tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190893832024-03-14T00:48:02.327+09:00Cross-Cultural ReviewsCanadian SME International Trade and Marketing - writings upon readings and continued curiousity
in the realms of cross cultural business. Some of my opinions
are not my own,
but I would fancy to say
nearly all of them
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to the various authors.
Deming disciple.
I stubbornly persist.Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.comBlogger1097125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-45204336311487091102015-10-13T23:53:00.002+09:002015-10-14T00:33:45.809+09:00Denial101x: Week 1 Applying FLICC to Climate Deniers<div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.76px; text-align: justify;">
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I don't think its uncommon to engage with deniers and feel surrounded by them. For example, the story of the Tuareg on Al Jazeera called Orphans of the Sahara reinforced what I already knew about the highland region desertification in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. I'd been there in 2012 to confirm on my own what has been happening to the world's deserts. This reinforces what Alan Savory told me: that most of the world's deserts are man-made and ever expanding. However when I shared this first hand knowledge and experience with a European coworker in China his reaction was to discount all of my firsthand evidence and reacted to the documentary as, "they've tinted the film to make it look drier than it is." Would that be a conspiracy theory? It's clear that first hand evidence means nothing to most people if they've already made up their minds and anything you try to present such as clear evidence and expertise only irritates them. Most people couldn't care less. Isn't that the cause of the predicament?</div>
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Even a PhD in history would discount what research I have been reading with "the animals and plants will be able to adapt to increased heating." Well no, they can't the research shows that the majority of species cannot and will not as even wild bees are collocated to specific habitats not relocating rather going extinct. Also, the rapid decline in amphibians alone in mountainous previously cool regions are an indicator that adaptation is no real opportunity for them. In addition coffee and tea plantations I have personally visited in India and Sri Lanka in 2001 have since seen enormous declines in production - these have no higher elevations they can reach to escape climate impacts and their crops are increasingly ruined and their labourers starving. Would that be an example of an impossible expectation? That these humans, plants and animals will miraculously escape already insufferable heat by climbing into the ether? It appears to be wishful thinking. It appears the ramifications of climate change are too much for most people. These who roll in FLICC would rather shape the world to their own bowl-headed thinking rather than gather new evidence to reach reasonable and scientifically conceded conclusions. </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-67119612515143569632015-10-13T08:04:00.001+09:002015-10-13T08:06:04.400+09:00Progressive Media Coverage On Climate Change<br />
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The movie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU">Home by Yann Artus Betrand</a> (2009) reawakened a memory of hitchhiking through Algonquin Park in 1994 and being picked up by Professor Guy McPherson and a collection of other climate scientists on their way to a conference. His thesis is largely that <a href="http://guymcpherson.com/">Nature Bats Last</a> and that humanity is largely doomed to near-term extinction. His opinions on the topic haven't changed much for a quarter century in the intervening decades. However he seems more at peace with it and does have much more data to support his ideas. This led me to revisit the opinions of writers such as Gwynne Dyer upon investigating food security issues in Korea and prereading for an ASEAN research project that never took place. His books and continuing articles on climate change such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats/dp/1851688145">Climate Wars (2009)</a> coincide with McPherson's data gathering and reports all from peer reviewed journal articles and interviews with experts who support the <a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm">97% consensus</a> among climate scientists that climate change is certainly taking place. Through ongoing climate change denial, the societies most capable of making a transition to a post carbon energy world have refused to do so for decades. This may ensure a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/08/who-dies-and-who-survives-during-a-mass-extinction-a-tantalizing-clue/">mass extinction</a> level event in far too near-term future.</div>
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People without my global exposure to travel, education and reading appear to think I am spreading gloom and doom? Or that I should be resented for knowing what I know? Marg Atwood has it right when she describes Canadian culture as a place where you're not supposed to look like you're smarter than anybody else. We're discouraged by a status quo that appears to reward and encourage mediocrity rather than those who strive to improvement especially in education. Even others who may have much more of it such as <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken">Exxon executives</a> have refused to say little about what they have known for decades. Well, I don't agree and am tired of people with fewer qualifications or travel experiences harshly criticizing me for what science and its evidence are indicating are correct. I know that most people in my closest circles are not reading articles from this sphere of near-term climate impacts. Their advice or opinions on the topic are usually coming from a media skewed conservative ideological mindset (what other mainstream is there in a natural resource economy like Canada really). That advice is to find another topic to focus on and that this knowledge impacts upon me negatively and that my happiness is more important. This sounds fairly hedonistic to me. I enjoy teaching the topics of international trade and I am good at it. However much additional education taken on to support alternative research commercialization to address climate change impacts goes underutilized. </div>
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Well, none of these people are building habitats for wild animals to ensure some survive increasingly harsh winters and seem unaware of anything beyond climate change denial. My engagement with nature gives me the most satisfaction in what I realize is a great dying in the air, water, land and seas. Increasingly, I feel isolated due to my awareness. Most recently I have begun following the <a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/">post carbon institute,</a> <a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/">climate reality</a>, <a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/">The Naked Scientists,</a> <a href="http://climatetruth.org/">Climatetruth.org</a>, <a href="http://www.climate-change-guide.com/">Climate Change Guide</a>, <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/">Union of Concerned Scientists</a> and <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/">Skeptical Science</a> among others as well as denial101x. I don't think Canada is a healthy place to disagree with this fossil fuel financed status quo. This is a country that is burning fossils like its 1955. The cognitive dissonance and information bias in Canada not only undermines scientific consensus but discounts the quality of education found in countries like Australia or the academic work experiences found in regions such as Asia or the Middle East. As potential employers in Canada continue to reject my job applications their message is that my reasoning is faulty and my respect for academic freedom is too <i>ang mo</i>? Canada seems to have become a diversity that seeks to exclude logic and reason in my absence from this job market. Its fossil fuel resource sphere of influence is a magnified minority and may be all that defines the sociopolitical culture of Canada at the present time. This hasnt stopped me from reaching out to people and organizations who share my views. I wish there were more in Canada. </div>
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What have I been reading lately? <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/">Insideclimatenews.org</a> has a multi-part series on what Exxon knew about climate change since the 1970s. This is a Pulitzer Prize winning group of climate science reporters so I think their accuracy is investigative and thorough. <strong><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken">Exxon: The Road Not Taken</a></strong> that's what I've been reading lately. I wish I could be more positive and happier in the prospects of what the near-term future holds for the earth due to companies like this. I wish the impacts of what their industry has wrought would be decades and generations away from harming me and the people who claim to love me. The science is clear on so many choke-points in food, water and energy that 2025-2030 isn't far enough into the future for me to feel good about it. The question, "So what?" is insufficient and lacks understanding and I hear it too frequently from so called educated people who claim to love me. That is the ultimate dissonance. People who are uncomfortable with the implications of climate change cannot absorb this data or accept the scientific concensus. There's a mental block to it and most of the media largely perpetuates that. Its all marketing and the selling of optimistic lies. McPherson calls it <i>hopium</i>. <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken" style="color: #0078b0; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken</a></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-37766324417827007722015-10-11T08:32:00.003+09:002015-10-11T08:32:57.292+09:00Denial101x: The Psychology and Spread of Climate Change Denial<img height="301" src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrhf0j7OKd1qbazqao1_1280.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naomi Oreskes reiterates the themes of <a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/">Merchants of Doubt</a> (2010), "If I have one message that's what my message has been all along and it still is: this is not a scientific debate; it's a political debate. But it's a political debate being made to look like a scientific debate." The question is why hasn't that message permeated the political cultures of western societies deeply enough to provoke substantial fossil fuel emissions cutbacks? Increasingly, the science of climate change has been known for decades (even Exxon has known since 1977) yet inaction or inept commitments to future action appear to have delayed mitigation to perhaps too little and too late. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oreskes and many others demonstrate through evidence based research that the problems are not a lack of access to information. Rather the implications of climate impacts are unfavourable to the many businesses primarily responsible for these ever increasing emissions. Those most responsible reject greater regulations and government actions required to mitigate climate change. Researchers have found that the largest correlating factor to climate change denial is ideology or political affiliations which support free market economics or laissez faire, and less democratic government. Those most adamant in climate change denial appear all pillars of the right wing or conservative world view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contributors present the case that the conservative media, thought leadership and politicians are all a <i>magnified minority</i> arguing from the top of an ideology. They are all saying that climate change is not an issue and will find a minority of scientists among the remaining 3% who are more or less inclined to agree with them. The question then becomes, "Why is a small yet vocal and heavily status quo invested magnified minority denying the science of climate change? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greater democratic government oversight and carbon pollution controls will reduce the power and authority of the ideological right. These actors have sought to minimize the roles of democratic government in an economic system that appears not to know how to turn the fossil fuel taps off. The psychological and social ideological positioning has attempted to find a role for politicians in science where there is none and made a political debate out of the issues of climate change. This magnified minority has perpetuated inaction and demeaning, devaluing and discrediting the scientific evidence and global scientific consensus that climate change is real and CO2 emissions are heavily contributing to it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Cook reveals that the fossil fuel industry is borrowing tactics from the tobacco industry to curry doubt as the product with, "the best means of neutralizing scientific evidence." Three psychological methods of perpetuating and maintaining doubt regarding the 97% agreed scientific consensus include: a) casting doubt on evidence through misrepresenting, cherry-picking, falsifying or proposing conspiracy theories b)casting doubt upon researchers through personal or professional attacks through abusive emails, disruptive freedom of information requests or blogs and c) casting doubt upon scientific consensus. All of these interfere with the urgency for action to impede the general public from gaining awareness that there is scientific consensus on global climate change. Climate change denial reduces the freedom of scientists to conduct and communicate their results. The principles of academic freedom are therefore subjected to academic censorship and the underestimation of climate change impacts found in reports such as the IPCC are an attempt to reduce hostile public responses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems the public is tired of hearing about the less than optimistic climate change impacts on the horizon. The Merchants of Doubt have done their work extremely well and almost no preparations seem to be apparent that will adequately minimize climate change impacts as a result. These "Dragons of Inaction" are described as: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">insignificant actions such as token recycling and bulb changing (I'm alright Jack)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">For example, large media networks indicate climate change topics generate zero ratings so sneak the topic into other formats to attempt to inform public. Large fossil fuel companies like Exxon have had scientific evidence that supports the consensus world view yet actively campaigned to suppress and undermine the scientific consensus on global climate change since as early as 1977. The far too numerous climate change denial campaigns over the past few decades can repeatedly be traced to, "dark money." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breaking through: producers warm up to climate change stories (Oct., 2015) Read more: <a href="http://realscreen.com/2015/10/09/breaking-through-producers-warm-up-to-climate-change-stories/#ixzz3oCVCH4wz" style="color: #0078b0; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">http://realscreen.com/2015/10/09/breaking-through-producers-warm-up-to-climate-change-stories/#ixzz3oCVCH4wz</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exxon Doubled Down on Climate Denial and Deceit (Sep., 2015)<a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/exxon-doubled-down-on-climate-denial-and-deceit/19541-exxon-doubled-down-on-climate-denial-and-deceit" style="color: #0078b0; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/exxon-doubled-down-on-climate-denial-and-deceit/19541-exxon-doubled-down-on-climate-denial-and-deceit</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dark Money Funds Climate Change Denial Effort (December, 2013)<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/" style="color: #0078b0; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/</a></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-43607652958903447582015-10-06T10:37:00.000+09:002015-10-06T10:42:16.033+09:00Consilience versus Cosilence <b>Denial101X: Concensus of Scientists</b><br />
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The expression <i>consilience of evidence </i>is described as a rather quizzical terminology officially used to define scientific concensus. It's interesting that my automatic spelling feature chooses to spell the word as <i>co silence</i>. It could be useful to compare these two words. Consilience versus cosilence.<br />
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The Latin origin prefix <i>con</i> is a variant of com preceding all consonants (another con) excluding b,h, l, p, r all found added to the fronts of nouns at dictionary.com Examples are such as convene, condone and connection with con originating from com as in .com<br />
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Consilience of converging and widely sourced conclusions which agree with each other depend upon reliable evidence within and across disciplines. The credit goes to a polymath British scientist named <i>William Whewell </i>to gather and collate streams of data from collocations but somewhat dissimilar categories of science to form a nomenclature based not upon necessary truths but upon evidence. For example, he constructed a form of measurable scale across many early evolving categories of science.<br />
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Instead of saying the scale was fixed and never changing, his approach to evidence gathering would measure the notes of apparent points of evidence and mark them rather than a result to a precomposed conclusion. Similarly as his interests jumped together across many disciplines his wordsmithery skills included creating new words to explain the convergences or consiliencies between experiments, their results and across disciplines. His credits include the word <i>scientist</i>.<br />
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However the origins and meaning of science and how it requires consiliencies has been lost to many disciplines such as economic geologists and meteorologists which appears surprising. If large portions of these disciplines discredit a concensus of global warming might they not be demonstrating examples of cosilence? Have magnified minorities of these disciplines lost an understanding of consilience? Or were their disagreements based upon power versus rational based decisions? Is there a consilient cosilence between many of these researchers as their primary employers are fossil fuel and other mineral extraction companies along with the mainstream media?<br />
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Measurements in consiliencies might be collected across various methods with low error probability and the greater the number of unrelated measurements reduces the probable number of errors. As E.O.Wilson resurrected the word consilience to explain a fragmentation of the historic polymath's general approach to a unity of knowledge, he rescued it from the depths of a power based cosilence found deep in the earth and high in the sky of a collective human science.<br />
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There is a similar fragmentation taking place in the world's biological ecosystems and the interconnectedness essential to support life and required of increased awareness not only of consilience. This might be defined as an increasing incidence of cosilence? Disciplines originally formed to construct an orderly category of knowledge research have increasingly lost an awareness of convergence or the benefits of consilience. It seems economic geologists and meteorologists might be the most likely not to observe or report on the impacts of weather and resource extraction on rapid destruction of human and wildlife habitats which are convergent with increasing fossil fuel emissions.<br />
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This appears to be my first blog post in more than two years? What explains the delay? Well, I and my thoughts have been elsewhere such as posting to Linkedin and building new contacts there. The intervening years saw a massive reduction in my reading library. The cull amounted to about 80% of my accumulated texts. While Bluefirereader offers some portability, I still seek time for reading texts. Generation Y may not agree, and often appear to have little time for reading books. Does that explain the rise in popularity of inarticulate <i>Minions</i>?</div>
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Well, some one has to read books, otherwise a majority of news might be fed through sites like Facebook. Then where would reliable source online media sharing be - awash in a sea of bullshit with fewer and fewer operating shit detectors? Oops, maybe that is the case. This explains my affinity for provocative news on the topics of climate change, alternative energy technologies, new materials research and habitat enrichment. This last topic has been the focus of many physical efforts in the last few months since July. </div>
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My current project between writing, teaching or any other form of contracts has been forest <i>hugelkultur</i>. What are <i>hugelbeets</i>? Mound and pit constructions using windblown and rotting wood piles, tree trunks, soil and horse manure. The strongest influencers on this task itself have been readings on the topic courtesy of Robert Hart, Sepp Holtzer, the FAO or Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN - all inspire as 2015 is their Year of Soils. Alan Savory says a farmer's first chore is to build soil. </div>
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So a summer soil building exercise has been enriched. Yet the heat has been an odd, climate change addled set of weather systems on The Bay of Fundy since July. The ocean is obviously delivering elevated heat to the region and <a href="http://earth.nullschool.net/">earth nullschool</a> confirms far above average coastal temperatures. The result has been that a pattern of typically cooler, less humid bayside temperatures compared to the Annapolis Valley were often reversed. Would this explain the seeming increase in fallen large hemlock on my woodlot? </div>
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As October is cooling, I am finally starting on <a href="https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UQx+Denial101x+2T2015/info">The University of Queensland's Global Change Institute's edX Denial 101x: Making Sense of Climate Science Denial</a> led by John Cook. If you are as I am, seeking opportunities to impact your own consciousness <i>to make peace with what appears to be near term human extinction</i>, then this is probably the course you should be taking too. I think it may be more positively adaptive to try to do that than to deny the distinct possibility. </div>
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My next series of blog posts will be my reflections on these topics. I'm not sure many Canadians are really doing that yet?</div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-62388942649621562122013-05-17T08:36:00.001+09:002013-05-17T08:36:15.281+09:00CANADIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: SEEKING SAVINGS RATHER THAN EARNINGS<br />
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EARNINGS</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thi</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">s issue of <a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1129663-ndp-ns-universities-hope-to-avoid-100-million-funding-shortfall?utm_source=website&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=most_read">seeking savings rather than seekingearnings</a></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
incremental offshore franchise programs is perhaps the clearest indicator that
the academic community in Canada has contributed to its own crisis in higher
education than any other external factor. The levels of academic freedom in
Canada are shockingly low and the account-abilities of administrative management
teams are much to blame for their own fiscal crises. Four points to make on
this compass. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> The quality of higher education in Canada's
traditional offshore student markets is improving and rising faster than
Canada's domestic educational infrastructure.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> This is particularly evident in research
spending and commercialization otherwise known as accountable and transparent
measures to increase the return on taxpayer funded research. The combined
production of new patents and intellectual property for new new inventions
which earn a profit and contribute to the health and well being of a society
and its quality of life are no longer the focus. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As a result, i</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">nternational students
may soon be less likely to make up for local domestic shortfalls in higher
education enrolment. Doubling international students is a national goal without
sufficient</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
international</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> marketing. The strategy was rubber-stamped by a
handful of institutions, designed by an American and often marketed by IDP</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> an</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> A</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ustralian
corporation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Journalists are not reporting on this enough</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Canadian
national, provincial and institutional research</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ers</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> are not examining their own supply-side dynamics </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">reflexively enough in</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> terms of graduate performance </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">to </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">adapt
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">quickly enough </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">to new employment market shifts.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> For
example, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/01/29/bc-skills-shortage.html">British Columbia</a> can no longer rely on ready supply of domestic
skilled graduates to transfer to the province as in the past</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> century</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">.
Shortfalls are seen as early as 2016</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> in that province</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">which among others in the West have readily absorbed
over production on new graduates in the East. New</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> immigrants are
projected to not only spend more on a Canadian education than Canadians do</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> to win those positions
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">but can be expected to earn less than domestic
Canadian workers who</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> would</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> earn more with less education. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Journalists are not
reporting on this enough. Administrations are culpable for this.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Scotia and The Maritimes</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">. The first is a potential drop in international enrollments Canada's international competitors in higher education have been
building their offshore income and profit earning programs for forty years to
offset funding shortfalls at home. Canada is perhaps also pursuing a <a href="http://overseasoverwhelmed.com/canadas-intl-edu-strategy-low-lying-fruit/">lowhanging fruit strategy</a> in attracting immigrant researchers. This incremental
increase is reminiscent of the influx of foreign academics to teach the baby
boom generation which was the last time the Canadian higher education industry
saw any incremental increases in employment opportunities in higher education.
Attracting the bottom of the barrel is a Canadian trend. It will never give
Canada a leg up on its competitors, namely The UK, The USA and Australia The
second cliff is domestic enrolment declines. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4.The economic
depression of the 1930's is often attributed to the undervaluation of supply
chain and inventory influenced production statistics. </span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In Canada, the
</span><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/101987.article" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">oversupply of education graduates </a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is a classic example of this failure of
Canadian schools to keep track of the successes of their own students.
Insufficient provincial and national tracking of disciplinary oversupply and
under supply of trained professionals over decades of complacency have put
Canadian institutions in the position that they are in today. Stats Canada
predicted several local domestic enrollment shortfalls correctly in reports
dating from 2007. No one in The Maritime Region and Newfoundland seems to even
be talking about those scenarios publicly. The news is dire: as early as 2022
may see upwards of a 25% decline in enrollments across the region. Will doubling
of international students by that time even be enough to plug the massive hole
in this educational dyke? </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Socialist politics may play a large part. But the
globalization of Canada's economy has as swiftly degraded its ability to fund
higher education through government supported programs as many other OECD
nations in the past. Financial responsibilities in other regions such as
Australia provoked successful incremental increases in profit earning offshore
student programs much to the benefit of Australian society. Canada's third rate
academia have bucked this trend for far too long and now that the cupboard is
bare may they soon recognize they are lately to blame for the crisis and cost
cutting to come. Better to seek new earning opportunities than cost cutting. In
Nova Scotia, they have been saying no for so long they have forgotten how to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>P.S. </b>The original link to this article at The Chronicle Herald is now closed after fifteen hours and thirty responses. It is the second time I have called the newspaper to suggest that an entire facet of this ongoing issue is going unreported. Namely, informed and educated international opinion and trend is absent from discussion. I would be happy to make an argumentative contribution to Canadian society on this topic. I look forward to the opportunity to do so. If critical analysis is impossible the organizational slack of Canadian academia is therefore evident and apparent. It is a battle of egos rather than common sense, so typical. </span></div>
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After fourteen months of Canada based job search, <u>these are the best words of advice I've had so far</u>. I am tired of receiving rejections for my hundreds upon hundreds of applications across the country and the disdain and dismissal of recruiters and hiring managers with perhaps discriminatory hiring practices here. I am, " independent enough to go ahead and work on something, even when someone else is saying don't bother, its not worth doing, forget it, do something else." I wish there were more Canadians like me? </div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-6997543971667335942013-05-10T12:37:00.001+09:002013-05-10T12:37:33.985+09:00Multiculturalism Unveiled: Is Canada Really Multicultural?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/51260894" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/51260894">Multiculturalism Unveiled(is Canada really multicultural?)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user13880406">Differentivity</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-24085644824967573042013-03-29T23:45:00.000+09:002013-03-29T23:48:28.197+09:00My Beef with Grant ThorntonMy Beef with Grant Thornton<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To whom it may concern:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Considering the last time I applied with your organization, I didn't even receive a closing of competition response from you folks. Your performance exudes worst practices.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then I receive an automated computer message highlighting the same job that I applied for months ago and again there's no human resource contact person to address my cover letter to? I flip my French calfskin glove in your general direction. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What in your organizational hiring policy and practice defines innovation? In my mind, it's not computer programs, it's about attracting talent. Since I consider myself talent you've done an excellent job of presenting your company as a nameless, faceless, listless, witless, and lacking in accountability organization. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm sure you'll agree, until someone picks up the phone, and dials a few precious numbers, your service is incomplete. And you can be sure it's not going to be me picking up the phone, as I have no human contact to assure a living being has even reviewed my cv, let alone deemed it insufficient of further interest. You'll also agree I would be a fool to apply to a company like that again that has treated my previous application with so little regard, respect or levity for trying to navigate the maze of your hiring process. Leave it up to the drones. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Put that in your innovation pipe and smoke it. My impression of your company is, so far, not high on my list of potential employers, if only because there's a complete lack of accountability at recruitment level. But you have such great automated computer programs to make up for it? I don't think so, not even close.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Good luck in hiring or acquiring committed talent with such minimal effort endeavours in your HR department.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sincerely,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daniel J. Costello</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-89211613960959107182013-03-27T12:55:00.003+09:002013-03-28T03:21:19.854+09:00SOGGY BOTTOM DFAIT & RUCBC LABOUR MARKET OUTLOOK DISCUSSION<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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BOTTOM DFAIT & RUCBC LABOUR MARKET OUTLOOK DISCUSSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">First of all, Roslyn
Kunin has reported upon the impending labour crisis in British Columbia set to
begin as early as <a href="http://beaconnews.ca/burnaby/2013/03/bc-labour-shortage-by-2016-may-not-mean-increased-opportunity/">2016</a>. The basis of this article is sourced from the recent
research output of <a href="http://www.rucbc.ca/">RUCBC</a> or their BC Labour Market Outlook </span><a href="http://www.rucbc.ca/pdfs/2013-01-28_850_AM_LMP_Deck.pdf"><span style="line-height: 107%;">2010-2020</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">
and considering that there are only two reports on their website it must be
evidence that RUCBC collaboration in this capacity is fairly quickly assembled
in response to crisis management. It is
obvious that B.C. is further ahead in their awareness of the issue than most of
the rest of Canada for example, where the entire Atlantic Provinces are seen to
lose 30% of their enrolled students and population by as early as <a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-595-m/81-595-m2007058-eng.pdf">2022</a>. I am not
hearing “boo” from any media or research source here, as if the baby boomers
who are aware of it are silently taking the knowledge with them to their
secured retirements, and leaving the rest of us in what could only be described
as a regional economic and socio-cultural nightmare. Here where all responsible
for policies are managed by elitists and sycophants thus irascible,
intransigent, and nepotistic (and I am being generous) could throw their hands up
in the air in hindsight and say, “we knew nothing, we were unaware, if only we
had known sooner, we could have done something to stop such declines.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Page ten provides grim
evidence of the educated outmigration shifts of many regions and provinces of
Canada in the RUCBC Labour Market Report, including The Maritimes up until 2006. It would be useful if the RUCBC
were extending their labour market projections beyond their own mandate to encompass
the rest of the country up to 2020, as few if any other regional research
associations seem to be up to snuff. Asit appears they have been doing so little other than
massive </span></span><i style="line-height: 107%;">Motherhouse-like </i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">construction projects on old, outdated, non-existent
or even completely missing or perhaps falsified/misrepresented data perhaps aside from
Statistics Canada. This reaffirms a conviction that most provinces of Canada
have worked in statistical blindness and logic vacuums upon scant </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px;">inter-provincial</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> cooperation or even comparative note taking among their administrative cadres. Until
these kinds of figures appear, which are ominous to suddenly weigh heavily on the provinces, they have rampantly oversupplied skilled workers in the East while others over-employ those workers in
the West without having spent any money to educate them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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MARITIMES: HORSE HAS ALREADY LEFT THE BARN?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Considering that B.C.
has historically and is currently seeing approximately 30% of its employment
needs coming from those educated and employed outside of the province whether
international or national employment candidates, their research of this trend
should similarly extend a comparative percentage beyond their provincial scope.
As is clear from page eleven in the RUCBC Labour Report, the international migration rates have somewhat
declined up to 2012 while inter-provincial migrants have slipped into negative
territory for the first time in recorded history. A great example of national
mismanagement is the oversupply of education majors; what a nefarious pursuit
of academics to ensure and enshrine their own resources at the cost of
misinforming their own students as to the five to ten times oversupply of the
educational market. These academic administrations have for the most part ignored the trends in international education for decades possibly mostly due to the fact that Canadians for
generations in academia have refused to develop the international wing of their
mandate for more than forty years. This is why Canada is losing ground in
educational quality to countries like Australia with double the results in
academic quality rankings and significantly smaller population. This is why its national earnings are so paltry abroad; Canada has severely neglected its commitment to quality education and quality jobs for more than a generation and the results are staggering. The egos of this nation so outweigh its potency in international education, its tragic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">While British Columbia,
Saskatchewan and Alberta have consistently under-educated their own populations
to undergraduate and PGR levels as several others have oversupplied suitable
candidates nationally it is apparent this will no longer be possible for the
foreseeable future. So can B.C. institutions quickly and easily ramp up their
efforts to produce more provincially educated employment candidates across all
disciplines and skills levels in the next five years to keep up with labour
market demands? It would be useful for RUCBC to examine comparative
international migration competitors to source strategies for that purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BASIS OF A SOGGY BOTTOM AU/IN INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">The idea that the
solution is asking more international students to pay more than domestic ones for
their education here and then expect them to take employment outside of the discipline for which they have trained and
at salaries less than their less educated domestic Canadian competitors is at
the root of Canada’s soggy bottom international education strategy. What else
than institutional prejudice and two tiered highly discriminatory hiring
policies can that be described as? Whatever it is, it is odious and requires
significant cleanse in the terms of competitive marketing strategy as it will not
hold water abroad and strikes the underbelly of Canada’s cultural ethnocentrism in its
worst expression of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">An example of Canada’s
lily-livered approach to its own international education strategy, which belies
the insignificance it affords to its competitors as easily demonstrated by </span><a href="http://overseasoverwhelmed.com/canada-cant-quench-thirst-for-intl-students-dfait-imagine-canada-magical-mystery-africa-tour-2013/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Mel
Broitman</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">, describing the absence of water at marketing
functions held by DFAIT in Nigeria; recalls the absence and parched, late
appearance of water at Canada Day Festivities at The Governor Generals’ Rideau
Hall Residence in Ottawa in the early 1990s. The best they could come up with
in terms of catering were (hours late) stale sandwiches and a shortage of cups
for ten thousand revellers in record heat. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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example of DFAIT inability to fathom the marketing approaches of even its
primary competitor for undergraduates there, Austrade. Korea is one of Canada’s
largest international education markets and has been so for nearly twenty years
mostly on the sweaty wetbacks of Canadian itinerant teachers. With over 22,000
Canadians in the country the only efforts at cross-institutional networking is
through the Canadian Chamber of Commerce where gala events are three times the
cost of Korea Australia Alumni Association activities which are more numerous.
Canada should already have have a fully implemented cross-institutional alumni
association there in Korea serving its own expats let alone the thousands of
Korean Canadian Alumni but doesn’t. Such an enterprise is long overdue and
needs to be financed and managed by DFAIT but it does not mirroring the
regional and at odds provincial approach to educational networking back home.
Personally, such an approach appears quite witless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Recommendations in the </span><a href="http://www.rucbc.ca/pdfs/2012-10-18-opportunity-agenda.pdf"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Opportunity
Agenda</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> appear to be in line with Conference Board of
Canada recommendations made nearly a decade ago for the entire nation. However
how many other university associations are publishing similar agendas, how many
other provincial and federal education initiative are being taken to ensure
these roles and requirements are reached? If as it appears, Canada’s
international migration competitors are able to offer better incentives to
employment and immigration than </span><a href="http://beaconnews.ca/blog/2013/03/bc-labour-shortage-by-2016-may-not-mean-increased-opportunity/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">this
article suggests</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">, “immigrants are more likely to have
higher education than other Canadians, but are less likely to find jobs in
their fields and to make an equivalent income” such in built (in bred?) policy
based prejudice approach to immigrant employment across provincial, federal,
institutional and corporate employment
practices will probably not meet minimum demand requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is one poor
argument, a false one, that immigrants will be willing to sacrifice their
careers for a Canadian citizenship and position. It is false, because the
ability to work in one’s own specialized field and be paid better than
nationals with fewer skills and credentials (and as merit demands it should
be), will be the competitive advantage and primary success factor in
international migration policies across the entire OECD. B.C.’s problem is a
global one and B.C.’s competitors are just as aware as I am that Canada’s
Achilles heel is its lack of respect for international experience and superior
qualifications. It is policy and it’s a cheap and usurious one. When Canada’s
policy makers begin to provide evidence of merit based hiring practices rather
than prejudicial ones, namely giving international work experience and superior
education it’s just due, as Canada should as well, this crisis will diminish
correlative to hiring and training the best people for the jobs regardless of
where they come from if they can provide evidence of superior skills. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I have already applied for this position through linkedin and connected with Leo Lin.</div>
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I would not have applied had I known that. What a horrid policy for an aspiring global company.</div>
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of your company? I would not recommend your position to ANY business English teaching </div>
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On 2013-03-06, at 6:08 AM, Serina Liu <<a href="http://ca.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=serina.liu@bleum.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: purple; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:serina.liu@bleum.com">serina.liu@bleum.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Dear </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Daniel Joseph Costello</span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">This is Serina from Bleum Recruiting team. Now we need a full time British English Trainer for my company. <span style="color: red; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">We prefer British Accent.</span> The job description is as <span style="color: #1f497d; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">below</span>. Pls feel free to let me know if <span style="color: red; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">your British friends</span>are interested in. Look forward to your reply. Let’s keep in touch by email or celll phone. Have a nice day!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Corporate English Language Trainer (In-house) Full Time</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/companies/67263?dspporc=&trk=jobtocomp&goback=%2Efjs_bleum_*1_*1_I_cn_*1_*1_1_R_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2" rel="nofollow" style="color: purple; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Bleum </span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Downtown Shanghai (Shanghai City, China)</span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">GENERAL SUMMARY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"></span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"> Will be responsible to improve employees’ English capability by delivering English and communication related training, conducting English assessment, providing customized L&D solutions</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Design, develop and deliver in-house English language, cultural awareness, and business communication courses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Work with ODC (offshore development center) to understand their specific needs, and come up with and implement customized L&D solutions for their English improvement</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Deliver 15-20 hours a week.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Provide coaching to staff to guide their English improvement.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Conduct English language assessments.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Provide guidance to support other team organizing English Salon</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Identify useful words and phrases to be posted on the Intranet on a regular basis</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Act as role model to promote Bleum culture—English only, security, professional dress code.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Experience of teaching business English to adults</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">3 years or above English training experience to intermediate/advanced learners</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Founded in 2001, Bleum is now one of China's leading IT services providers to American and European companies in a variety of sectors including high-tech, financial services, telecommunications, and retail. We specialize in creating global development centers, providing services such as application development, product development, support and maintenance, testing, and legacy system modernization. Our relentless focus on quality has earned us prestigious ISO27001 and CMMI Level 5 certifications and a leadership position as one of China's premier outsourcing partners. Bleum, American owned and managed, understands the language, business culture, and expectations of western-based IT organizations. We focus solely on clients in the U.S. and Europe, so our entire organization is completely aligned with executing a global delivery model. We maintain an "English Only" policy throughout our organization along with highly trained English teachers who are constantly enhancing our ongoing English curriculum. Most importantly, we adhere to Western business ethics and standards. As a result of these factors, project communications with our European and American clients are straight-forward, concise, and far superior to most outsourcing partners. Moreover, Bleum employs some of the smartest and most capable people in the industry.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Best Regards</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"></span></div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-88443674396030465242013-03-07T03:02:00.002+09:002013-03-07T03:02:59.833+09:00Review of Seriousteachers.com<br />
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I did put my details on that website and I have to say they are some of the lowest, that dog won't bark jobs I've ever seen. My minimum to work in China? Full expatriate package, 30,000 RMB a month, minimum. </div>
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Please tell somebody I don't teach kinder or cram school, or live in dorm studios, siphon water out of a communal well, listen to the wind whistle through cracks in the walls or warm myself over a charcoal briquette in the middle of the floor. And my mattress is not a deboned and brined wild boar.</div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-441948201640867992013-03-06T06:37:00.001+09:002013-03-07T00:35:21.453+09:00Discussion of the Brand: Imagine au/in Canada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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embraced international education almost at the time that the Americans enforced
IMF requirements that they abandon their colonies and transfer their wealth to
the US financial system after World War Two. There may be more than a few
educational institutional leaders in Canada that are not just
inflating administrative costs but ensuring their pension packages
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growth estimates and international enrollment issues highlighted in their
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reports and a consultation process with fewer than one hundred and fifty
stakeholders; one report of which I've already discussed, the other known to
reveal that for decades few provinces have kept any solid research data on
their international students. Maybe Canadian inter-provincial barriers to
trade and labour mobility have kept our sense of national culture in the
internationalization of the Cold War? These provinces haven't cared enough
about their international students to keep records or research data on them for
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student growth plans espoused by national level councils and government among
academics at Acadia sure; I was at the recent Forum for Building a New Economy
in Nova Scotia a couple of weeks ago. Their attitudes were crystal, " no
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math on what 30% population declines in Atlantic Canada are going to look like
in as little as ten years. Maybe that's where they're getting their projected
5% domestic enrollment increases across the nation annually but most
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waiving enrollment fees. That looks like poaching to me and the
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outdated philosophy of the purposes of higher education especially in their
resistance to collaboratively building offshore campuses in Asia and MENA as a
national lack of trend. There are a few maverick schools already abroad and I
commend them. But their competitors in Oz are already at 40% of their schools
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earned knowledge from abroad in numerous PhD programs of study and
teaching inquiries in my discipline across the country over the past
year of applications here. Nine times out of ten not even a response in decline
let alone an acknowledgement of receipt of application. I even see it in the
left leaning, "Canada Imagine Education au/in Canada logo." That's a
great example of an academic enterprise that seeks to meet its own needs for
compromise and market to itself rather than to its future international
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Who would steal <i>au/in</i>? <b>Note: </b>It is presented here
to display how mediocre it really is not in an effort to align with it. Need I say how symbolic it is that the Maple Leaf doesn't even have eleven points on it? Gives a sense that this national strategy was written with crayola crayons. </span></div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-71107010737415843042013-03-05T22:47:00.000+09:002013-03-05T22:55:22.584+09:00Plucky Little Pony: NS Tourism Take a Hint! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: start;">That was a period of exponential growth with reinforcement of three tiers of society. The world has not seen that type of growth until the rise of economic reforms during Bill Clinton’s era which ended in 2008. <u>At the top of the pyramid, the aristocrats of heraldic England</u>: Nova Scotia had/has its share as did/does Canada. People who never had to climb and have nowhere to go but down. These employed the designs of the world’s leading urban planners to "gentrify" (read "spin") the architectural landscape of a boom town. Canada is not anything like a boom-town now. The rafts of century homes lining nearly every urban centre of Canada’s economic boom during that time are evidence of its colonial role: taking only the best timber from its vast forests and leaving the scrub behind to reseed with an inferior growth. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: start;"><u>The second class</u>: merchants and business owners who grew their entrepreneurial empires through the scratch and scrape of international trade. While their economic power quickly outstripped many of the wealthiest of the blue bloods, their societal and political power remained of low repute. Independent international traders were viewed with a jaundiced eye; it’s clear that eye remains in Canadian society otherwise, our economy would be overflowing with programs to induce new trading relationships abroad other than with a mostly over reliant large corporate alliance across the US border. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: start;"><u>The third class being the working poor</u>: a class of labourers with few opportunities for advancement other than to collectivize their resources (at the threat of revolution a set of compromises businesses and powers were happy to make) and work to improve minimum standards in terms of quality of work and life. Their fortunes heavily relied on an increase in the latter at the cost of the power of the former. That in a nutshell, is the ramification of increasing small and medium business international trade beyond the traditional US-Canada sales to the lowest bidder. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: start;">It is also the ramification of expanding Canada's educational income through greater international student draws. In terms of Canada's international education exchange effort, <u>its third class</u>. In terms of Canada's ability to absorb new knowledge and innovation from abroad, <u>its third class</u>. It is exactly the way the established systems in Canada seek it to be. <u>It is under-grown, under-valued and under-marketed because to do so would upset the current balances of power</u>. Canadian academics seem to employ the tactic of the dangers of a two tier system in education but what they really support by doing so are the three tiers of British Society Circa 1880-1920. That remains Canada's cultural quaintness and its failure to internationalize on a scale that would support its own quality of life. </span></div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-59502345022872562862013-02-27T09:36:00.000+09:002013-02-27T14:52:22.662+09:00Trade Complacency in Nova Scotia, at NSCC and Canada? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have no real figure to estimate what percentage of, for example, Nova Scotian graduates must leave the province to look for work. But I imagine it to be close to half or more. That leaves from 40% to 60% of people who have NEVER had to leave their hometowns or regions to look for work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These are the people with the best local network to continuous advancement as they have never been required to be more mobile out of necessity. I would also imagine, they are among the least trained for their positions on the whole. It would also be a reasonable expectation that since they've never left their hometowns or regions, they have the lowest quotient of international experiences and the highest perception of risk associated with hiring people from other regions or provinces let alone those trained and experienced in foreign countries.</span></div>
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<i>Canadians are often self-described as risk averse; I would hazard to say this is correct. The only international trade teaching they appear to allow are from those retired or laid off, fired or quit from Canadian corporations. A long line of ex-bankers and ex-accountants who might never have set foot in a foreign land to work or do business. There are definitely many more career paths and perspectives on international trade and management that are equally valid or of equal or greater value to the learning of rural Nova Scotians or Canadians. It is a myth that older is wiser. It is a myth that gut instincts in business experience can substitute theoretical and proven knowledge in business based on a humanist foundation. </i></div>
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<i>The first is for logic based thinkers. Common sense dictates (in Canada where common sense is not that common) that allowing 10% of Canada's working population abroad to remain largely un-networked by its embassies, either through lack of federal and policy initiatives or foreign nation all institutional alumni associations, gala events, dinners, and marketing opportunities (other than a few stale sandwiches) would be an extremely cheap way to engage Canadian expatriates in Canada's international trade strategy.</i></div>
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<i>The second, career bureaucrats abound in Canada's national innovation system. "We've never done it like that before," is costing Canadians jobs, jobs, and more jobs (to quote Deming). The "experts" in international trade in Canada who are getting paid good salaries to come up with ideas can gather 90% of the information they need to make decisions on foreign markets sitting in cozy offices in Canada. But it is the extra 10% of knowledge coincident to the Canadian expatriate population abroad which holds the keys to unlocking Canadian innovation potential in my opinion. These bureaucrats sit on good ideas rather than implement them. Instead of creating a culture of creativity, Canadian businesses, governments and perhaps society itself have created a great example of the hazards of <b>organizational slack</b>. It appears to be extremely important to present the image that elephant-sized Canadian businesses, governments and agencies look like they care about growing the bottom line. But in reality, <b>the spin</b> takes precedence over substance. </i><br />
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<i>Otherwise, logically the economy would already be trade barrier free between provinces, and Canada would not be the laggard in signing free trade agreements around the world, the human resource functions would be the best in the world, the provinces would trade with foreign nations at a higher rate than they do with each other, universities would be employing three times their numbers, and graduating ten times their number of researchers, the list goes on. Rationally, Canada is the laggard trading nation that it is because the powers that be in industry, government and academia want it that way. Look no further than the northern roads of Ontario or Quebec to see the company town mentality that rules Canadian international trade strategies.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nova Scotian hiring patterns display to me a perfect Canadian example of the monocultural mindset or HRM policies which align closely with leadership which supports the status quo or, “hiring in one’s own image.” Statistics show Nova Scotia has more trade with other Canadian provinces than it does with the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many educators and academics share two standard views in Nova Scotia and Canada perhaps in general: 1) Just say no to any exponential sector growth as the status quo does not demand it (logical as the largest percentage of growth is among pensioners who no longer need to work) or 2) In response to declining and trailing GDP projections over the next ten years which according to StatsCan in 2007 will amount to a possible 30% decline in population for the entire Atlantic provinces region by 2022 “,there are other ways to measure quality of life than GDP.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Actually, I hope there ARE other ways to measure quality of life in regions of Canada facing enormous projected declines in GDP over the next decade as the status quo is saying “no” to seemingly any changes to strategic policy planning which would effect exponential growth in innovation which cannot be de-linked from contingent increases in GDP.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I cannot begin to address the lost billions Canadian educational institutions have missed out on, as well as the significant impact on the quality of life of its citizens due to this kind complacency particularly over the last forty years of Australia’s success in staving off its own educational budget cuts. At the same time, Canada’s educational establishment imported thousands of foreign academics perceived by some as “bottom of the barrel” in their own countries to assist in teaching the boomers during the heyday of Canadian institutional exponential growth from the mid-sixties to the early eighties.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Regarding carrying capacity I do agree with AUCC that Canada has no problem in carrying more international students. However, what they are doing about international student growth looks more and more like nations-based quota systems.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The next decline may be seen in the ability to attract foreign students here, not because of other international competitors alone who are also facing stagnant population growth without them. The rise in quality of educational institutions in source nations will perhaps outstrip Canada’s ability to maintain many domestic institutions without new domestic students or international immigrants.</span></div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-69828674490283264032013-02-07T22:27:00.002+09:002013-02-07T22:27:28.610+09:00Costello Response: Why Study Abroad? <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="miniprofile-container /miniprofile?view=&vieweeID=3758566&context=nus&goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></span></span>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-29981463883492343982013-01-30T07:44:00.002+09:002013-01-30T07:44:40.715+09:00In Their Own Image = Going Going GoneIn Their Own Image = Going Going Gone<br />
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http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-595-m/81-595-m2007058-eng.pdf<br />
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"However, there are already indications of a negative trend. Commencements, as measured by Australian Education International (AEI), showed a 6.3% decline for the year to June 2010, with ELICOS commencements being hardest hit, down 20.5%. Further reports from agents and providers suggest enrolments could fall by 30 to 40%. This is worrying for the higher education sector as ELICOS is a common pathway into higher education in subsequent years."<br />
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http://www.atn.edu.au/newsroom/Docs/2010/August_2010_Economic_implications_of_fewer_international_higher_education_students_in_Australia.pdf<br />
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-66389293109103385982013-01-28T11:17:00.000+09:002013-01-28T11:17:04.164+09:00I've Been Everywhere<br />
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-80281225575240587962013-01-28T07:24:00.002+09:002013-01-28T07:48:00.644+09:00A Defence of Australian Education: To DFAIT and Ghur<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Looking for an
international business research and teaching position where my training and
experience will make a positive impact on the organization policy needs and its
students. Your advertised opportunity was found by tracing your authorship of <i><a href="http://www.international.gc.ca/education/assets/pdfs/best_practices-pratiques_exemplaires_eng.pdf">Best
Practices on Managing the Delivery of Canadian Education Marketing<span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Looking for an
international business research and teaching position where my training and
experience will make a positive impact on the organization policy needs and its
students. Your advertised opportunity was found by tracing your authorship of <i><a href="http://www.international.gc.ca/education/assets/pdfs/best_practices-pratiques_exemplaires_eng.pdf">Best
Practices on Managing the Delivery of Canadian Education Marketing<span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brief review of your analysis regarding the</span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <i>Hollowed Out Quality of Australian Education
as perceived by your report and presented to the Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade Canada and by extension the academic community in this nation which
consistently rejects the notion that there is anything to be learned or applied
in digging a little deeper in the dry.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Of mixed pedigree, a
Canadian applicant for your policy analyst position advertises the swag of a hollowed
out Australian graduate education. Even a rooster puffs itself up as big as it
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Yes, funding cuts made
more than forty years ago propelled the establishment of IDP and a federal
international marketing alignment was born out of necessity; the Canadian
government published their first policy paper on that topic just last year, or forty
years late. These are the same determining factors at present in Canada’s
educational internationalization scheme, consistent cutbacks and declining HDR
enrollments are familiar driving factors. Unless addressed, Canada may see a similar
threat in decline of GDP due to rising rates of research investment and
intensity in IP and new patents from other proportionally higher invested
research competitor OECD nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">How Australia’s clear
blueprint to follow could be seen as a negative approach to financing and a
small tax base in population or as a poor solution for Australia, but a good
one for Canada is uncharitable. While realizing your report was published in
2009, Australia’s institutional research aims and accomplishments, despite
consistent cutbacks, are noteworthy for their growth in research
commercialization planning and clearer accountability measures even in the past
five years; similar transparency issues in taxpayer financed research in Canada
has yet to be addressed. The hollowed out quality foundation of which you write
is now measured and monitored by The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards
Agency (TEQSA) and while acrimonious in application and contentions, it is an
independent body as opposed to Canada’s own AUCC quality assessment of itself which
could be perceived as an effort to avoid the conflict of interest which that
reveals. Only one of Canada’s provinces is monitoring its higher education on
behalf of international students surely based on nefarious recruitment
campaigns which only harm Canada’s international educational brand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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difficulties of Australia’s institutions are apparent in the past four years,
amounting to the growth declines you presented however several racially
motivated attacks on foreign students carry some of the </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">blow-back</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> a rapid 71%
decline in Indian students enrollment following the murder of one of their
classmates in Sydney was an opportunity for Canada to pick up a concurrent
increase in Indian enrollments itself with a well-timed marketing campaign
which never took place. It is also
difficult to assume that declines in enrollments are based upon quality issues
when it is seen that the UK is facing similar declines due to tightened visa
requirements and the US is enjoying increased enrollments based upon price
cutting measures such as delivering university programming through high school extension
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footholds in Asia are based upon forty years of relationship building; the
success of these markets provide tangible and positive social capital impacts
upon the growth in business and IT research and evidence of the quality of
education delivered. Progressive steps to offshore branch campus developments
in several of those nations somewhat anticipates future declines in international
enrollments in Australia. The growth in local competitors abroad which
Australia largely helped to train and teach will squeeze resources at home in
the estimated 30% declines in domestic student enrollments predicted not only
for Australia but Canada as well over the next decade; a commitment to doubling
of international students in Canada by 2022 according to a recent DFAIT report
on commercialization will hardly meet domestic enrollment declines. In short,
it appears to me that Australia has utilized its scant resources to the best of
its capacity while Canada’s institutions have yet to do so and have displayed
an elegant example of agency theory without greater revelation of forever
missed past and future opportunities to support research which maintains and
ensures Canada’s quality of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Message for UK or British based recruiters: </b>As you will see from my background and c.v. my experience spans fifteen years in Asia and The Middle East. I have spent the past eight years conducting pure research in international business management and am graduate qualified in cross-cultural management. </div>
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So kindly refrain from forwarding these kinds of offers. For example, do not describe 45,000 USD as an excellent salary for Saudi Arabia. It's not. I know its not. How could it be when 50,000 a year was the bottom end of salaries in The UAE a dozen years ago? Or another example, claiming a salary of 7,000 USD a month is inclusive of benefits where the salary is actually 5500 USD a month? </div>
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For some reason, UK and British recruiters have a tendency to misrepresent the salary offer in their advertisements for MENA based positions. Perhaps it is a cultural difference. As I have been recruited by numerous American agencies in the past, this misrepresentation of salary with benefits has never been an issue with US based recruiters. </div>
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<b>Recommendation:</b> Seek to practice your recruitment role with intellectual honesty and Canadians will be more likely to work with you. For example, I am more than willing to negotiate to gain a desirable Saudi-based position, if the contract, benefits and salary are reasonable. After fifteen years in my industry, I certainly know my business. So let's not play any games. </div>
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Your offers are so far below what I would require to go sit in the desert without a drop of whiskey it is laughable.</div>
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So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-80624219994945076302013-01-14T00:14:00.000+09:002013-01-30T02:07:29.108+09:00Submission of Reasoned Suggestions to The Nova Scotia Commission on Building our New Economy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Submission of Reasoned Suggestions to<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://novascotia.ca/neweconomy/">TheNova Scotia Commission on Building our New Economy</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How
to get more than six seconds: Why did it take three hundred years and an
Icelandic entrepreneur for Nova Scotian stockfish heads and tails to find an
export market in Africa? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This letter to your committee receives a preface; Dr. Ray
Ivany, you made a pledge to call all Acadia Alumni upon arriving at your
current post. I am still waiting for your call, my telephone number is
1-902-681-0504.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now allow me to give a
backgrounder: Bred on English language by the Acadia University Department of
English Literature and Theatre my BA was gained with three years of science
studies while working as an international shipping lobster packer, grader and
cook at Hall’s Harbour Lobster Pound. I worked my way across Canada and ended
up spending the last fifteen years teaching and studying abroad in Korea and
The United Arab Emirates, gaining a Master’s of International Business from The
University of Wollongong in Dubai and Australia in the top 5% of my class and
holding a letter of recommendation for doctoral studies from the Dean. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UOW Sydney Business
School has gained fourteen positions of quality to third ranked business school
in Australia over the past eight years since I graduated. The program has
doubled in size, price and duration and it was the first MIB graduate program
in the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where are the comparable improvements in quality and ranking
of Nova Scotia Business Schools?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A most recently
completed eGSA Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation with
Queensland University of Technology comes from the Australia Technology Network
(ATN). eGSA provides preferred research management training for The Australian
Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), The Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Cooperative
Research Centres (CRCs) around Australia. QUT is the first institution in the
world to offer a Master’s in Research Management.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My travel and research
experiences have taken me to: South
Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, India,
Sri Lanka, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Morocco,
Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands, The United States, Australia and Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are those who
travel to expand the mind; there are those who visit as many places as
possible. Personally I like about a week at a time in a new city. Since
completing my most recent teaching position for a record breaking six years and
besides off-ramping here since March 2012, I found the time to visit a new
place every week from July to December across the Southern US States, Morocco
for two months and Southern and Central Spain for a month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A year off-ramped in
Nova Scotia; a dozen applications to relevant teaching positions at <a href="http://www.nscc.ca/">Nova ScotiaCommunity College</a> and a half a dozen export trade positions at <a href="http://www.novascotiabusiness.com/en/home/default.aspx">NSBI</a> without a
single call back getting a real sense of what newcomers here face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The English major in me reads most
texts cover to cover, the international business teacher adds new knowledge and
method based on what appears to be working elsewhere and compiles long
bibliographical references in the case studies I have researched. At the
moment, I am on a 24 hour deadline for submitting a panel position proposal for
the first time to the Academy of International Business on the topic of
comparative investment strategies in China and India for the 2013 Conference in
Istanbul; a city I am familiar with and would enjoy returning to visit. It is
the first time they have asked me to and as an itinerant and contract teacher
abroad looking for work there is nothing better than a conference. So please
accept that my global to local suggestions are un-referenced however in due time
accessible if need be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ONE: LOOK AT THE WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is my opinion that rural Nova
Scotia is running out of good ideas as well as people. So my first suggestion
is to start looking at other well developed nations that are facing similar
challenges all at the same time. Particularly good research is coming out of </span><a href="http://www.academia.edu/185700/_THE_H.I.G.H.E.R._PROJECT_"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Terry
Mughan’s Department</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> at Anglia Ruskin University </span><a href="http://www.essexbusinesssupport.com/east-of-england-development-agency/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and The
East of England Development Agency</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> on the topic of business
incentives to repopulating rural or economic wastelands with small scale
superstores to replace bankrupt groceries in food desert environments. When the
researchers present the business case to, for example, Tesco, that square
footage profit returns are nearly identical in well placed heritage districts,
decaying communities get walking distance food sources that haven’t existed in
many locations for fifty years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">His results based applied research
is just a taste of what is out there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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THE CORES OF RURAL COMMUNITY à la TRIPLE HELIX<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nova Scotia is full of rural
communities that have seen most of their essential services close, reducing
their attractiveness to newcomers. The </span><a href="http://www.triplehelixinstitute.org/thi/ithi_drupal/sites/default/files/uploaded/documents/TripleHelix_BuildingAnInstitute.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">triple
helix model</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> of higher education institutions, government and
local businesses designing regional partnerships is off and running in many
nations compared to Nova Scotia. The scales of these partnerships are
determined through rate of return business cases. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A character </span><a href="http://www.clusternavigators.com/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">like Ifor Ffowcs-Williams</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> comes to
mind as a Canadian triple helix model and cellular team building across
disciplines expert who could probably assist you in internationalizing and
globalizing your rural development programs. I think you need more knowledge
based exchanges with Nova Scotian based experts taking work terms in other
regions of the developed world to assist in developing strategies that are
really working elsewhere and repatriate good ideas from abroad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MISSIONS ABROAD BUT EXCHANGE POSTS ABROAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These are the kinds of learning
and knowledge exchanges that the Japanese conducted after WW II to rebuild a
shattered economy. They are also documented in several quality framework
improvements in government and community services undertaken in places like New
Zealand around the same time as the Japanese. As for Nova Scotians, there are
some culturally inherent skills that we do better than anywhere else in the
world so an accountable checklist of world leading advantages to the way Nova
Scotians tackle certain challenges better than anywhere else in the world needs
to be made. Exchange is always about sharing as much as is received.
Unfortunately, Nova Scotia shares much of Canada’s cultural and global
knowledge complacency. Less than 2% of all higher education students have
international work or study experiences in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So why not double the number of business,
education, and government leaders concerned with this issue committed to taking
international exchanges over the next ten years? Should not these Nova Scotians
take the time to go abroad and learn of new ways to handle similar local
challenges and should not their commitment to do so be as incentives to their
own promotions and advancement? Such quality knowledge gathering strategies
have worked all over the world and improved the quality of lives of workers,
students, governments and societies for millennia. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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TWO: NEW TAX BENEFIT INCENTIVES</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nobody needs to tell you, you know
already, your business and personal taxes are the most horrendous in the nation
surely advertising, “Don’t come here.” So this suggestion is multifaceted.
Observe New Brunswick’s historical and seemingly better track record of
attracting new businesses that exactly remain beyond incentives. They are
certainly doing something differently to make that happen, and while I don’t
know what that is, there is a very near example of where comparative learning
and application could be taking place. However considering your rates of return
on recent millions provided to either profitable or non-profitable enterprises
as of late, there is a better example. Take a look at the foreign direct
investment policies for example in </span><a href="http://www.investsrilanka.com/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sri Lanka</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> or </span><a href="http://www.boi.go.th/index.php?page=intro&language=en"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thailand</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While Sri Lanka is making do with
low skilled industries with low wages and benefits, there is the distinct
possibility that free trade zones in Nova Scotia employing potential immigrants
or foreign workers as low skilled labourers would actually work. Especially if
unionized port environment construction and maintenance teams were employed.
The cost to deliver to markets might make up the difference. As the new
regional development authorities are being formed, they should encompass free
trade zones for particular industries on a similar design framework as a
country like Thailand where Bangkok does not beggar its rural regions, in fact
the farther you get from the capital the better the incentives are. As the US
import and export economy as set to double in scale and logistical capacities
by the year 2025, it makes sense to look at the hinterland port schemes
employed in parts of </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21549956"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">China</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> and </span><a href="http://www.enterpriseone.gov.sg/en/Topics/Import%20and%20Export/Depositing%20and%20Storing%20Your%20Goods/imp_ftz.aspx"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Singapore</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Western
Europe has also managed to set up a few as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DEVELOPMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Factories and port facilities are
often indistinguishable in Asia to avoid costly delivery and logistics delays
due to poor transport infrastructure. In my opinion, many of Nova Scotia’s
underutilized ports should be free trade zones where they could even promote
sweatshop free practices. These are creative suggestions that are working in
many international ports and rural incentive programs around the world. The
only difference there would be between having labourers assemble your many
common household and consumer products in South East Asia and Canada is a few
thousand kilometres and ever increasing energy constraints. There are probably
dozens of Asian manufacturers as well as Mexican based maquiladoras who might
lose out if a similar ready to occupy infrastructure were prepared for
relocations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Excellent examples of heritage
port facilities which could and should be renovated into free trade small
business zones exist all over Nova Scotia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Allen’s or Canada Packer’s, Maple Leaf Foods, or Larsen’s, the list goes on,
what research into new foreign markets and product adaptations to meet ever
shifting demands was going on in these decades old companies? What local
universities were assisting them by sending student teams out into net food importing
nations such as those in North East Asia to find out what their tastes might
be? To give two unrelated examples, I choose Korean ones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Did you know that Korean jewellery
manufacturers dominate the supply of the Dubai Gold Souk and they learned how
to do so by sending market researchers out there consulting with wholesalers
and delivering a quality product and that that domination of the market did not
take place in decades but in years? Or that Samsung cellphones for example, do
not dominate based upon price or quality but upon the short and dizzying three
month life cycles of their phones or that they test release dozens of new
products in their home Korean market because, for most global companies in the
world, Korea is one of the best test market guinea pigs? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRADUATE STUDENTS IN MARKETING WITH REAL BUSINESS CASES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I often wonder if some of the
local businesses above could have been saved in selective three and five year
international market penetration plans with tailored products to offer those
consumers not here at home but in emerging markets abroad which have the most
growth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They aren’t in Europe or Boston,
they are in Africa where the Chinese are making billions, they are in Tamil
Nadu where the Japanese and Koreans are making billions; new markets are
growing, that’s where Nova Scotian products need to be sold. I remember walking
into a five story warehouse of Italian household furniture in Busan, Korea a
few years ago and thinking to myself, “not one of these chairs looks as good as
a Bass River Chair.” And when I contacted Bass River Chairs and suggested they
might find a good market there for their products, their manager told me they
don’t do exports. And now Bass River Chairs no longer exists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SME EXPORT TRADE DEVELOPMENT PRONTO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The takeaway is any product based
company in Nova Scotia that has existed for more than five years should be
given a tax incentive to hire a dedicated export manager and eventually five
years later, two more to form a full export department without excuses. Especially in traditional and culturally
intangible industries like even quilting or knitting or the carding of wool,
the makers of goat’s cheese, the brewers of fair trade coffee; in Korea there’s
a guy who salts smoked mackerel by hand and he is more famous there than
Colonel Saunders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FOUR: INCENTIVIZE THE FOREIGN STUDENT WELCOME, THEIR PARENTS, FAMILIES AND
FRIENDS WILL COME<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How many of Nova Scotia’s
universities are presenting international students with internet welcome pages
in their own native languages? How many of them are coordinating with The
Department of Tourism to design similar local language information and booking
services for visits to Nova Scotia? How many of the international students in
school boards across the province are coordinating with The Department of
Tourism to welcome student’s families to this beautiful province? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And when you say that the school
boards and universities of this province are not responsible for improving
economic and employment opportunities here and engaging the international
markets of the world with the same dedication those Team Canada hockey players
put into the game, the purpose of education is put into doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And again, how many Nova Scotian
school boards are studying the non-profit agencies in Northern British Columbia
to ensure that little two room schoolhouses like those in the Wentworth Valley
get to stay open because they’re not only still serving rural and small
community schools but fully financing their operating costs through their
international student draws? Finally, how many Nova Scotian universities are
operating offshore campuses or franchise operations to ensure their market is
being adequately presented abroad? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There are multiple solutions to
keeping schools in rural Nova Scotia. Why aren’t the national and international
best practices available to be implemented not being made? The tourist draw of
international students in their home nations, are they being pursued? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is not my intention to
overwhelm your committee with my suggestions. However it is my opinion, that if
Nova Scotians had all of the answers and the examples of what works here in
their midst, then you would not be asking for opinions from the general public
and the state of affairs would be rosier and brighter than they are. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In Nova Scotia and perhaps Canada
and the western world, the suggestion box is almost always nearly empty when
compared with those in places like Japan. Our quality of life depends on trying
out new ideas that make sense. But without a culture that rewards and applies
new ideas to improve the quality of life of its citizens, many of the best and
brightest lighthouse keepers, where pure research and one person’s one idea
begins, will always remain on foreign shores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Good ideas make sense at any time.
It’s my pleasure to share mine with you, so don’t be devaluing the training and
experience it took to submit them to you however free. Imagine what the result
could be? Perhaps six seconds turns into six minutes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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J. Costello<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MIB (UOW)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19089383.post-43534554043375192132012-06-20T05:46:00.002+09:002012-06-20T05:46:57.309+09:002 Timothy 3:1-7
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?</div>Daniel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666102412079717778noreply@blogger.com0