The
Delamere-International Newsletter ©
Edition
of 31 July, 2002 #113
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IN
THIS ISSUE
1.
Immigration News: British overseas citizens to get right
to live in UK.
2. Immigration News: Visitors to the USA.
3.
Education: False Degrees are on the Increase.
4.
Education: How much is a college degree worth?
5.
Education: Canada Funds E-Learning Research Project.
6. How to Manage Being Retrenched.
7. It's official - the rich get richer and the poor get
the picture.
8.
Global Trade: NEPAD must not fail say African leaders.
9.
Global Trade: PM Tony Blair's statement.
10.
Global Trade: New Development in South African Mining Rights
11.
Business: New Laws Proposed in the UK to benefit small business.
12.
Internet: Surfers Still Guided by Search Engines
13.
Internet: UK increasingly adopts Internet.
14.
Internet: Tourism companies urged to "Go for IT."
15.
Environment and the UK Countryside
16.
Books of the Month
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1. Immigration News: British overseas citizens to
get right to live in UK.
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The government has met a long-standing obligation to British
citizens living overseas during decolonisation. It has been
announced that certain British Overseas citizens would have
the option to acquire British citizenship, with the right
to live in the UK. This will affect many of our clients
in Eastern Africa. click
here.
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2. Immigration News: INS broadens fingerprint scanning.
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This
summer, the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS) plans to begin using electronic fingerprint scanners
to check the identities of tens of thousands of foreign
visitors as they arrive at airports in the United States.
For
more details
Don't forget to visit our Immigration
Update page on our web site.
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3. Education: Beware of False Degrees from So-called
Universities.
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South
Africa has emerged as a hub of one of the world's biggest
fake university degree scams, offering diploma and degree
certificates on the Internet via email spam and telemarketing.
Fake degrees from the so-called "Harrington University"
came to light after a Bothasig woman accused a Maitland
electronic surveillance expert of posing as an academic
doctor in electronics and later found herself defending
a defamation claim in court. Read
full story
Editor's
Note: Our firm promotes the arrangement of obtaining
degrees from reputable and recognized Universities, based
on work experience, accomplishments in ones life, and prior
study, but are strongly opposed to fictitious Colleges or
Universities using this sales scam.
Visit our College Page, and check "How to obtain
a legally recognized degree." click
here
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4. Education: How much is a college degree worth?
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London
- A study has come up with an answer to the old question
about how much a college degree is worth - about £400 000
pounds (about R8-million).
The
Graduate Market Trends report by the Careers Services
Unit, a public agency which helps place students in
employment, said that university graduates earn on average
£6 000 (about R100 000) a year more than non-graduates before
they reach the age of 30. Read
full account.
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5. Education: Canada Funds E-Learning Research Project.
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The
National Research Council (NRC) of Canada's Institute
for Information Technology has started a project to conduct
scientific research in the development of educational courseware.
Canada's
NRC operates research facilities and technology support
networks to help spark innovation in Canadian industry.
NRC-ITT said it would work with Mosaic Technologies Corp.,
a Canadian educational technologies company, to launch the
project. "We are very pleased to work with a private
sector leader in the e-learning field to help advance Canada's
position as a major player in the development of advanced
training technologies," said Christian Couturier, Director,
Atlantic Research Programs, NRC-IIT.
Does e-leaning actually work in practice? Read more on our
web page. click
here
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6. How to Manage Being Retrenched
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We
are receiving numerous reports from readers of our Newsletter,
of friends or family being laid off or being retrenched.
Being fired (or retrenched) is an enormous upheaval and
a significant source of stress.
Change
in itself, whether for better or worse, is stressful, according
to psychological literature.
Like
divorce, retrenchment is not an event, but a process. It
may play itself out over a long period of time, and affects
everybody in the company.
Those who have been retrenched are possibly the worst affected,
but individuals who are doing the retrenching and those
left behind are unlikely to escape unscathed. Psychological
consequences may be seen in the termination meeting and
will also present themselves after the individual has left
the company.
To read the full account
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7. It's official - the rich get richer and the poor
get the picture
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Washington
- The economic prosperity of the 1990s gave a financial
boost to Americans who were already doing well, producing
fatter paychecks and more college degrees, Census 2000 figures
show.
Still, many less fortunate Americans were unable to escape
poverty. That's the message from the complete state-by-state
data taken from long-form questionnaires. The statistics
show that poverty rates remained highest in rural towns
in the South and Midwest and incomes stagnated in urban
counties in California and the Northeast. Read
more
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8. Global Trade: NEPAD must not fail say African leaders.
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Durban
- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
cannot be allowed to fail and will proceed whether or not
the international community climbs on board. In what was
the strongest statement of intent to date.
South
African President Thabo Mbeki and his Nigerian counterpart,
Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday committed Africa to peace and
security and good economic, political and corporate governance.
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read full story,
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9. Global Trade: PM Tony Blair's statement on G8
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In
a statement to Parliament following his attendance at the
G8 summit in Canada, the British Prime Minister said: "I
can tell the House that we expect UK bilateral spending
on Africa to rise from around £650 million a year now to
£1 billion by 2006." More
news
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10. Global Trade: New Development in South African
Mining.
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A
new bill could change South Africa's mining industry. The
highly complex Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development
Bill basically removes land and mineral rights held
in perpetuity by big mining houses, such as Anglo American,
and invests them in the government. The mine owners have
cried "nationalization", while the government has
responded: "Justified redistribution of inequitably held
wealth."
The
law was approved last week by South Africa's principal parliamentary
institution, the lower House of Assembly. Our readers are
asking, "Could this move spell disaster for the investors
in precious metals?" Check
our Investment Page.
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11. Business: New Laws Proposed in the UK to benefit
small business.
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New
proposals to cut red tape and save small business around
£170 million a year have been unveiled with the publication
of a new White Paper 'Modernizing Company Law.'
Acknowledged
as the most fundamental review of company law in 150 years,
the White Paper is the first part of the government's response
to the Company Law Review completed last year.
Other
key proposals include:
