Bridget Terry Long, A.M.’97, Ph.D.’00, a leading economist and internationally recognized scholar on the economics of higher education, will become the next dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard President Drew Faust announced today. Currently, Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE. She was the School’s academic dean from 2013‒2017 and the faculty director of the research doctoral program from 2010‒2013. She will assume her new role on July 1, succeeding James E. Ryan, who will step down to become president of the University of Virginia. “Professor Long brings the energy and imagination to create an…
Author: Loknath Das
Adityendra Suman, 29, a Mumbai-based senior consultant at Dalberg, global development advisors, graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, in 2016. He had taken a Rs23 lakh education loan from the Union Bank of India at 8.5% interest rate for a 15-year tenure, while the course fee was Rs25 lakh. “I am paying a monthly instalment of Rs28,000, including the interest,” said Suman, adding he is not the only one. Pune-based Kinjal B, 32, a product manager at SminQ, a technology start-up, also took a Rs22 lakh loan for a post-graduation course at ISB in 2016. “I am…
This is exactly what was not supposed to happen to the Raptors in Game 1. They were the better team all season. They were the team with rest heading into the second round. They were at home. But it happened. LeBron James and the Cavs marched into Toronto on Tuesday night and stole Game 1. RELATED How the Raptors melted down against the Cavaliers AGAIN The Raptors were in control mostly all night. But time after time they continue to let the Cavaliers back in. In fact, the Cavs took their first lead of the game during overtime. If it’s…
Apple has finally released the iTunes app on the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store app store. Microsoft, at its Build conference held last year, had announced plans to add iTunes to the Microsoft Store. While some Windows users were highly anticipating the debut of iTunes, Apple in December 2017 said that iTunes will not be available in the Microsoft Store that year. The iTunes app on the Microsoft Store is similar to the regular iTunes, but now installation updates will be handled through the Microsoft Store updater rather than through Apple. Notably, the app will only run on Windows 10 PCs with either x86 or x64 architectures. The arrival of iTunes also ensures the software’s…
Popular battle royale shooter Fortnite will be launched in China by Tencent. Users in the country can download the Fortnite client and sign up with their QQ account with an account transfer process in place for those who already have played the international version of the game and want to carry over their progress to the Chinese version of Fortnite. According to Chinese site DoNews (via Touch Arcade), it’s unclear if this would include the mobile version as well, though it would make sense if this was the case. Speaking of which, a Fortnite mobile companion app for China will also be made available with live…
Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress 2 developer and Steam owner Valve has acquired independent game studio Campo Santo. Consisting of veteran talent from Telltale Games, Campo Santo’s debut effort, Firewatch, released to near perfect reviews when it hit in 2016. The studio is hard at work on its second game, In the Valley of Gods that slated for a 2019 release window as well as bringing Firewatch to the Nintendo Switch. It seems that both projects will continue as planned with the team taking to its blog to break the news. “The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we…
Shraddha Kapoor sent the internet into a meltdown by posting a photo of herself admiring a yellow lehenga, which she captioned: “Getting ready for the biggest haldi ceremony of the year.” The 31-year-old actress did not tag anyone, which added to the confusion. Some Facebook users hoped to get an answer from the Aashiqui 2 actress while some have assumed that she preparing for her colleague Sonam Kapoor’s haldi ceremony. Reports of Sonam Kapoor getting married to her longtime boyfriend Anand Ahuja have been circulating on the Internet for quite some time now – and there are many versions of the Kapoor-Ahuja wedding. Early reports stated that Sonam Kapoor…
New Delhi [India], Apr 24 (ANI): The latest fad, doing the rounds on the internet, is snake massage and people are not taking up to this slithery, slippery affair. A verified account posted a rather disturbing video of a woman indulging in the said massage, where the compressions made by slithering snakes, relaxes her muscles. However, it is not sitting well with the Twittereople. The consensus so far is – No! A big, huge no! Here are some of the reactions: A user wrote, “I’ll pass… Thank u very much”.Another user shared a crying meme along with the caption, “…
If you still use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, then be aware that there’s reportedly a major hole in the browser which could be an entry point for malware. Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 found the zero-day exploit which as yet remains unpatched, and is apparently being targeted by a group of hackers at a global level, as reported by ZDNet. This group is apparently leveraging the exploit using malicious Office documents. When said document is opened, it fires up a web page in the background of Internet Explorer, which subsequently facilitates the transmission of malware from a remote server. The host PC…
The best place to get fast internet in Australia might actually be Tasmania, with results from thousands of home broadband tests revealing the island state has the speediest connections. Hobart residents had the fastest internet of all capital cities with an average download speed of 26.3Mbps, according to 10,300 national speed tests powered by Ookla through comparison website Finder. Sydney was the second fastest capital city in the data with a 24.2Mbps average, while Melbourne and Brisbane recorded 23.4Mbps and 23.1Mbps respectively. Adelaide’s average speed was 21.4Mbps and Perth had the worst result at 19.1Mbps. Location is one factor that affects…