The on demand economy In 1998, HBR published an article titled “Dawn of the E-lance economy” by Thomas W. Malone and Robert J. Laubacher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The authors look at how a new kind of organisation could form the basis of a new kind of economy – an e-lance economy – […]
The ultimate source of wealth – Dykes Charles, Foundation for Economic Education www.fee.org (August 1, 1985) What, then is ‘wealth’? For the economist, wealth is anything having economic value measurable in price. For most people, wealth means great amounts of worldly possessions. For nearly everyone, wealth is synonymous with money. From the perspective of history, […]
Big brother is watching you at the workplace Employee monitoring is often in conflict with employees’ privacy. Monitoring in the workplace may put employers and employees at odds with each other because both sides are trying to protect their own personal interests. Employees want to maintain privacy while employers want to ensure that company resources […]
The future of work: 10 skills you will need to be successful – Institute for the future (2020). “Future work skills : 2020”Ten skills for the future workforce: Sense making : ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed Social intelligence: ability to connect with others in a deep and […]
The threat of a jobless world – Frey Thomas (July 27th, 2012) People are seriously worried. I’ve been in a number of conversations recently where people are very worried about our coming era of automation where fewer and fewer jobs will be left for people to do. A few months ago I predicted that over […]
This past Sunday, the largest annual sporting event took place in Glendale, Arizona, the host city of Super Bowl XLIX, or Super Bowl 49 – also called the the championship game of the National Football League (NFL). This year’s Super Bowl turned out to be a classic between the New England Patriots and last year’s […]
A total of 1,24,434 candidates registered for Paper II (meant for secondary school teachers), out of which only 7,078 students cleared the test. Candidates in the English medium performed the worst with a disappointing pass percentage of 2.23, followed by Urdu medium with 3.23, and Marathi medium with 5.9 pass percentage. The abysmal plight of […]
The situation was similar,last year,when the test was conducted for the first time. As the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in Chandigarh,Panchkula and Mohali on Tuesday,the number of candidates qualifying in the test continued to be low this year as well. Of the total […]
The poor results of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test,which were declared last week,have raised many an eyebrow in the citys education circles. The poor results of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET),which were declared last week,have raised many an eyebrow in the citys education circles. Only 14 per cent of the candidates,who appeared for the […]
A division bench of Justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and M V Muralidaran referred to Article 30 of the Constitution which confers right to religious minorities to establish and administer educational institutions The Madras High Court has ruled that the order of the governments of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry making it mandatory for aspirants to clear […]
