There is hardly a country in the world that is not attempting to improve its school education. Countries like Canada and Finland, which already have excellent school systems, are still trying to improve. These countries have confidence in their own approach and remain committed to those fundamentals. Like top-notch sportspeople, ... Read More »
Millionaires and billionaires tend to have multiple homes—three or four is average. But those figures are child’s play for a bona fide house collector, who collects property like others amass fine wine. Photo: Lisa Corson for The Wall Street Journal [Source: Wall Street Journal] Read More »
Google’s Chromebook has been particularly successful in the education market — and that’s helped drive its broader software platform, Google for Education. It’s similar to the business offerings Google offers, with access to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and so on, but it also adds the specialized Google Classroom tool that ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Embattled real estate firm Unitech Ltd was today directed by the Supreme Court to deposit Rs 15 crore principal amount by September-end to pay back investors who had bought flats in its Gurgaon project but not got possession on time. “We feel pained,” a bench of Justices Dipak ... Read More »
Google has a few apps and services that are just for teachers and students and they’re providing some new features just in time for the new school year. And there are new VR experiences in the Expedition app so you can take a digital field trip. Google for Education, their ... Read More »
University graduates continue to enjoy higher earnings than their non-graduate peers, but there are signs the gap may soon shrink, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The IFS publishes its results as hundreds of thousands of teenagers receive theirA-level results on Thursday. Record numbers will make the decision ... Read More »
This month, the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 was notified. It intends to route unaccounted money into the financial system, and seize benami properties while prosecuting those involved with such properties. Its objective are: amending the definition of benami transactions, establishing adjudicating authorities and setting up an appellate tribunal ... Read More »
Four coding boot camps, three companies offering other alternative-education offerings, and the global conglomerate General Electric were chosen on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in a new experiment that will allow eight colleges to offer Pell Grants and federal student loans to as many as 1,500 ... Read More »
The volume of real estate investments in Romania reached EUR 359 million in the first six months of this year, three times higher compared to the same period last year. It was one of the highest levels of investment in real estate in the last six years, according to a ... Read More »
China can improve its higher education system by introducing incentives for students and teachers so they take learning more seriously, a Stanford professor says. Under the current system, college students are essentially guaranteed a diploma, offering little motivation to excel. Prashant Loyalka, a center research fellow at the Rural Education ... Read More »
Especially in the U.S. Chinese invested $16.1 billion in overseas real estate in the first half of the year, more than double the amount in the same period last year, real estate consultancy CBRE said on Thursday. The United States remained the most popular globalproperty market for Chinese investors, while ... Read More »
Labour says it would restore grants to help young people in England stay in further and higher education. This would mean a return for education maintenance allowances (EMA) scrapped by the coalition government in 2010. It would also mean reversing the decision to turn maintenance grants for poorer university students ... Read More »
