April 11th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
Recently there was a very high profile case about privacy issues related to Facebook. The Department of Justice in Maryland has asked for passwords from a number of prospective employees to their social networking profiles. Based on the profiles the recruitments was done by the Department. Facebook acted swiftly and quickly came with an advisory [...]
April 7th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
While the costs of education are rising for everyone forcing some of the students to adapt drastic measures to pay their fee, there are some colleges and universities that are sitting on piles of cash. Some of the top colleges have so much of endowment money that they easily surpass most of the African economies. [...]
March 9th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
The importance of using social networking and Internet in developing our career can’t be denied. As the world is moving towards virtual platforms more and more transactions are being carried out in the digital world. The perils of not using LinkedIn can’t be stressed enough. But there is one more social networking site that only [...]
March 4th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
Recently the term FDI was very much in news. The incumbent government announced ‘FDI in retail’, a long-awaited decision many would say. Initially there were few murmurs but suddenly it all turned into a loud roar and all the opposition parties joined hands to oppose this move of the government. Even its own ally the [...]
February 19th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
Kota in Rajasthan is called the JEE Capital of India for pretty obvious reasons. By some rough estimates nearly 60% of Kota’s economy is supported by students who come to this town to prepare for engineering entrance examinations. On the other hand New Delhi owing to its sprawling coaching centres, the presence of Delhi University [...]
February 4th, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
Probably the next big bubble is going to be the higher education in India. The bubble in common economic is terms is said to be an asset that is usually trading on a value much higher than its real worth. It was true in the case of tech bubble or the housing bubble during the [...]
February 1st, 2012 § Comments Off § permalink
Financial Times recently released a ranking for Global MBA institutes. It considered B-Schools from over the world. India with its “India Shining” and emerging economy tag should have been the poster boy of this ranking. But Alas! Only two B-schools from India, IIM Ahmadabad and Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad find mention in the [...]
December 9th, 2011 § Comments Off § permalink
Monster Employment Index Data recently released its list of the best five and the worst five industries based on the percentage growth of job opportunities in the respective industries. For the ease of our users we are providing the list in a tabular form below. Some of them are no surprise at all. IT industry [...]