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Just when the nation has a need for more workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, research at Cornell and the University of Texas, Austin, finds that women have often found those fields inhospitable, and left for other kinds of jobs.

o Report's authors say forced labour is an issue right across the UK economy. o Forced labour in the UK is traceable to specific business models.

The University of Salzburg, with its 18,000 students and 2,800 employees, is not a "mass university" and it is distinguished by a very good teacher/student ratio.

At Umeå University's Annual Autumn ceremony at the end of October, Malin Sund was inaugurated as Sweden's first female professor of surgery.

The outsourcing of airport jobs that once sustained middle-class careers has left many airport workers in jobs characterized by insecurity and low wages, according to a new UC Berkeley study released Monday, Nov.

Working dogs make a considerable financial contribution to Australia's rural sector, providing an impressive fivefold return on investment.

Employees who work from home one to three days per week called 'hybrid teleworkers', are more productive than workers who do none, according to a new study undertaken by the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne and Auckland University of Technology. New Zealand.

23 Oct 2013 The University of Manchester is playing host to 300 local schoolchildren today (Wednesday) for TeenTech - an initiative created by TV personality Maggie Philbin to raise awareness of career opportunities in science and engineering.

Basel, October 22, 2013 - Novartis is pleased to announce that it has been named among the Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute.

Employers are risking losing talented employees due to unsuitable benefits packages, according to a new report from the University of Liverpool.

The benefits department in University Human Resources has prepared a variety of charts and publications designed to help employees and their families choose medical, dental and vision plans for 2014.

A pioneering project to help local young people improve their literacy skills has begun thanks to a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council and local secondary schools.

Sustained by a passion to improve people's lives, Howard Bremer's enduring commitment to innovation fueled his work and his life.

The growing "McDonaldisation" of healthcare in the UK is leaving many doctors with "an underlying sense of powerlessness", new research has warned.

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Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN 's first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva 2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva.

International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General Guy Ryder described global challenges to work and employment when he spoke at the ILR School's Worker Institute in New York City Sept.

A new research networking portal designed to provide crucial career development exposure for female scientists and engineers within Chicagoland's research community was launched today as part of the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM professional development program. The Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM is a joint initiative of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

The number of people in Britain who are using the internet has risen, reaching 78% of the population aged 14 years and over as compared with 59% in 2003.

ANN ARBOR-Michigan's economy is actually doing better than most people think, says a University of Michigan economist. Instead of lagging behind the national average in job creation from the first quarter of last year to the first quarter of 2013, Michigan exceeded U.S. growth and added twice as many jobs during that time as has been widely reported.

Adultery, libel, bribery, attempted murder: Cambridge University's criminal underbelly has been exposed after painstaking research on its Vice-Chancellor's Court records from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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27 Sep 2013 Concerns over discrimination in the UK general practitioner examination are raised in a study by The University of Manchester published on bmj.com today.

Changing coaches' behaviour to give children a more positive experience of playing sport has been found to change children's intentions to drop out of sporting activity, according to sports scientist

25 September 2013 Stuttering is going undiagnosed in Australian classrooms, causing a raft of lifelong social anxiety problems, warns a world-leading University of Sydney expert.

Since 2011, MIT faculty from several disciplines have collaborated on a unique research project, Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE); the aim is to see how U.S. strengths in innovation can be turned into new production capabilities, to spur growth and new jobs. Their findings will be presented tomorrow at an MIT conference.

17 Sep 2013 Researchers from The University of Manchester have discovered a rising tide in part-time employment affecting ethnic minority people, alongside stubbornly high overall inequalities between White and non-White groups.

The modern Cambridge cluster began in 1960 with the foundation of Cambridge Consultants, which was formed to "put the brains of Cambridge University at the disposal of industry.

ANN ARBOR-Will 2014 mark the beginning of the end for employer-sponsored health insurance as we know it? Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, policy experts have debated that very question.

With rising competition for jobs, and increasing pressure to excel in the workplace, a healthy work-life balance is hard to achieve.

06 Sep 2013 University of Manchester experts have called for the abolition of the rail franchising system which they say allows Train Operating Companies to profiteer from hidden public subsidies, in a new report.

In the newly released book titled "Fanged Fan Fiction - Variations on TWILIGHT, TRUE BLOOD and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES", Umeå University associate professors of literature Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Malin Isaksson examine the major phenomenon of vampire-themed fan fiction.

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio.

Europe's young people are facing a bleak future with a fragmented and precarious labour market that is only just beginning to be appreciated in the West, according to a paper to be presented this Thursday to the European Sociological Association's conference in Turin.

What often separates professional photographers from amateurs is their mastery of lighting. Lighting can control what parts of an image draw your attention, or whether an object looks expensive or cheesy.

People can reliably select the winners of classical music competitions based on silent video recordings of performances, according to new research from UCL. However, the study also finds that neither classical music novices nor professional musicians are able to identify the winners of competitions based on sound recordings alone.

August 19, 2013 Also known as "The Pride of Minnesota," the Marching Band is a 121-year tradition at the University of Minnesota, delighting audiences since 1892.

Untold Stories bring the work of Sussex charities to life A new University of Sussex project is giving local charities the opportunity to promote themselves and students the chance to use their media skills.

On an average weekday, Americans spend more time working than doing anything else—sleeping, engaging in leisure activities or enjoying the company of loved ones.