Email a friend Use commas to separate multiple email addresses From Your message has been sent. Sorry CIO | Apr 24, 2017 6:29 AM PT Credit: Thinkstock 5 hard truths about employee engagement Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses and certifications. You can take individual courses at no charge, and many of them can be accredited towards an edX credential. Here are just some of the PM courses available to students and professionals. These courses are free unless

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The training is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrive. Students will learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, bites and stings. The training will take place on Monday, April 24 from 9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m. at the LaSalle County Health

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We clarify with families and locals the misconceptions about working in the tourism industry. We explain the strategy and potential opportunities." With Dubais goal of attracting 20 million tourists a year by 2020, there is a need for manpower. Since January, Dubai Tourism has run English courses as part of its nationalisation programme to attract school leavers and graduates. "We are educating families to understand the career opportunities for growth among locals," Mr Petrillose said. Once open, the college will undergo accreditation from Dubais education regulator, the Knowledge and Human

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AFRINIC offers a comprehensive training programme and provides free training throughout Africa in both French and English to around 600 African network engineers every year,equipping network engineers and operators with key knowledge about IPv6 deployment and transition techniques. IP (Internet Protocol) addresses denote individual devices connected to the Internet and the IPv6 128-bit addressing system significantly expands the number of IP addresses available for devices from smartphones to gaming consoles. It's been estimated that 85% of available IP addresses have already been allocated

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As part of Fire Safety Training that, a sofa needed to be taken up to the first floor apartment. It was too large to be taken up the stairs and instead five workers stood on balcony to haul it up from the pavement. The firm engaged in the project, originally budgeted for 600,000, and its managing director are on trial at the Old Bailey over their deaths Mr Darbishire said: 'As they hauled the sofa up about 20 feet to the level of the balcony, the workers were hauling against, and leaning over, the balustrade. 'The 130-year-old Victorian cast iron balustrade gave way and two of the men fell

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It comes after a recent survey commissioned by the institution, which revealed that business leaders across the region are identifying worker protection against injury and ill health as vital to safeguarding their business' reputation and resilience and improving productivity. Meanwhile the number of members of IOSHs Qatar Branch has increased from 86 to nearly 500 in the five years since it was launched. These members work across a range of industries to keep the number of people injured at work or becoming ill to a minimum. Robert Murphy, chair of IOSHs Qatar Branch, said: It is clear there

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Instead of learning to treat cuts and burns, those who attend the all-day workshop will learn to give mental health first aid. According to Derrik Tollefson, director of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at USU, this is the first time a workshop of this type has been offered in Cache County. He said it will give participants basic training and knowledge around mental health and how they can be helpful to people who may have mental health challenges. The analogy to first aid training is appropriate, he said, because just like folks would go to a first aid training to

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