Election-Eve Political Scene
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The last four years have been years of great disappointment for the toiling millions of the country. These have been years showing the failure of the Central Government to fulfill the pledges given to the people. The policies pursued by the Central Government have been influenced by the dictates of the World Bank. Removal of [...]
Tribute to Harkishan Singh Surjeet
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In the afternoon of August 1, 2008 passed away in NOIDA’s Metro Hospital, former CPM General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, after a prolonged illness. Since he relinquished the post of party General Secretary in 2005 he had been ailing and due to ill-health and advanced age could not meaningfully contribute towards shaping the course [...]
Can We Fail Any Lower?
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The whole drama of the confidence-seeking vote in Parliament on the nuclear deal reminded me of what transpired during the 2000 US Presidential election between Gore and Bush. During the counting, the votes cast in the State of Florida had assumed decisiveness for victory. Gore wanted all the votes to be recounted as a short [...]
Bridging the Divide in J&K
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The all-party meeting called by the UPA Government to tackle the Jammu unrest and bridge the J&K divide was indeed overdue. While it is true that differences did surface between the BJP, which projected the feelings of the agitators in jammu demanding immediate restoration of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), and [...]
The Conciliatory Revolutionary
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On October 2, 2006, the thought of writing a novel based on the life of CPM stalwart Harkishan Singh Surjeet began to germinate in my mind. The idea took me to Surjeet’s residence where I sat with him and other members of his family in the verandah of his spacious Delhi home. We began talking [...]
Students who cheated their way into business school will be expelled
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Thousands of business-school students in Britain and abroad are being investigated for cheating. In the latest scandal to hit the worldwide entry test for business schools, the GMAT, up to 6,000 prospective students may have their scores cancelled after buying questions from a rogue website run by a Chinese criminal gang.
The aspiring executives paid the [...]
Four Reasons Textbook Costs Will Drop
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Textbook prices, which have nearly tripled in the past 20 years, may finally start to decline thanks to some new laws, technology, and upstart companies. Undergraduates who take advantage of the new alternatives could easily slash their textbook costs in half this coming academic year.
That means the typical student could save more than $300. “We’re [...]
Students Make Costly Mistakes With Financial Aid
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One woman used her student loan to make a down payment on a car. Another student charged her entire family’s new cellphones to her new credit card, at the request of her father. Other students overspent their aid at the beginning of the semester and had to get meals from the local food pantry charity [...]
Nussbaum Center Uncg Launch New Program
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The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship and UNC-Greensboro’s Bryan School of Business and Economics will partner on a new program to offer more assistance to entrepreneurs from students.
The Entrepreneur Assistance Support and Education program will use master’s-level interns in marketing and accounting who will work with clients of the Nussbaum business incubator. There are currently [...]
Way Too Cool For School Try Virtual Learning
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Research suggests distance education can outperform traditional classroom study. For a growing number of students, going off to class doesn’t mean sitting down at a desk in a schoolroom or lecture theatre. It takes place in the virtual world of Second Life, where school’s in at an hour that suits you - and you can [...]
