Two teenage boys found employment at a grocery store in Omaha, Nebraska. The older boy, from a poor family devastated by the Great Depression, bred and sold hamsters for spare change. The younger boy, grandson of the store owner, had been delaying college and working odd jobs, like selling chewing gum and coke bottles door […]
Read more >If I had to pick one thing that makes the biggest difference in the quality of any person’s education, the quality of their life, really, it would be reading. And I’m not really talking about basic literacy—not about the ability to read—I’m talking about reading for pleasure, to satisfy curiosities, to understand how people work […]
Read more >It is often understood that successful careers are about higher designations, bigger organisations and fatter wallet possibilities. While some of these may indeed be a cocktail of rewards, careers are not just these alone. In my own experience as a career coach, I have been appalled to see how widespread the disillusionment with organisations, their […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: The AkhilBharatiyaVidyarthiParishad (ABVP), which swept the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections for three years, will focus on the nationalism debate, along with issues concerning students, such as hostel scarcity, for this year’s elections. “ABVP was the only student organisation that stood against anti-national activities happening in various campuses.” “The February 9 event […]
Read more >Officials said that one school girl offered a dealer photographs of herself in exchange for drugs. Hyderabad: At least 20 top schools and 16 colleges in Hyderabad have been asked by the government to take urgent steps to check the use of drugs including LSD among students, some of whom are as young as 13. […]
Read more >A teacher who faces these pressures tells The Indian Express that the murder of a teacher at a Nangloi school, who was stabbed by two students Monday, makes him fear for his life. In several government schools across Delhi, teachers say they don’t just deal with crowded classrooms and lack of basic amenities, while managing […]
Read more >Kochi: A student from Kozhikode, ShafilMaheen N, got 4th rank in the highly competitive IIT-JEE (Advanced) engineering test. This is the first time a student from the state has made it to the top five in the engineering test, the results of which were announced Sunday. As many as 1.74 lakh students registered for JEE […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: A video of a child being scolded and slapped during a math lesson has gone viral on social media, invoking outrage from several quarters, including cricket captain ViratKohli. Kohli was among the first ones to post the video on Instagram and wrote: “The fact that the pain and anger of the child is […]
Read more >What pleasure would any father have in trying to run and reach the finishing line before his son on a playground? I have tried running several times with my son and never ever have had the desire to win over him, who is doing his very best to win and learning to run fast. What […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: A national network of doctors committed to promoting rational and ethical healthcare on Friday criticised the bill drafted by the NITI Aayog and its report on restructuring regulation of medical education and the medical profession, saying it was merely championing “accelerated privatisation and commercialisation of medical education”. Back To SOLE Continue reading
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