Fairfield County might soon become the new home of the entrepreneur reports ctpost.com. In response to interest from their students, Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business has launched a new concentration in entrepreneurship. “When we’d make presentations to students on management, we would get inquiries into whether we had courses on entrepreneurialism,” said […]
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About 15 years ago, Cynthia Lea Talley saw a nap bag and figured she could make them better, so she made a few; they featured the top and bottom sheets sewn together so they can be handled and washed as one piece rather than two. Then she set about a one-woman marketing effort, reports The
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The clicker is a “personal response device,” a small electronic gadget about the size of a slim calculator. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the trendy, high-tech learning tool, used to take attendance, poll student opinion, and administer quizzes, is taking hold on campuses across the country, with an estimated two million college students now using them,
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These are NOT your father’s back-to-school supplies. Zip-It The Zip-it pencil case can be unzipped all the way for fun as a jump rope or can be used as a sturdy pencil case. The Talkatoo Allows you (or Mom) to record 30-second messages. The pendant comes in several funky designs and can be clipped on
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John A. Byrne it using his bank of knowledge and research on schools to help potential MBA’s find the right school for them through his new website, Poets and Quants. His aim is to share with students a closer look at the various degree programs and to tell the truth about the facilities, their teaching
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Who says couture has to be expensive? Two teenagers walked away with $3000 each for creating their prom outfits entirely out of duct tape. The Arizona Republic says it took Ray Banna and Yancy Esquivel 300 hours to create their designs. They used scissors, permanent markers, a sewing machine and 30 rolls of duct tape.
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Back-to-school spending is expected to be robust this year as parents replenish their kids’ wardrobes and backpacks after two years of weak demand for school gear. Having outgrown shoes, shirts and even backpacks they’ve used the last two years, children heading back to school this year will arrive in style. The National Retail Federation’s 2010
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TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. This past summer, in a sixth-grade math class, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based learning takes the place of the old “let’s all proceed
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Springwise: School lunches are increasingly a focal point in the ongoing battle against childhood obesity. Following survey results suggesting that one of parents’ top concerns is that they don’t typically know what’s on the menu on any given day, the UK’s School Fund Trust has partnered with Somerset County Services to publish its school menu
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 photo credit: Torley Recently there have been quite a few reports stating that newly graduated design specialists are having some trouble landing their dream job in that field, according to FastCompany. The speculation behind this problem is that there are a number of rather important skills that companies look for in design specialists that
