英语考研阅读精选 阿拉伯国家教育与职业的链接阿拉伯国家未来的繁荣昌盛要靠青年一代，因此政府要确保青年人已经掌握了胜任工作所需的技能。A Linking jobs and education in the Arab world阿拉伯国家教育与职业的链接阿拉伯国家教育与职业的链接April, 2011 | from McKinsey QuarterlyThe Arab world is experiencing unprecedented turmoil. Any evaluation of its root causes would include unemployment for youth between the ages of 15 and 24. More than 25 percent of youth in the Middle East are unemployed, the highest such rate in the world, while North Africa reports about 24 percent. Unemployment among young females is even higher, reaching and exceeding 30 percent across the region.There is wide recognition that if nothing is done, unemployment levels are likely to rise further as a result of a demographic bubble: about one-third of the population is below age 15. As a result, millions of young people will enter the regions workforce over the next ten years.So far, the regions governments havent focused sufficiently on a vital component of the employment picture: how to ensure that the regions young people have the right skills for the jobs being created. To do so, it will be necessary to orient education directly to work opportunitiesfull- or part-time or even self-employment. There is even less focus on how to encourage the private sector (both employers and education providers) to play a role complementary to that of the government in addressing the regions pressing needs. A new report based on research by McKinsey, Education for employment: Realizing Arab youth potential, highlights the dramatic gaps in education and employment across the region and provides a private sectorbased road map for closing them. The report was commissioned by the International Finance Corporation and the Islamic Development Bank. We base our findings on more than 200 interviews with government officials, employers, education providers, investors, and nonprofit organizations in nine countries and on proprietary surveys of 1,500 employers and 1,500 young people in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.Elsewhere in the world, the private sector, both education providers and employers, has played a critical role in providing opportunities for young people. Given the right conditions, it can play the same part in the Arab world as well. The report therefore highlights these messages: demand is substantial for private-sector involvement but supply is limited; vocational education and training, private universities, and work-readiness programs are the major categories of private investment opportunities; and several critical enablers of private participation are missing, such as rigorous standards to ensure that students are taught the right skills. Surveyed private employers tell us that only one third of new graduate employees are ready for the workplace when hired. Consequently, more than half of all employers provide substantial training for their new hires, to ensure work readiness. On the other side, only one-third of the surveyed young people believed that their education prepared them adequately for the job market, expressing strong doubts about the quality and relevance of their programs.The challenge is big, significant, and urgent. Action is required now: unless all stakeholders come together and embark on ambitious plans to address the employment gaps jointly, the Arab worlds young people face potentially dire consequences. (494words)差别收费-互联网下载服务的未来 在过去，美国的互联网用户仅需缴纳一定的费用就可在网上自由下载各类资源。而如今， 这种自由却受到了限制。用户即使缴纳了相应的费用，也不得不接受每月下载流量的限制。THOUGH they pay way too much for their web connections and put up with wimpy broadband speeds compared with people elsewhere, the vast majority of Americans have at least been able to download all they can eat from the internet for a fixed monthly fee. Throughout North America, internet service providers (ISPs) have tended to shy away from the kind of monthly download limits and metered pricing widely accepted elsewhere. On May 2nd, however, the countrys era of carefree internet surfing began finally to draw to a close. One of the leading carriers, AT your public services (schools, police, sanitation, defense, scientific research) will almost certainly be lower. Paying for old people, covering rising health-care costs, repairing dilapidated roads and servicing government pensions and the huge federal debt will squeeze take-home pay. Is there any hope for economic gains? Well, yes and from a surprising source. Housing. Say what? Almost everyone considers the housing collapse a disaster, and it is. Since 2007, roughly 8 million homes have gone into foreclosure. Housing prices are down about 33 percent from their 2006 peaks. Theyre still falling, albeit at a slower pace. In some cities, theyre at or below 2000 levels. Home sales are stunted, and construction is a quarter of its previous peak. Housings implosion retards the economic recovery. But housings troubles may have a silver lining. If youre a homeowner, the steep fall in prices is calamitous. But if youre a future b