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to the Web site for the Migrant Education Resource Center (MERC)! The MERC Web site provides migrant educators with resources and information to create a community of practitioners for the tasks of program administration and implementation. All the site components were created for a common point of focus for documents and training pertinent to the MEP and a mechanism for problem-solving and professional development.

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The Center for Human Services (CHS) of Bethesda, Maryland, is the home of the Migrant Education Resource Center. With over 40 years’ experience assisting government and private sector clients to design, operate, and evaluate programs, CHS has wide-ranging expertise in a number of areas critical to the successful development and implementation of MERC.



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Teacher exchange knits migrant kids to culture (The Salinas Californian)
Elsa De Gyves Gomez represented her native Oaxaca, Mexico, during an event Tuesday night honoring students and teachers in The Monterey County Office of Education's Bi-national Teacher Exchange Program.


Temporary Visas for Skilled Migrants To Australia Becomes Popular (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Australia is importing more skilled workers for its shortage of manpower requirements, with the 457- visas issued in the past year for temporary skilled migrants rising 27 percent. The Australian government decided to raise the salary for skilled migrant workers holding temporary visas.


Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report (AllAfrica.com)
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience


Outdated Immigration Policy Vs. US Economic Health (Scoop.co.nz)
* Washington must update immigration policy to allow more skilled immigrants to work in the U.S. In 2007, Microsoft opened a software development center in Vancouver, Canada, in part to have access to highly skilled workers who are presently prohibited from residing in the United States.


Professional excellence (San Marcos Daily Record)
Six San Marcos women entrepreneurs will be honored at a special event on Saturday for being the most dynamic and inspiring business leaders in the city for 2008.


Cosgrove: Speech to Immigration Law 08 Conference (Scoop.co.nz)
Janice Taylor, from Lexis Nexis who organised this event; Roger Haines QC, Deputy Chair of the Refugee Status Appeal Authority; my Parliamentary colleague the Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, and former Labour Minister, the Hon Matt Robson; Allan Mackey, the Chair of the Refugee Status Appeal Authority; the Chief Ombudsman Beverly Wakem; Professor Richard Bedford from the University of Waikato; special ...


DOMESTIC SUES EX–AMBASSADOR (The Filipino Express)
NEW YORK - Marichu Suarez Baoanan, a Filipina domestic worker has filed a civil lawsuit against Lauro Baja, Jr., a former United Nations Ambassador to the Philippines and his family on 15 counts that include trafficking, forced labor, peonage, and slavery.


Experts say Turkey needs to eliminate prejudice against refugees (Zaman Online)
"A refugee is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion, who is outside of his or her country of nationality and unable or unwilling to return.


IIT Bombay wins UNESCO Innovation Award (New Kerala)
Mumbai, Jul 16: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has awarded IIT Bombay (IITB) with the coveted Asia Pacific's ICT in Education Innovation Award 2007-08 in the Non-formal Educator Category.


In Eritrea, youth say frustrated by long service (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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The Migrant Education Resource Center (MERC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Migrant Education under Contract Number ED-06-CO-0094.

This website is developed by the Center for Human Services (CHS) and its sub-contractors Social & Health Services, Ltd., EnCompass, and Support Services International (SSI).

Last Modified: 5/5/2008