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September 14, 2009
Companies - take note of ‘circulating’ brains
More immigrants from thriving Asian markets have been returning home to take up business opportunities, and Canadian companies need to take stock of the activity – something that Rosalie Tung calls ‘brain circulation.’ The SFU business professor says it’s becoming a bigger issue than brain drain or gain. Tung, an expert in international business, can talk about the phenomenon and will examine its impact at a forum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2 – 3:30 p.m. at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus, called Brain Circulation: Implications for Canada’s International Competitiveness. (Reservations required: http://community.vancouver.sfu.ca/)
Rosalie Tung, 778.782.3083; tung@sfu.ca
Conservatives unveil new EI legislation
New legislation that would extend employment insurance benefits for thousands could help avert a fall election if supported by the NDP. The bill is aimed at assisting workers who have paid into the system for at least 10 years while collecting few benefits. Marjorie Cohen is a political economist who can assess the proposed legislation as well as its impact on the political picture.
Marjorie Cohen, 604.294.2134 (h); mcohen@sfu.ca
The trouble with education
Educators generally agree that education serves three main purposes – socialization, academic and developmental – but institutions that try to incorporate all three competing aims will wind up doomed. That’s the cheerful disclosure of Kieran Egan, an education professor and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development at SFU. An expert on imagination and education, Egan will provide a solution to what he dubs education’s ‘trilemma’ at a seminar at SFU on Thursday, Sept. 17 (11:30 – 12:30 p.m., IRMACS studio, Applied Sciences Building, rm 10900) entitled Why Education is Difficult and Contentious. Egan is author of The Future of Education: Reimagining our Schools from the Ground Up (2008).
Kieran Egan, 778.782.4671; egan@sfu.ca
More immigrants from thriving Asian markets have been returning home to take up business opportunities, and Canadian companies need to take stock of the activity – something that Rosalie Tung calls ‘brain circulation.’ The SFU business professor says it’s becoming a bigger issue than brain drain or gain. Tung, an expert in international business, can talk about the phenomenon and will examine its impact at a forum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2 – 3:30 p.m. at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus, called Brain Circulation: Implications for Canada’s International Competitiveness. (Reservations required: http://community.vancouver.sfu.ca/)
Rosalie Tung, 778.782.3083; tung@sfu.ca
Conservatives unveil new EI legislation
New legislation that would extend employment insurance benefits for thousands could help avert a fall election if supported by the NDP. The bill is aimed at assisting workers who have paid into the system for at least 10 years while collecting few benefits. Marjorie Cohen is a political economist who can assess the proposed legislation as well as its impact on the political picture.
Marjorie Cohen, 604.294.2134 (h); mcohen@sfu.ca
The trouble with education
Educators generally agree that education serves three main purposes – socialization, academic and developmental – but institutions that try to incorporate all three competing aims will wind up doomed. That’s the cheerful disclosure of Kieran Egan, an education professor and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development at SFU. An expert on imagination and education, Egan will provide a solution to what he dubs education’s ‘trilemma’ at a seminar at SFU on Thursday, Sept. 17 (11:30 – 12:30 p.m., IRMACS studio, Applied Sciences Building, rm 10900) entitled Why Education is Difficult and Contentious. Egan is author of The Future of Education: Reimagining our Schools from the Ground Up (2008).
Kieran Egan, 778.782.4671; egan@sfu.ca