Higher starting salaries for graduates in 2015

The UK’s leading employers expect to recruit significantly more graduates in 2015, and are offering 9% more entry-level vacancies than last year – the biggest annual rise in graduate recruitment for four years. According to AGR Graduate recruitment  research out , at Unilever, their future leaders programmes which includes  Research and development – a graduate could start…

History Recounted in a Most Compelling Formula

Killers of the King – The men who dared to execute Charles 1 (with illustrations including colour).  By Charles Spencer. ISBN 976-1- 4088-5170-8 Bloomsbury. Hardback £20, eBook £17.99 Seven years of bloody and violent civil fighting, beginning in 1642, took place before the arrest of  Charles 1 who appeared in court to be  told he…

Fancy a bit of Anglo-Asian Culture? Read on…..

Balraj Khanna – A Creative Legend who weaves his magic through the written word as well as giving us mysteries to  ponder in his prolific works of art – and has a real claim to fame….. Balraj Khanna, enchanting author and artist, prefers his art to not only remain something of a mystery in terms…

100 brains missing from The University of Texas

Austin: The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains. That’s about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in jars of Formaldehyde. One of the missing brains preserved is believed to have belonged to clock tower sniper Charles Whitman. The co-curator of the collection is psychology…

Digital text books for Indian schools in Kerala

Students at Government Upper Primary School Vellayil West in Kozhikode. Photo: S. Ramesh   Kerala on the South West Malabar Coast 15000 Square miles, has the highest literacy rate among the states of India and topped the Education Development Index (EDI) among 21 major states in India. More than 94% of the rural population has…

BOOK REVIEWS: Business of self improvement

  “Think Better: an innovators’ guide to productive thinking” (McGraw Hill, NY), was released in the US in October 2007and now it’s available on Amazon and of course in major bookstores everywhere. There are thousands of books on thinking, creativity or innovation, but very few books provide clear how-to information that can actually help people…