Shutterstock Lisa Mundy, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and George Patton, University of Melbourne Children aged 8 and 9 who watched more than two hours of TV a day or spent more than one hour a day on a computer had lower scores than their peers on reading and numeracy at ages 10 and 11, our … Read more
Workers are seeking credentials to get an edge in the job market. Ridofranz/GettyImages Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, have seen a surge in enrollments since March. Enrollment at Coursera – an online platform that offers MOOCs, has skyrocketed and was 640% higher from mid-March to mid-April than during the same period last year, growing … Read more
Since the time CoVID crisis started to engulf us, the way work gets done is turning digital and the age of ‘going to the office’ to get things done, is slowly spinning out of the picture. Most of us can now work from home, which used to be something we all longed for at some … Read more
Glass of milk | Source: pixabay.com, couleur Few months back, little before COVID-19 pandemic gheraoed the whole world, my mother visited us in Singapore. She spent her whole life in a remote village in Bihar. It was a new and unique place for her. One Saturday night, she was invited to my friend’s home for … Read more
India’s historical lockdown is now in its sixth week. It all started with an appeal from the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to observe 14-hours voluntary Janta curfew on 22nd March 2020. Further, on 24 March 2020, the Prime Minister ordered the nationwide lockdown for 21 days, affecting 1.3 billion people of India. Â As India was … Read more