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While a prestigious university could help you cross a border, could your Facebook friends?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and work experience are of more use. Harvard Business School, Accenture and HSBC listed on your curriculum open doors. Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest company with revenues of $413 billion and 2.1 million ... Monday, 06 September 2010 -
The long, hard road of self-publishing a web comic
Category: Blog/Analysis
... tells you the flip-side of the humour. Of people who convert university, or high-school, hobbies into full-time work. None of these comics charge for access and rely on hosting advertising and selling ... Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
The process of services commoditisation is happening faster than that for manufacturing
Category: Blog/Analysis
... universities and schools can be done quickly even if the talent has to be imported. Those that don’t will be left every further behind. ... Thursday, 24 June 2010 -
Poverty and the capacity for technology to bring Change
Category: Blog/Analysis
... quoted stories is how fishermen use their mobile phones to find the best markets for their catch. “I hate hearing my research quoted incorrectly back to me,” says Dr Reuben Abraham of the Indian School ... Thursday, 22 April 2010 -
Reducing risk for the poorest of the unbanked and uninsured
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Jacques Toureille, general manager at the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance. The occasion is the Doing Good and Doing Well conference hosted by IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. “The problem ... Thursday, 15 April 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
... bookings and flight plans. It has also caused millions of people to drag out their high-school atlases and ask, “So where exactly in Africa is South Africa.” And, they’re also discovering that there ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
... sharing any characteristics in common is remote. Some of them will certainly have been to all the best schools and had all the best doors opened to them. Some will have been lucky first-time when they ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
... When employers then offer only low-skilled, low-wage jobs - or no work at all - it is a consequence of an education system that fails to prepare school leavers for useful work. The blame for miserable ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to quaff home-grown tomatoes and other sprouts. Schools have been encouraged to get children to grow vegetables. Indeed. What is the world coming to when wealthy nations promote enforced child agricultural ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
Category: Blog/Analysis
... He refused. Even during his trial, he continued to distribute. His lawyer, Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, wanted to argue Fair Use; that Tenenbaum should have the right to distribute ... Thursday, 29 October 2009 -
Picking winners has unintended consequences, sometimes they cause gas
Category: Blog/Analysis
... David MacKay, a Cambridge professor of physics, has considered the absolute potential of the renewable energy around us to do meaningful work (like power your car to take the kids to school). He has ... Thursday, 06 August 2009 -
The responsibility that comes with social grants
Category: Blog/Analysis
... combined responsibility with benefits. Money is paid directly to mothers for up to three children, on condition each regularly attends school. The cash is paid out directly into digital debit cards ... Thursday, 23 July 2009 -
The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
Category: Blog/Analysis
... people the tremors. Banking is no less a complex industry than are hospitals, schools, factories, and farms. Where ever large groups of people are managed in order to produce a product, or serve a customer, ... Tuesday, 09 June 2009 -
YouTube can be a Star
Category: Blog/Analysis
... fascinated by what appeared to be an evolving story. Bree was home-schooled and her parents belonged to a never-explained occult group. Her peculiar relationship with her best friend, Daniel, seemed ... Thursday, 26 March 2009 -
Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
Category: Blog/Analysis
... 24%; sufficient to build 15 shiny new 750-bed hospitals a year. Or we could increase the education budget by 14% and build over 800 new schools a year. Or we could put some of the money towards paying ... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 -
Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
Category: Blog/Analysis
... you have such a hard time throwing away unwanted gifts. In much the same way, it shouldn't matter to governments whether they own schools, hospitals or power companies. What governments want is a ... Tuesday, 23 September 2008 -
How to cross a river...
Category: Blog/Analysis
... as a means of assistance to the communities living up and along the Tugela River. According to Nonkululeko Mbatha, spokesperson for the Department of Transport, there are some 250 schools that need bridges ... Saturday, 16 August 2008 -
South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in bouts of terrorism (like the killing of 334 hostages – including 186 children – by Chechen rebels at a Beslan school in 2004). Along the way, Russia strong-armed their position in the UN ... Saturday, 09 August 2008 -
Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
Category: Blog/Analysis
... has its consequence. The Zimbabwe dollar is now worth around Z$70 million to the US dollar and all prices double, on average, every month. If you're a school teacher on a fixed salary then each month ... Saturday, 28 June 2008 -
Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
Category: Blog/Analysis
... correctly. Such neglect is visible throughout the South African economy; most obviously in public schools, public health, and public electricity. Mining companies have announced major retrenchments. ... Saturday, 10 May 2008
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