MAPI Research For Education

With the cost of education rising faster than salaries, many families simply can’t afford the expense of activities after school. Consequently, we’re seeing more children being babysat by television and a disturbing rise in the number of kids getting into trouble during those unsupervised hours between school letting out and parents getting home from work. To curtail this trend, many community groups are offering low cost, after-school activities for kids, which are designed to keep them entertained and productive until their parents can pick them up. In this article, Read more

You may want to take a gap year, but worry that while you’re away from your regular studies you might lose your edge. If you’re away from school for long enough, perhaps you’ll need so much time to get back into the educational groove that you’ll fall behind. But there may be a way around this, by engaging in some sort of study while you’re taking the year off. You can feed your soul, learning things that focus on your own interests and desires, yet be fully ready to be a formal student again once you return home. There are multitudes of possibilities, some of Read more

The median time a job seeker spends looking for a job has increased from 3.6 months to 4.4 months from the second to third quarter of 2008. In fact, it’s not unusual to hear of perfectly qualified individuals remaining out-of-work for six months. Additionally, in the third quarter of 2008, 13.4% of job seekers relocated to find work (which is up from 8.9% in the first quarter). Despite these grim statistics, one recruiter reminds us that “All too often, job seekers allow themselves to get mired in the doom and gloom of a failing job market. However, if they can remember to Read more