Employers want to hire people with 21st-century skills and they can’t find enough qualified candidates. The problem, says Charles Fadel, Founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign, is that our education system “is biased for college entrance requirements via tests such as the SAT which are partially obsolete, and never ... Read More »
Microsoft wants kids playing Minecraft in class, and it’s hoping that schools will not just let them, but support them. It’s launching a version of Minecraft today called Minecraft: Education Edition that includes some classroom tools and a way to roll out accounts to every student in a class or ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that voters had a fundamental right to know about the educational background of people contesting polls and that election of a candidate could be set aside for making false declaration on educational qualifications in the nomination paper. The ruling came when a ... Read More »
Alibaba Group, the massive Chinese online retailer, posted stronger than expected fiscal second quarter earnings on Wednesday morning and the stock is popping. The Chinese online retailer posted earnings of 5.26 Chinese yuan per share against analyst expectations of 4.69 Chinese yuan. Revenue came in at 34.3 billion yuan against the 33.9 ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s adult children have spent a decade doing business with politically connected foreign firms—a role that will present potential conflicts of interest whether he wins on Nov. 8 or continues to pursue politics if he loses. Those whom Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have worked with ... Read More »
Tamil Nadu dropped six places to rank 18, the lowest among developed States, in the business reforms ranking for 2016 released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the World Bank on Monday. The ranking comes as a setback to Tamil Nadu which is the most industrialised ... Read More »
India’s global rank in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business ranking came in at 130 out of 190 countries. It has moved up only one notch since last year. To that extent this progress is disappointing. The improvement in this global rank has been a rallying cry of the government, ... Read More »
In 2011, Nicholas Carr summed up Facebook’s business model like this: “The desire for privacy is strong; vanity is stronger.” Carr spent the past dozen or so years making similar proclamations of high-tech heresy, questioning and often criticizing Silicon Valley billionaires and their armies of engineers and programmers for casting ... Read More »
Publishers are having second thoughts about using content-recommendation services, an industry dominated by two Israeli companies, The New York Times reported. The recommendations, which typically appear at the bottom of a story touting other articles from “around the web,” recently stopped appearing in Slate and The New Yorker amid concerns ... Read More »
It said that advances in the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, energy storage and quantum computing among others technologies “may transform the lives of everyone”. “These transformations wrought by these and other technological developments may mean that some businesses and products could become obsolete relatively quickly. “Successor businesses ... Read More »
The government on Monday evening said it would soon notify the real estate rules which would see property registration fees being halved and developers being required to compensate allottees in case of delays in handing over the property. “Real estate developers will have to furnish additional information regarding the ongoing ... Read More »
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 31: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has notified the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) (General) Rules, 2016, for the five Union Territories without Legislature — Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh, an official statement said on ... Read More »
