For long considered a last recourse by students, Delhi University’s School of Open Learning (SOL) is becoming first choice for many this admission season. The school has been selling admission forms and prospectus simultaneously with regular colleges from the first day of admission. SOL has sold 10,000 admission forms and prospectus.
Looking at the increasing popularity [...]

Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder do 22 fewer days of work per year than people who do not have the condition, a study says.
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The research, which looked at 7,000 workers in 10 countries, found an average of 3.5% had ADHD.
Writing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Dutch team said workplace screening should be used [...]

People used to caviar will sneer at simple roe. But the huge pay hikes of recent years must come down to earth some day.

If you scan the newspapers today on job prospects and salaries, you can be pardoned for feeling a sense of bemusement. There are pessimists and optimists. The former talk of salary cuts [...]

Students keen on joining programmes offered by foreign universities and institutions operating in India, either directly or in collaboration with an Indian institution, need to be extra careful. For quite some time now, statutory bodies like the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have been asking students to check [...]

From being considered `the beggar of Europe’ 20 years ago with an unemployment rate of 20%, today, Ireland is one of the most thriving economies in the world. In fact, its economic conversion even earned it the name, ‘Celtic Tiger’. The country is, now, a favoured destination for many international companies doing business in Europe, [...]

Do you want to know the locations of the beautiful Mughal palaces in Jodhaa Akbar? Ask the art director, says V. Kumara swamy
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Dramatic impact: The sets designed by Nissar Allana for the plays Begum Bharve (top) and Erendira
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How can film-makers today afford to dream big and give us the likes of a Jodhaa Akbar, [...]

Its that time of the year again. Starting March 2008, final placements kick off at the six Indian Institutes of Management at Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, Indore, Kozhikode and Lucknow. While leading Indian and international companies queue up at the different campuses for some aggressive head hunting, students gear up to take their pick of the [...]

IT companies aren’t sacking people; they are trying their best to hold them back .
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India’s largest information technology company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has handed out the pink slip to 500 people. IBM India is reported to have shown several people the door after having introduced stringent new performance standards. TCS has cut the variable [...]

Students will soon have the option of earning a dual degree in India if IGNOU’s radical proposals get the nod. V. Kumara Swamy reports
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A convergence between the conventional university and open and distance learning (ODL) systems is something that’s been in the pipeline for quite sometime now. Both educationists and policy makers agree that [...]

Organisations across America — and in India — are facing problems attracting and retaining talent
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In December, workers at Palmerston North in New Zealand had running battles with their managers because their call centre jobs had been shipped to the Philippines. There was a bit of bloodshed and much acrimony.
But in the US, where anti-outsourcing once [...]