was recently named a Women of Influence by the Chicago Business Journal and Bizwomen. Pan, 41, was raised in …
Read More »2019 Women of Influence: Heather L. Wilson
Member-in-Charge, IndianapolisFrost Brown Todd LLC When she became a partner at Indianapolis law firm Locke Reynolds in 2007, Heather Wilson felt like she’d made it. A decade after joining the firm fresh out of law school, she had built a successful labor and employment practice—while juggling responsibilities as a wife …
Read More »2019 Women of Influence: Marisol Sanchez
Vice President and General Counsel (North America)Endress+Hauser Inc. When Marisol Sanchez does something, she gives it her all. That bank job she took while she and her husband got settled after moving to Indiana from Puerto Rico? She became branch manager in short order, leading the top-producing sales team in …
Read More »2019 Women of Influence: Angela Carr Klitzsch
President, CEOEmployIndy Shortly after Joe Hogsett won the 2015 Indianapolis mayor’s race, Angela Carr Klitzsch sat down with him to share her ideas for improving the city’s workforce development infrastructure. She had no idea it was a job interview. Now, three years into her tenure as president and CEO of …
Read More »2019 Women of Influence: Bridget Boyle
Vice President and Human Resources Site HeadRoche Diagnostics Inc. Bridget Boyle was overseeing human resources at a small health care company in Arizona in 2010 when she got “an opportunity you don’t turn down”—leading HR for Roche Diagnostics’ 5,000-employee Indianapolis site. “It was a big stretch for me, but it …
Read More »2019 Women of Influence: Karen L. Alter
CEO and PartnerBorshoff Early in her career at Borshoff, Karen Alter thought the advertising and public relations firm’s owners had all the answers. “In my mind, they knew everything, had it all figured out,” she said. “They didn’t.” That’s a lesson Alter learned en route to joining their ranks. She …
Read More »CitizenM Expands Influence in Boston with its Upcoming Second Location
Will Speros • October 31, 2019 CitizenM Boston North Station CitizenM has revealed plans to launch its second location in Boston in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood. Located within the forthcoming mixed-use Parcel 12 development compromising separate office and hotel buildings installed above a retail podium and public plaza, the …
Read More »Gender Equality Is Within Our Reach
In January 2010, Rosie the Riveter appeared in the mailbox of my home near Seattle, flexing her iconic bicep on the cover of the Economist. The cover story struck a triumphant tone, reporting, “At a time when the world is short of causes for celebration, here is a candidate: Within …
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