December, 2010
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Dec 10
Happy Holiday Wishes from Educaedu
Warmest Holiday Wishes and a Happy New Year from All at Educaedu
Feliz Natal, Feliz Navidad, Feliz Nadal, Merry Christmas, Wesołych Świąt, Joyeux Noël, 聖誕節快樂, 메리 크리스마스, Շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ, С Рождеством, Frohe Weihnachten …!
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Dec 10
Professional Santa Claus Training – Course of the Week
Source: NYDailyNews.com
Those who celebrate Christmas remember the joy of sitting on Santa’s knee in a shopping mall during Christmas holiday. Every year, thousands of men around the world are hired to be someone’s Santa for the season. Some veteran Santas with extensive CVs hired by shopping malls in the US can earn as much as $15,000 per season. Most Santa companies recruit Santas very carefully and will almost always ask what Christmas means to you. If you truly love giving gifts to others, spreading Christmas cheer, are good with small children and can smile for long periods of time, a Santa Claus job may be for you! Also, having a natural beard (dyed white or gray) is often a huge plus as well.
If you think you match the requirements but you’d like to polish your skills, there are several schools for Santa Claus’s that will provide you with appropriate training:
The Charles W. Howard (CWH) Santa Claus School in Midland, USA is a non-profit organization, established in 1937 and is the longest continuously running Santa Claus School in the world. The mission of the school is to provide students with the necessary resources that allow them to further define and improve their individual presentations of Santa Claus.
Professional Santa Claus Training provided by Santa School in Calgary, Canada will elevate your performance, sharpen your abilities and help you become the best Santa available. You will be trained in acting, voice, character development, presentation and scripting.
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Dec 10
OECD’s Top 10 Countries by Education Performance
This week, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) announced the results of the survey of education performance 2010. The survey was taken in over 70 of the most developed countries in the world and surveyed half of a million 15-year-old students. The survey consisted of reading literacy, mathematics and science sections. OECD tests students for their preparedness for future challenges and ability to analyze, reason and communicate effectively. Hong-Kong China, Korea and Finland were in the top 3 in reading literacy. The next rankings for reading were: Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and Netherlands. Click here to see the results for your country.
Overall OECD findings include:
• Girls read better than boys in every country, by an average of 39 points, the equivalent to one year of schooling.
• Students do well regardless of their socio-economic background.
• High performing school systems tend to prioritize teacher pay over small class sizes.
• Countries where students repeat grades tend to have worse results overall. Repeating grades is most common in Belgium and France.
• Schools with good discipline and better student-teacher relationships do better.
• The percentage of students who said they “read for pleasure” dropped from 69% in 2000 to 64% in 2009.
More information is available at www.oecd.org/edu/pisa/
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Dec 10
Cupcake Confection and Design – Course of the Week
Who loves cupcakes? Eveyone. And why not, they are delicious, mini, just-for-you, adorable little cakes that come in many flavors and colors. They are a perfect canvas for artistic creation and are relatively inexpensive to confect. Little cupcakes can be so pleasing to the eye that you almost don´t want to eat them…almost.
Over the last several years, cupcake shops have been springing up everywhere. Being a more fashionable food, they have become popular at parties, social events and have even started to replace wedding cakes. In light of this popular pastry, we decided to introduce a Cupcake Design Course of the Week.
Here are a few cupcake courses to try:
Cakes 4 Fun in London, UK offers a new course for chocolate-lovers, appropriately called Chocolate Cupcakes. You will learn how to make decorations from a variety of different chocolate mediums. It’s suitable for all skill levels.
The Original Cupcake Course is a day-long intensive course in Chelmsford, UK by The Gourmet Cupcake Company. This course includes: icing techniques, coloring and flavoring, piping perfect buttercream swirls and an introduction to sugarcraft and flower modeling.
Gourmandise Desserts in Culver City, USA offers Gourmet Cupcakes Baking Course. You will learn three simple and sweet cupcakes recipes, including instruction on fillings and the power-house smooth buttercream cupcake.
Yum!!
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Dec 10
Meet Joe Byoung Wook
Joe visiting the cathedral in La Plata, Argentina
Following Educaedu’s expansion into Asia, we have a new addition to the Educaedu group, Joe Byoung Wook, who has recently joined our office in Buenos Aires. Joe is from Seoul, South Korea and will be responsible for developing the Korean education directory for Educaedu. Joe states with pride that Korea is among the world’s most technologically-advanced and digitally-connected countries, and Seoul is said to the “tech capital of the world”.
Joe is studying Journalism at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He is specializing in Media and Film Studies and his life goal is to make movies. Currently Joe is taking a gap year from his studies to work with us in Argentina. He believes that the time he’s going to spend in Latin America will help him with his future work as a film director.
Joe’s favorite sport in baseball. Baseball is one of the most popular spectator sports in South Korea, and South Korea is considered one of the best baseball countries in international competition. Joe cheers for his favorite baseball team called LG TWINS.
Favorite movie: Knocking on heaven’s door directed by Thomas Jahn
Favorite novel: Norwegian Wood Murakami Haruki
Favorite food: Samgyeopsal (Korean barbecue)
Welcome Joe!
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Dec 10
Does Earning More Increase Happiness?
Does earning a higher salary really make us happier? This issue is nagging many of us: how to balance the desire of having a satisfying job and a satisfying paycheck? It’s usually a dilemma that confronts every college student when pursuing a career path. How much is enough and how little is too little is a personal decision based on one´s values, priorities and spending habits. However, as a recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found, there is a magic number that links income and satisfaction.
This study indicated that $75,000 USD is the yearly salary that seems to satisfy most people in the U.S. The study suggested that earning above 75 K had little influence on the satisfaction level, but that less than 75 K decreased satisfaction levels.
When it comes to studying those whom sought out high incomes were more likely to major in fields like business, engineering and economics. And those whom high income was not a priority pursued majors in liberal arts and social sciences.
For most, choosing a major is one of the hardest decisions in young adulthood. Students should think not only about their priorities and values now but also the possibility that those priorities can change later on.
Best of luck, those are hard decisions!
Source: The Economic Times www.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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