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Beyond the profit principle - 16-05-2008
This interesting article from the Independent highlights the need to think carefully about what qualifications you require to do the job you want to do. It's all very well studying generic development courses, but how much do they guide you on to a career ...
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The first VSO volunteer - 15-05-2008
"Fifty years ago a naive but enthusiastic school leaver arrived in Borneo to teach pupils older than him. Aged 18, David Brown was unwittingly the pioneer for Voluntary Service Overseas.
In 1958, all that was required to volunteer overseas ...
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Another Sunny Year for Solar Power - 15-05-2008
Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts, according to the latest Vital Signs Update from the Worldwatch Institute, produced in collaboration with the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachuset...
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Response to cyclone in Myanmar ‘unacceptably slow’ - 13-05-2008
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his "immense frustration" at Burma's slow response to the cyclone that hit the country 10 days ago.
Mr Ban said aid had been able to reach less than a third of all those at risk.
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