Romania’s finally got a field where it is an uncontested world leader: the shortage of talent on the labour market. Engineers, skilled manual trades and executives are the top missing ones.
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Despre timpul liber…
… in editia de maine a Cotidianului. Doar daca gasiti putin timp liber sa cititi, bineinteles :-).
PS. Spatiul de 5000 de semne alocat nu a permis un tratament mai amplu, dar sunt bineinteles deschis comentariilor/ completarilor/ intrebarilor etc.
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Why the Bayesian statistician cannot stand Bayesian statistics: I actually thought he meant it… for a few seconds. Best academic April 1st prank this year.
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“Insead, for example, has set up a virtual campus on Second Life, to complement its physical campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and in Singapore.
Best phrase I’ve read so far today
→ Read more[…] Basescu has repeated his insistence that Székelyföld will have no more nor less autonomy than anywhere else. This is not a position with which I disagree in principle, but since he trotted it out two years ago and has done absoultely nothing towards decentralisation in Romania since, it is clear that what he means by “Covasna will have the same amount of autonomy as Calarasi and Constanta” is, in fact, “absolutely none”.
EU beer drinking profiles
Findings, inter alia: Danes and Swedes are the true beer lovers; Romanians, the most generous beer drinkers, though I bet that only holds for Romanian-priced beer. What SABMiller’s sponsored descriptive study didn’t ask is what types of beer people actually prefer, across the EU countries; or perhaps their own brands did not fare well?
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