RIGA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Latvia s investment climate improved somewhat in 2020, a new survey of foreign entrepreneurs doing business in the Baltic country showed on Friday. According to the FICIL Sentiment Index 2020, released on Friday by the Foreign Investors Council in Latvia (FICIL), foreign entrepreneurs assessment of Latvia s investment climate on a five-point scale improved to 2.7 points in 2020 from 2.6 points in 2019 and 2.5 points in 2018. One explanation for such an assessment might be the fact that not all investors performance results have worsened in the COVID-19 pandemic, said Arnis Sauka, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) and author of the FICIL survey.
The Gateway Group has signed up with the Swedish Edtech company Dugga Assessment to incorporate Dugga - the state-of-the-art digital assessment platform to facilitate the school’s teaching and learning process.
Dugga is platform (PC, Mac, Chromebooks, iPads) and OS-independent and is used to conduct digital tests, exams, home exams, digital lessons, assignments and other types of assessment in education.
‘Dugga is pleased to work in partnership with Gateway, a leading educational organization in Sri Lanka‘, states Dr. Claudia Rademaker and Dr. Patrik Nilsson, founders and VPs of Dugga Assessment. Dugga is currently used in more than 100 countries and enables remote assessment for the continuation of education worldwide during school closures because of Covid-19. ‘Dugga offers an easy-to-use nevertheless advanced test platform and has for some time been the fastest growing test platform in digital examinations. Therefore, as a forward-thinking organisation that has adapted w
Wine Entrepreneurship Master Class Offered Online in Spring 2021
Mastering strategic thinking and planning for wine business entrepreneurs and principals January 26, 2021
Rohnert Park, CA - Sonoma State University Wine Business Institute’s Wine Entrepreneurship program will be offered online in Spring 2021. The 9-week master class exposes participants to frameworks to develop or reposition a vineyard and winery, as well as different models for profitability. While traditionally thought of as a program for new entities, the master class also provides the time and guided focus for principals wishing to revisit and revise their existing plans. The program is led by expert strategist and entrepreneur extraordinaire Dr. Anisya Fritz, proprietor of Lynmar Estate, a family-owned producer of ultra-premium Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and published author of numerous articles on competitive strategy and international entrepreneurship in leading journals such as the Harvard Bus
Internationalisation goal set to be missed, says report
The goal set for 2025 of ensuring that at least one in every four Swedish students has studied abroad by the time they graduate will be missed unless the Ministry of Education and Research and higher education institutions take stronger action, a new report says.
Commissioned by Swedish International Students and Alumni (SISA) and Swedes Worldwide (SVIV), which between them serve 660,000 Swedes working, studying and living abroad, the report says the government’s internationalisation report, published in 2018, has been left to gather dust and is not being acted upon by the ministry of most higher education institutions.