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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
For a country aspiring to be a superpower, with more than 250 million children in schools, India’s reluctance to participate in an international student assessment study is confounding.
Breaking news, as they say in my business. As you read this, children in a little over 90 countries are preparing and will be sitting for their PISA assessment this year. PISA is the Programme for International Student Assessment by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges. Children from several countries, both developed and developing, are participating. China is in. So is America. And Brazil. Do you know which country isn’t? India.
I’d written to the OECD team to check about …
India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.
