Amin, 18, became a refugee when his family fled Syria for Lebanon five years ago. He has not set foot in school since. With his father unable to get legal status or work, responsibility for supporting the family of seven fell to Amin. A seventh grader when he left his ... Read More »
IN THE technology editor’s office: two stickers depicting passenger jets, attached lopsidedly to the window by a previous inhabitant of the room about 20 years ago, perhaps while tipsy. In the business editor’s office: a heap of notebooks on the floor. In the corridors: modern art bought long ago, some ... Read More »
Women who tried to get an abortion but were denied one were more likely to experience anxiety and to report lower self-esteem and life satisfaction than women who sought and received an abortion, found a new study. The women who did and did not terminate their pregnancy had similar levels ... Read More »
A group led by Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, was hit with $5.2 million in fines for blatant election law violations in Ohio in 2008. When All Children Matter didn’t pay that fine, late fees added another $91,000. Now, Democratic senators are pushing for her to pay before ... Read More »
The absence of a strong regulatory framework remains a key challenge to ensuring quality of ECE programmes nationwide Across India, a lack of effective regulation appears to be eroding the overall quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE). ECE holds the key to every child’s lifelong development, as neuroscience research has ... Read More »
At a recent roundtable on the future of employment in India, each participant was asked to bring an object that represented their outlook on the subject. To everyone’s amazement, a renowned JNU economist brought a knife. He explained that if India continues to witness its historical pattern of employment, our ... Read More »
General Electric Co (GE.N) said on Wednesday it would sell its $3 billion industrial solutions business, which makes electrical equipment, as part of a push to focus on its core businesses. The industrial conglomerate expects to raise about $4 billion from the sale of the unit as well as the ... Read More »
The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Venture capital may be the hot, sexy funding route that helps a few businesses and grabs a lot of headlines every year. But it turns out another type of funding works ... Read More »
Bengaluru: Wipro Ltd has split its India and Middle East business, which accounts for 10% of its revenue, into two separate divisions under new heads and merged one of the divisions focussed on automation platforms with the larger technology unit, as chief executive Abidali Neemuchwala looks to put the company ... Read More »
London’s lead in financial services technology risks being blunted by bureaucratic new migration rules, according to business leaders cited by the latest House of Lords report on leaving the European Union. Peers conclude that the fast-growing sector is one of a number of world-beating industries at risk if London loses ... Read More »
President-elect Donald Trump struck a conciliatory tone at a much-anticipated meeting with some of his most prominent opponents Wednesday, offering to work with Silicon Valley executives to foster innovation and support fairer trade deals. Part public spectacle, part private discussion, the 90-minute meeting in Trump Tower in New York marked ... Read More »
On November 2, the Chicago Cubs made sports history by winning the World Series baseball championship in Cleveland for the first time in 108 years. The victory was partly attributed to their use of big data: a set of people on their computers going over skeletal reconstructions of the players’ ... Read More »
