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Adcock full-year profit up, unveils BEE deal
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 16 hours ago
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South Africa's number two drugs maker Adcock Ingram posted a 16,1% rise in full-year profit bolstered by volumes growth and price increases and said it expected further volume growth. Adcock, which makes painkillers such as Panado and flu remedy Corenza...
Tags: volumes growth, Adcock Ingram, South Africa, Cape Town, Economy of South Africa, South African law, Affirmative action, Black Economic Empowerment, Discrimination, Business Finance
New unit needed to ensure pay equity
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Speaking today, Ms Jackson said it has been 40 years since equal pay was legislated by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and more than 20 years since the Affirmative Agency was set up later replaced by the Equal Opportunity for Women...
Tags: pay gap, Australia, Sydney, Anti-racism, Discrimination, Equal pay for equal work, Equal pay for women, Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, Employment compensation, Gender studies, Affirmative action, Social Issues, Employment, Minimum wage, Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard, Male￢ﾀﾓfemale income disparity in the United States, Labor
School Board member: Race a legitimate issue in curriculum battle
Boca Raton :: FL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility For three months, the battle over Palm Beach County 's academic initiatives focused on teacher and parent complaints about too much testing and demands on teachers to follow strict curriculum practices. Then last week the debate added another dimension...
Tags: Patrick J. Franklin, black students, schools board, white students, School Board, Boca Raton, Affirmative action, Socioeconomics, Tracking, No Child Left Behind Act, Race and intelligence controversy, Education reform, Achievement gap in the United States, Education, Social Issues
GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
Banjul :: Gambia | 3 days ago
Credibility The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources...
Tags: African Union, synthesis report, Fatou Kargbo, african women, Beijing Platform, Gambia, Banjul, Affirmative action, Poverty, Sexual health, Fourth World Conference on Women, Reproductive rights, Social Issues
The right to a great public education
East Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility To ease the budget crisis, one state after another is taking an ax to higher education...Cruel because it denies students the right to a decent education. Shortsighted because how will this generation of students get prepared to compete globally or even...
Tags: public education, East Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Affirmative action, Social inequality, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Education
Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Kathleen Martin stood in front of a white board covered with math problems, her class clustered at her feet. As they talked through the solutions together, the students repeated the headings over each problem on the board: “Algebra and Function,” “Probability,”...
Tags: Leroy Anderson Elementary School, elementary schools, Santa Clara County, hispanic students, San Jose, Socioeconomics, Moreland School District, Race and intelligence controversy, Achievement gap in the United States, Affirmative action, Education
Manyi vows to get tough over BEE
Cape Town :: South Africa | 4 days ago
Credibility The government will get tough on companies who do not comply with affirmative action and broad-based black economic empowerment laws, Labour Department director general Jimmy Manyi warned on Thursday. Speaking at a branch meeting of the Sandton African...
Tags: Jimmy Manyi, labour brokers, South Africa, Cape Town, Eskom, Nicey, Labour Party, Affirmative action, Labor
Massey undertakes pay and employment equity review (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 days ago
Credibility A pay and employment equity review is to be carried out by Massey University in partnership with the tertiary education sector unions. The study will try to determine the extent to which gender affects women's pay and employment experiences, and find...
Tags: Massey University, employment equity, Mr Davis, New Zealand, Auckland, Employment law, Employment, Discrimination, Affirmative action, Anti-racism, Labor, Social Issues, Education
Disowned bumis the real face of '1Malaysia'
Klang :: Malaysia | 5 days ago
Credibility We must be the only country in the world where education opportunities are dependent on skin colour...This bumi/non-bumi divide will eventually spoil the racial harmony you have now. If East Malaysians are smart, they should throw this poisoned chalice...
Tags: East Malaysians, real face, Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin, Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia, Klang, 1Malaysia, United Malays National Organisation, Sabah, Discrimination, Affirmative action, Bumiputera
Oxbridge selection 'should be on background'
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Research conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) has said that the prestigious institutions are "reluctant" to discriminate in favour of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds because they do not want to become involved in "social...
Tags: Higher Education Policy Institute, social engineering, United Kingdom, Oxford, University of Oxford, Coimbra Group, Meritocracy, Oxbridge, Affirmative action, University of Cambridge, Education, Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Oxbridge rivalry, English culture, University College London, Russell Group
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