Work ready or not Recently, the McKinsey Center for Government released the second in its “Education to Employment” series of the reports. The first, “Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works,” released in December 2012, looked at global youth unemployment challenges and the roles of higher education institutions and employers in helping students to make the transition from […]
Healthcare workers urge Americans to ‘scale back’ Thanksgiving gatherings Gary Young, an expert in health policy at Northeastern University, said hospitals are already facing staffing shortages and extreme financial pressures from the pandemic, evidenced by hospital closures and layoffs at a time of unprecedented demand. “There are still many hospitals, particularly in rural areas, that are going to be overwhelmed,” said Young. “The preparation […]
As cases rise again, second thoughts on another lockdown “For the lockdowns, we know that there’s a variability in individuals that can work from home and those that can’t,” said Sam Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. That variability, he explained, leaves people of color and essential workers more exposed to the virus. Moreover, the economic costs of shutting down are felt most deeply by […]
Covid-19 is rapidly spreading in America. The country does not look ready “The idea that people should have skin in the game kind of doesn’t work when you’re also playing with your neighbour’s skin,” says Wendy Parmet, a professor of public-health law at Northeastern University.
Homeland Preparedness News New cyber brief proposes network for sharing cyber threat information with private sector Knake, a senior fellow for cyber policy at CFR and a senior research scientist at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, noted that the Department of Defense already uses such a network for sharing intelligence with cleared defense contractors on threats to their companies. This system, he says, could be replicated as a way to share […]
Tech Republic Wikileaks’ CIA hacks: Apple says it’s already fixed many of the flaws mentioned If the leaked documents are verified, it could have major security implications for Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and all other tech companies. However, it’s not exactly a surprise that these devices are able to be hacked, said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “In the computer security world, it is widely known that […]
Bloomberg Law brief: Twitter not liable for ISIS tweets Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Greene, Civil Liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss Twitter’s Wednesday victory after a federal judge ruled that the social media platform cannot be held responsible for the Islamic State’s use of the network to spread propaganda. Twitter claims that it’s already suspended […]
The Christian Science Monitor Meet David Dworken, the teenager who hacked the Pentagon Within 13 minutes of urging hackers to take their best shot at the Pentagon’s public websites, the US government’s first-ever bug bounty program had its first submission. Just six hours later, hackers had already uncovered nearly 200 vulnerabilities in the Department of Defense’s networks. Already a staple for companies such as Google and Facebook, the […]
Is Boston ready for climate change? Last week’s Boston Globe story indicating that Boston will experience more flooding sooner than thought due to climate change came as no surprise. Scientists monitoring the ice sheet in the Arctic and Greenland noted that it was melting faster than predicted in April. But, is Boston doing enough to prepare? Some work is already underway. […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Teen employment declining, but not at Kennywood In particular, the decline in teen jobs is a symptom of other age groups taking the jobs once reserved for younger workers, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate director at the Boston-based Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. As more people have gone to college, those in their early 20s have demanded part-time retail and restaurant jobs […]
College students think they’re ready for the work force. Employers aren’t so sure. The survey is hardly the first evidence that employers don’t think college graduates are adequately prepared. A 2014 study from Bentley University found that both employers and recent college graduates themselves believe graduates are not prepared for their first jobs. A Gallup study released in the same year found that employers doubt colleges produce students […]
Twitter and blogs are not add-ons to research “The best (and most successful) academics are the ones who are so caught up in the importance of their work, so caught up with their simple passion for a subject, that they publicise it with every breath,” Professor Hitchcock says. He praises the early career scholars who have dismissed concerns that exposing their research too […]