Almost half of today’s youth believe their jobs could be gone in the next 10 years, but young people living in middle-income economies say they’re ready to make the jump into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The youth of Brazil, India and South Africa lead the world as the most confident emerging workforce, followed by China […]
Education is the process of enculturation of the young to be meaningful to self and to the layers of community roles. Expectedly, education has countless dimensions and education is too omnipotent and omnipresent to be the sole responsibility of a single social institution. Education of children is shared among a number of social units and […]
More than 30 Google employees have joined a petition protesting the company’s plans to build a search engine that complies with China’s online censorship regime. An employee-led backlash against the project has been churning for months at the company, but Tuesday’s petition marks the first time workers at Google have used their names in a […]
A court in Japan’s capital has denied ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s latest request for bail, made more than two months after his arrest. The decision by the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday came a day after the 64-year-old pledged – among others – to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, give up his passport […]
The following listing presents a broad appraisal of the current state of school education system: The cost of education has spiraled way beyond tuition fees. In fact, school fees are often only around 20-25% of the total cost of education to parents. Are schools reduced to being fringe players in the ‘business of schooling’? If […]
MUMBAI: Ten months after the board of ICICI Bank declared it reposed “full faith and confidence” + in Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO at the time, and “there was no question of…nepotism, favouritism or quid pro quo”, it decided to terminate her services with retrospective effect. It asked her to repay over Rs 10 crore […]
