Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Monday 14 May 2012

Stay connected in the air

Apparently it has been going on for a decade, but for the vast majority of travellers once you are airborne the world of the internet is a no go. However that is about to change.

UK telecommunications firm Immarsat and US giant Honeywell are developing new satellite links to improve connectivity while in the air, ensuring people can stay in touch on the go and in the air.

For the full story go to BBC Technology news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18021468

Don't lie on your CV

Looks like Yahoo's Scott Thompson has become one of the biggest ever casualties of lying on his CV. He apparently put down he had studied Computer Science at a college in 1979, but back then the course didn't exist.

Thompson is CEO at Yahoo and only joined in September 2011, after a spell at PayPal.

It is worth noticing that in The Apprentice UK, eventual winner Lee McQueen was less than honest over his own college days when he had put down he was at college for 3 years when in fact he had only started the course and left after a matter of weeks.

Despite this he was still hired, something that perhaps shows a rare lack of judgement by Lord Sugar. Embelishments are probably part of the game, but making things up or taking credit for other peoples work should not be rewarded at all.

I will look to see if I can find some other high profile cases of people being undone by their own CV.

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