Idiotic, hair-splitting questions pertaining to nothing, insufficient training, profit-driven motives on the part of the testing companies, and test results that simply reveal the income and education level of the parents – For this we need to pay hundreds of millions of dollars and waste 10-45 days of classroom time each year to administer them?
Last year's Clinton Global Initiative featured Richard Branson devoting Virgin's airline and train profits to research on renewable energy.
On the other hand, Japan's national GDP actually grew in sync with bullet train profits since the inception of the revolutionary Shinkansen.
On her return to Ghana, she used this training and profits from her company to provide other women with money- and business-management skills.
The questionnaire consisted of 14 closed questions, including occupational routine, training, professional profits, income status, and self-perception of professional career.
A major accident last year forced Railtrack, the owner of tracks, signals and stations, to embark on emergency track repairs that slowed train services so much that many passengers turned away from trains, damaging profits for private companies like Richard Branson's Virgin trains, which own operating franchises.
The only real alternative to public schools for career training is profit-making colleges and trade schools, many of which have been harshly criticized for sending students deeply into debt without improving their job prospects.
While train operator profits have fallen in real terms from £270m in 1997-98 to £250m in 2012-13, representing a 3% margin, over the same period money paid by operators to government to reinvest in services has increased fivefold from £390m to £1.96bn.
There are tax breaks to encourage corporations to provide more training and profit sharing plans.
She wants to reward corporations and investors with tax incentives to encourage long-term investment, worker training and profit sharing with employees.
