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What Goes Into Running A Successful Ski Hill?

With the winter in full swing, Canadians are hitting the slopes to carve some powder, take in some fresh air and maybe cap it off with hot cocoa or cold beer. You might wonder, though, when you’re sway on the chairlift making your way up to the top of the mountain, how ski hills run successfully. To a certain extent, owners of ski hills rely on Mother Nature for a bit of good fortune – news that a hill has received a dump of fresh snow is sure to boost ticket sales.

But there’s more than just environmental luck at play. The whole operation seems to run so smoothly, from the chairlift attendants to the first responders, instructors, slope groomers and chalet workers – and that’s because a successful ski hill understands that there are multiple moving parts that go into making someone’s experience a positive one. And in order to fund it all, they hedge against bad weather by offering a big price break on season tickets. [Read more…] about What Goes Into Running A Successful Ski Hill?

Let Us Take a Look at Trends Changing Higher Education Globally

The field of education has expanded over the last few years. Owing to the influences of technology and the broader scope offered by the internet, education has seen quite a bit of change over the past years. As it adapts and evolves, so do the students, and subsequently does the world. Every bit of change is significant, and it is also important for educational institutions, as well as students, to stay abreast with the latest trends in education around the world.

Beyond the classroom

Even a decade ago, the idea of classroom being non-essential for education was something most people would not have accepted. But over the past few years, the importance of classroom has gradually reduced and now, any place can be a classroom, if there is a desire to learn. Not only distance education courses, even regular courses have started laying greater emphasis on education than the space of education. [Read more…] about Let Us Take a Look at Trends Changing Higher Education Globally

How Betterment Design Took Over Robo-Advising

If you’re unfamiliar, Betterment is an automated investment service that takes users’ funds and puts them into uber-diversified ETFs and mutual funds, representing equities all over the globe. The user decides what percentage of the portfolio will be allocated to stocks and to bonds, and also identifies a risk-tolerance level – the highest risk tolerance chosen for the chance at largest growth in the shortest amount of time. Everything else is up to Betterment’s algorithms – buying, selling, tax-loss harvesting, allocation rebalancing, etc. It has been called the “set it and forget it” model of investing. [Read more…] about How Betterment Design Took Over Robo-Advising

The Business of Higher Education in the U.S. for Overseas Students

Dubbed as the land of opportunity, the United States of America continues to attract people from all over the world. These folks not only want to visit the U.S. for a vacation or to find work but many also want to pursue higher education in some of the country’s prestigious colleges and universities.

A great number of foreign students truly believe in the quality of higher education provided in the U.S. Statistics show that the number of these foreign students continues to grow as evident in the visa approvals. For example, the period 2001 to 2012 saw F-1 visas in U.S. colleges and universities increasing from 110,000 in the year 2001 to 524,000 in 2012. Most of these foreigners are pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as English language training. A huge percentage of them were from China and Saudi Arabia. [Read more…] about The Business of Higher Education in the U.S. for Overseas Students