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==Return on investment in college==
The following Forsooths are from the RSS NEWS  June 2010<br>
Union, RPI rank high on education value.<br>
by Caitlin Tremblay, ''Daily Gazette'' (Schenectady, NY), 30 June 2010, p. A5


The article reports that that two local colleges (Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) “are listed among New York state’s and the nation’s best colleges for making back the money spent on a bachelor degree, according to a study by the website PayScale.com …Payscale, a compensation research website, took the price of the schools’ degree and compared it to the average income of graduates to calculate a ‘return on investment.’ Only those with undergraduate degrees and full-time hourly or salaried jobs were included…Topping Payscale’s list are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (annual ROI of 12.6 percent), California Institute of Technology (12.6 percent) and Harvard University (12.5 percent).”
Labour's betrayal of British workers.<br>
Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created<br>
since 1997 has gone to a foreigner<br>


The website [http://www.payscale.com/education/average-cost-for-college-ROI Paycale.com] (which also explains the methodology) asserts that “A return on investment (ROI) calculation tells you what you get back for what you spend - and it's a great way to compare college costs…PayScale helps you figure out which school's tuition costs will return the biggest dividends for you after graduation.”
Immigration was at the centre of the<br>
election campaign today as it emerged<br>
'''Discussion Questions'''
that virtually every extra job created<br>
under Labour has gone to a foreign<br>
worker.


With the help of the Payscale.com website methodology description:
Figures suggested an extraordinary 98.5<br>
per cent of 1.67milion new posts were <br>
taken by immigrants. <br>


<ol>
The ONS figures show the total number of <br>
<li>Critique, from a statistical perspective,  the use of the results of this study in comparing colleges with regard to assessing “what you get back for what you spend.”
people in work in both the private and <br>
the public sector has risen from around<br>
25.7million in 1997 to 27.4milllion at the<br>
end of last year, an increase of 1.67million<br>


<li>How might the validity of such a study be improved and, if implemented, how would this impact any reservations you might have about the conclusions that you might draw?
But the number of  workers born abroad<br>
has increased dramatically by 1.64million<br>
from 1.9million to 3.5 million.<br>


<li>Comment on any other aspects of the underlying methodology and how it might be improved.
Daily Mail<br>
</ol>
8 April 2010<br>


Submitted by Gerry Hahn
The English lanquage currently comprises<br>
roughly a millian words.  Discounting new<br>
words that are added every day, and<br>
those occasionally lost to posterity, the<br>
possibility of forming a three-word<br>
combination is therefore a million cubed,<br>
or a quadrillian- that's followed by 216<br>
zeros.<br>
 
The Guardian<br>
21 August 2009

Revision as of 13:53, 8 July 2010

The following Forsooths are from the RSS NEWS June 2010

Labour's betrayal of British workers.
Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created
since 1997 has gone to a foreigner

Immigration was at the centre of the
election campaign today as it emerged
that virtually every extra job created
under Labour has gone to a foreign
worker.

Figures suggested an extraordinary 98.5
per cent of 1.67milion new posts were
taken by immigrants.

The ONS figures show the total number of
people in work in both the private and
the public sector has risen from around
25.7million in 1997 to 27.4milllion at the
end of last year, an increase of 1.67million

But the number of workers born abroad
has increased dramatically by 1.64million
from 1.9million to 3.5 million.

Daily Mail
8 April 2010

The English lanquage currently comprises
roughly a millian words. Discounting new
words that are added every day, and
those occasionally lost to posterity, the
possibility of forming a three-word
combination is therefore a million cubed,
or a quadrillian- that's followed by 216
zeros.

The Guardian
21 August 2009

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