On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 131, the second bill of the two-part California Dream Act, allowing undocumented immigrant students to apply for state-funded financial aid for college, the Huffington Post reports. In July, Brown signed AB 130, making funding from private sources available to undocumented students. With Saturday’s signing of AB 131, the California Dream Act passed in its entirety, granting undocumented students access to public and private funding for college…
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Engineering graduates ‘taking unskilled jobs’
Nearly a quarter of UK engineering graduates are working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work such as waiting and shop work, a report suggests, reports BBC News. The study says it is “not easy or automatic” for qualified engineers to find related employment in the UK. Employers and industry leaders have repeatedly raised concerns about a lack of good quality science and engineering graduates…
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