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Workers not speaking the languages firms need
For Brown University professor Patricia Sobral, explaining the career-related benefits of being bilingual is quite simple. more
Students building skills in R.I. marine trades
If you pay them, they will come – to the International Yacht Restoration School’s Summer Work & Learn program, that is. more
Jennifer Parkhurst
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Derek Lombard
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Melissa W. Gould
Age: 37 more
7/23/12
URI granted $14M to create adult care program
The University of Rhode Island has received a $14 million federal grant to run a new program that will provide care for cognitively challenged adults. more
A summer well spent at Lifespan youth program
When the 93 graduates of Lifespan’s 2012 Summer Youth Employment Program went onstage to receive their certificates on Aug. 17 at the Gerry House on the Rhode Island Hospital campus, there were almost double that number of family, friends and mentors in the audience, cheering on their accomplishment. more
By Richard Asinof
Contributing Writer | 9/10/12
JWU gets to work on internships with new $4M fund
With an ever-increasing focus on a so-called gap in skills that willing employers complain today’s emerging workforce just doesn’t have, an emphasis on in-school job training has accelerated the already established benefit of college internships. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 9/24/12

Plumbing for answers on trade-skills gap
Keith Vadas has seen both sides of the trade versus office job-skill debate that often surrounds arguments on available jobs and work force development these days. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 10/8/12

Developers show interest in shared nursing center
When voters head to the polls in November to decide whether the state will borrow $50 million to renovate three Rhode Island College buildings, some may suspect it means the end of plans for a shared nursing center with the University of Rhode Island. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 10/8/12

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