The security and salary of a doctor are not what they used to be. Many fresh graduates are now working other jobs while waiting to be posted for housemanship. However, one must learn that entering the healthcare service must be done without any expectations, especially when dealing with a flawed system. Salaries are also unlikely to go up anytime soon, so if you want to be a young millionaire, do not be a doctor.

Working shifts does not mean there is no allowance for rest. This is highly dependent on the respective hospitals and departments, and the centres I have worked in so far have always allowed adequate rest and a decent place to sleep during an on-call. Not all bosses or superiors are tyrants and many, in fact, teach and mentor excellently.

In addition, patients are naturally more demanding, and some may even turn to lawsuits for a quick buck. To those who are considering a career in medicine, if you cannot bear with frustrating and rude people, perhaps a change of direction is necessary. Do not walk in the rain and complain about getting wet.

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We can no longer remain silent while students, teachers, and classified employees are slain on school campuses with assault weapons designed for combat. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on February 14, 2018, took the lives of 14 students and three teachers while injuring dozens of others. It has fueled fear in classrooms across our nation. It was the latest terrible incident. We want to make it the last. There are many ways to reduce the chances of this happening again, but President Trump, arming teachers is not one of them. We encourage more state governors and lawmakers to follow California’s lead as the state with the strongest gun control laws.

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Drug trafficking among adolescents is a problem that involves a large numbers of youths. Mass media campaigns against the use of drugs have been common in the US and seem to have played a role in reducing consumption of both legal and illegal drugs. The mass media should increase the influence of these antidrug messages by changing the social climate surrounding drug use. The media may be a particularly effective way to reach adolescents and to unite the institutions that could influence adolescents against involvement in the drug trade.

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In the context of education, the role of higher educational institutions has traditionally and largely been to ensure their graduates get jobs. The motivation for knowledge in and of itself is not a good enough reason to enter university or college – it is just not worth the debt. Arguably, for most universities, graduate employability is their strongest selling point.

Thus, the motivation within higher education today, especially in this era, is to offer the most industry-relevant programmes, filled with technical curriculum. Oftentimes, this happens at the expense of more humanistic subjects or even soft skills.Our fear is that we produce graduates who thrive in the new economy and become billionaires by coming up with innovative products, but just do not give a hoot about society around them.

The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) must also recognise the role of higher education institutions in not only their qualifications and commitment in offering top-notch digital technology courses but also in moulding a generation of graduates with commendable emotional intelligence and social skills.

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In the context of education, the role of higher educational institutions has traditionally and largely been to ensure their graduates get jobs. The motivation for knowledge in and of itself is not a good enough reason to enter university or college – it is just not worth the debt. Arguably, for most universities, graduate employability is their strongest selling point.

Thus, the motivation within higher education today, especially in this era, is to offer the most industry-relevant programmes, filled with technical curriculum. Oftentimes, this happens at the expense of more humanistic subjects or even soft skills.Our fear is that we produce graduates who thrive in the new economy and become billionaires by coming up with innovative products, but just do not give a hoot about society around them.

The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) must also recognise the role of higher education institutions in not only their qualifications and commitment in offering top-notch digital technology courses but also in moulding a generation of graduates with commendable emotional intelligence and social skills.

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The government’s call to further enhance female participation in many spheres of the economy deserves much support. Females easily make up half the population. However, their participation rates in the workforce do not match their corresponding share in the population.

Over the years, their involvement in many occupations has improved remarkably. Now, we want more females to be at the helm of private corporate management and governance. Female members of boards of private companies should constitute at least 30 per cent of the total number.

In fact, Malaysia should be able to harness a much higher level of female participation in almost all branches of economic undertaking, given the higher level of attainment in education by female students and the availability of education facilities, including financing. We need to encourage more females to enter the workforce, especially in professions and vocations that suit their choice, training, and competency.

What is the issue of the above extracts?

The government’s call to further enhance female participation in many spheres of the economy deserves much support. Females easily make up half the population. However, their participation rates in the workforce do not match their corresponding share in the population.

Over the years, their involvement in many occupations has improved remarkably. Now, we want more females to be at the helm of private corporate management and governance. Female members of boards of private companies should constitute at least 30 per cent of the total number.

In fact, Malaysia should be able to harness a much higher level of female participation in almost all branches of economic undertaking, given the higher level of attainment in education by female students and the availability of education facilities, including financing. More females should be employed in professions and vocations that suit their choice, training, and competency.

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The Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warned that a culture of impunity will result in more attacks against journalists, who play crucial roles in holding power to account and bringing information to the public. “Media is under increasing threat across Southeast Asia,” APHR member Teddy Baguilat, a Philippines lawmaker, said. APHR also flagged the situation in Myanmar, a country which has been widely criticized for the seven-year prison sentence given to journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, on charges of violating an archaic official secrets act while they were investigating a story on the Rohingya crisis. In view of these attacks, it is imperative for governments in Southeast Asia to check growing attacks on press freedom and punish those responsible for killing journalists.

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Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S. workforce – in new technologies is the latest reminder that the much-heralded future of work is well underway.

Policymakers, analysts and scholars trying to discern the retailer’s motives and objectives chalked it up to a public relations move or the natural result of a tight labour market. Others deemed it standard retraining and investment.

Lost in the reaction, however, is what it means for the labour force. The main message in Amazon’s announcement is clear and indisputable: The jobs of tomorrow will require at least some competency in the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math. However, do we want to leave it to companies like Amazon to take the lead in making sure we are ready?

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Internships have increasingly come under the political spotlight following the 2017 Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, which condemned unpaid internships. Both the Low Paid Commission and the Social Mobility Commission have also called for an end to unpaid Internships, stating that their “damaging impact on social mobility cannot be understated”.

Recent developments in case law and government guidance have made it clear that just labelling someone an ‘intern’ or a ’volunteer’ will not determine what their status is. If there is a verbal or written agreement for an intern to personally provide a service, then there is an increased risk that the intern would be regarded as a worker.

Carrying out work or providing a service on its own is not enough – the intern would also need to be paid a wage or remuneration of some kind to qualify as a worker, giving them rights to be paid the national minimum wage, receive holiday pay and have protection from discrimination, to name a few.

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Businesses get stuck with the same people speaking up and the same people getting heard or ignored. This is how they become echo chambers, with every new change, strategy and transformation looking a lot like what went before.

New ideas sit on the shelf. Things that shouldn’t be going on aren’t called out. People lose any sense of being able to influence what goes on. We need to help silenced employees find their voice, transforming fear, cynicism and helplessness into a force for innovation and creative energy.

Most human resource work in this area focuses on the necessary, but insufficient, development of employees’ confidence and courage to speak up. The unspoken assumption is that if you’re not speaking up, it’s your problem. Our research indicates there is an even more important aspect. We are more likely to speak up if we feel it’s safe and if the invitation comes from a place of positive intention.

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It is no secret that farming is typically more than a one-person job, especially on large-scale operations with several moving parts. As a result, many farmers rely on hired agricultural workers or farm hands, but some are finding it more challenging to find reliable employees. Today, the average age of a farmer is 58 years old. Farmers are finding that newer generations, not just in the United States but across the globe, are not taking up agriculture. There is a multibillion-dollar loss right now because there is not enough people to do the work. One of the big things that we are also concerned about is food deserts and how you can sustainably provide fresh produce to everybody. That is one of the reasons farmers selected hydroponics for growing.

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Over a billion people communicate through Facebook Messenger every day. Facebook says it takes measures to keep users’ information private and shares information on how some of its security works. According to Facebook, Messenger uses the same secure communications protocols as banking and shopping sites. The company also says it uses additional protection to stop spam and malware.

However, Vyas Sekar, a faculty member of CyLab at Carnegie Melon University and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, disputes Facebook’s security and reveals how someone might still find ways around it. Sekar says that anything can be hacked.

More importantly, no amount of security will stop someone from accessing your private messages if they decide to do so by physically accessing the device they are on. If someone is able to access your device, besides simply glancing at your private messages, they might also be able to install a hidden spying app that can continue to access information in the background of your phone or computer.

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New research suggests that elements of your appearance that are far more difficult to control also have a substantial impact on those all-important first impressions. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas asked a group of American subjects to look at bodies of different shapes—not just thin and fat, but detailed variations such as pear-shaped and broad-shouldered—and assign personality traits to those shapes. The 76 subjects readily assigned personality traits to body types, and they did it with considerable consistency. Even small changes in body shape can still have a meaningful effect on what total strangers assume a person will be like. The fatter a body got, the more negative the traits associated with it were, like carelessness and disorganization. The leaner a body, the better a person was assumed to be, with characteristics of determination and curiosity.

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