Poverty, conflict and discrimination against girls affects more than half of all children worldwide, putting 150 million at extreme risk of the factors that cut short their childhood, according to a new survey.
The University of the Western Cape has announced plans to launch a 100% online and accredited Management Development Programme.
The programme – which will launch on 31 May – has been designed to provide aspiring managers and first-line managers with the opportunity to acquire a background in the core functional areas of management, together with the skills necessary to advance into middle management careers, and also to progress to accredited graduate studies in Management or Finance.
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Forget everything you think you know about taking your business overseas. It's not just for big businesses, and it won't break the bank.
In fact, it's a smart and impressively cost-effective way to reach new levels in your niche.
Branching out of the United States can allow entrepreneurs to break into untapped markets and expand their companies in ways that aren't possible within national borders.
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Wells Fargo & Co. customers who didn’t consent to having 3.5 million accounts created by bankers trying to hit sales quotas are finally getting what a judge called “rough justice.”
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria agreed Wednesday to issue final approval for a $142 million class-action accord that will pay an average of $35 for account holders at the center of the company’s worst scandal in modern history.
As we've gone further along in one of the longest bull markets and economic expansions in modern history, it's becoming increasingly in-vogue to predict its demise. It's almost as if there is some immutable financial or economic law that expansions can only last so long. People love to hear definitive predictions, and we wish we could tell exactly when the bull market will end. Alas, the best we can do is share with you what changes we think will precipitate the end of the current expansion. If you see these few economic data points beginning to shift, then it's time to start worrying about the end of the bull market.
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The cornea, the outermost layer of the human eye, is important in focusing vision, but almost 5 million people suffer total blindness due to corneal scarring caused by burns, lacerations, abrasion or disease, according to researchers at Newcastle University.
Up to 10 million people worldwide require surgery to prevent corneal blindness from disease such as trachoma, an infectious eye disease, and that has led to a severe shortage of corneas available for transplant.
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The cabinets and furniture destroyed by Hurricane Maria have been removed, and the rooms of a cement house in this small northern island town have been power-washed, the "mudline" just a foot or so from the ceiling the only sign of how high the water rose during the September 2017 storm. Next, the yellow hard-hatted volunteers from All Hands and Hearts will sanitize the walls and floors, readying the home for the June arrival of university students and building trades professionals who will make the home move-in ready for the couple who lived there.
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Poverty, conflict and discrimination against girls affects more than half of all children worldwide, putting 150 million at extreme risk of the factors that cut short their childhood, according to a new survey.
The Second Annual "End of Childhood Report" released on Wednesday by the nongovernmental advocacy organization Save the Children examines the parts of the world where 1.2 billion children are most commonly subjected to those three most common causes of abuse and suffering.
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If you had visited Taji, Iraq in 2013 – well, you might have seen something peculiar. The site lies an hour north of Baghdad and is home to a US military base, with dusty floors and formidable concrete walls. It is in this brutal environment that, following a lethal explosion, a group of soldiers tenderly remembered their fallen comrade. He just so happened to be a robot.
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The White House has accused the entertainment industry of "hypocrisy" over its condemnation of Roseanne Barr following a racist tweet.
Its press secretary suggested liberal TV stars suffered no consequences for saying "the most horrible things" about President Donald Trump.
The president himself earlier tweeted to suggest a double standard by TV executives.
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Water molecules were known to exist as two distinct "isomers", or types, based on their slightly different properties at the atomic level.
By separating out the two isomers, researchers were able to show that they behave differently in the way that they undergo chemical reactions.
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