IN 2011, Foster Huntington quit his successful job in New York City to live in a tree house (two, actually) on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge in the US. In a few months, with the help of friends and a construction crew, Foster created his dream world, complete with treetop homes connected by swinging bridges, an on-site …
Since its inception just two months ago, the International Alumni Job Network already has 10,000 alumni engaged and it is on track to reach 100,000 by the end of the year. The network is tailored for Asian alumni who have graduated from universities in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, who can browse the online jobs board and look …
In early February this year, Destination Cape Breton, the tourist association for the rugged island off Nova Scotia, was fielding its usual one to two online inquiries a week. Then local radio host Rob Calabrese launched a cheeky website called Cape Breton If Donald Trump Wins, encouraging Americans to consider a move. Its home page read: “Hey Americans! Donald Trump …
Graduates who move overseas and fail to repay their student loans after their studies should be arrested, suggests an education expert who has authored a report on what the UK can learn from New Zealand’s higher education sector. Sam Cannicott, former Regent’s University London employee who now works for Statistics New Zealand, described how New Zealand’s “no-nonsense approach” to collecting student loan repayments …
The UK’s Department for International Development has announced £100m of funding to help 175,000 of the world’s poorest girls get an education. The push will include smartcards that monitor attendance and offer incentives for families to send their daughters to school. It will also deploy satellite broadband to improve connectivity in rural areas. Putting girls through school is increasingly seen …
PASSENGERS who have thirsted for a better beer experience on a flight are in luck — an exciting addition to the drinks menu is coming to one of Europe’s major airlines. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is gearing up to be the first airline to serve draught beer on tap. The game-changing development will follow years of experimenting with keg designs …
Electronics firm Hewlett Packard Corporation (HPE) has been presented $3bn (£2.26bn) in damages in a criminal dispute with software giant Oracle. The row took place due to the fact Oracle reneged on a contractual agreement to hold making software that ran on excessive–stop Itanium chips. The courtroom conflict over the settlement turned into settled in 2012 but the damages HPE …
Spain is encouraging Indian movie-makers to apply its fiestas, cities and historic monuments as settings for his or her movies, which will increase percentage of India’s outbound tourism market. The parent reviews that Madrid will host the once a year worldwide Indian film Academy awards, known as the “Bollywood Oscars”, this 12 months. a few of the stars who will …
Vistara will release its first flights beyond the Indian mainland later this yr, connecting to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. effective 30 September 2016, the airline will begin offerings from Delhi to Port Blair, the capital of the Indian island territory, thru Kolkata. Flights will function day by day, departing Delhi at 0720 and arriving in Port Blair at 1230, …
in relation to the destiny of tv 4K might be stealing a variety of the limelight, however it might be high Dynamic variety (HDR) that brings the large soar in photograph quality we have been awaiting. Now that the UHD Alliance has included HDR in the UHD top class specification, the generation has been cemented as being of same significance …