The Program for Creative Writing offered by I–owa University – better known as the Writers’ Workshop is the best of its kind, says Abimanyu Nagarajan Bordered by the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux on the west lies the Hawkeye state, better known as Iowa. The area is often referred [...]

Elementary Education ● School teaching isn’t what it used to be, says Deepali Singh. It’s a lifelong learning experience with long vacations and decent money It’s that time of the year when career decisions are sealed. In the flurry of admission into business schools and other fancy professional courses, one noble field is usually bypassed. [...]

hospitality plus The hospitality industry has never been so inviting. A prospective tourism boom and the Commonwealth Games have created a whole gamut of jobs,. ……. Don’t lose heart if you haven’t cleared the joint entrance examinations. There are numerous other avenues that could lead you to success. Not securing a seat for engineering or [...]

Introduction:- Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format. Pertinent, up-to-date, confidential patient information is converted to a written text document by a medical transcriptionist (MT). This text may be [...]

Institute Approval :- What’s more important — a degree from an approved institute or a job-ready course? Smitha Verma seeks an answer Shubhro Bhattacharya has a piece of advice for students queuing up for B-schools — if the institute imparts quality education, little else matters. “Go for it if you see it has a good [...]

Angeli Qwatra’s professional credentials are strikingly different. She is a rescue management expert with national and international experience in  the field of emergency aid measures. She is the founder head of Philathrope, an  NGO empowering communities, individuals and corporates working with Unesco on an evaluation study of an AIDS prevention programme, I was drawn closer [...]

THE healthcare industry in India earns revenue accounting for 5.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Experts in the sector predict an increase in revenue in the coming five years to almost 6.2% of the GDP. ………… Healthcare has emerged as one of the largest service sectors in India and currently employment opportunities are provided [...]

A US university will soon be offering a four-year undergraduate programme in video games: ……… The University of California (UC), Irvine, has long been known for pre-eminence in engineering, medicine and business. But now the university is embracing a new discipline — video games. This fall UC Irvine established the Center for Computer Games and [...]

With the healthcare industry witnessing remarkable growth in the last few years, the concept of healthcare has gone beyond hospitals. Instead, it is now related to a gamut of quality services linked to hospitals. ……. This in turn has increased the demand for quality healthcare professionals in India. Today, healthcare is the third largest service [...]

E-publishing is an area of outsourcing that is growing by leaps and bounds Twenty-six year old Samarpan Nawn has his nose to the grindstone. A statistician with a foreign bank in Mumbai, he is preparing for the civil service exam. But Nawn hasn’t joined a coaching centre. “My laptop is my tutor,” smiles the ex-student [...]