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Performance-Based Pay Systems in Education

Jan 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: General

Much emphasis has been placed and research done on what are commonly called ‘performance based’ pay systems within industry. Around for decades, it is hardly a new idea or practice. The most common example found in many businesses today is the ‘pay by piece’ manufacturing operation in which workers are paid by the quantity of [...]



Yuh handastand di patois?

Jan 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Arts & Leisure, Humour Us

The principal told her staff that all classes at the school would be conducted in proper, standard English, as had been the custom there for many years, and as a foreign teacher from an English-speaking country, I had no problem with that other than my speaking with what a few of my students called a [...]