Given the recent rising interest rates worldwide, the problems in the US housing market (falling prices, rising repossessions), and the problems in many of the housing loans market ( can anyone say “1980’s S&L”?), The NewsRoom has put together a collection of videos for you to watch. Should put in some perspective for you as Friday approaches. Love to hear your comments.
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What is PanopticonAsia.com?
Panopticonasia.com is small online publishing company. We specialize in two areas that are of interest.
The first is providing facilities for online academic journals; the second focus is creating unique blogs for individuals.
Although we don’t have a specifically Asian focus, you’ll find that many of the website we’re involved with do have an Asian flavor, with their authors being based in Taiwan or Japan. Other websites in our network don’t specifically target Asia, but still contain a large Asian focus within their network.
Some of the sites in the network, in order of creation.
- Kuixing Journal
- Pleiades Journal of TYLE
- InvestorBlogger and Books
- Obblogatory
- Vital Language
- Craig Ferguson Images and Blog
- Agents Chat for Education Industry
- NozKidz.com Language School
- EFL in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan
- Elaine Gilmour
- TESOLTeachers and Books
- Taipei Tim
Past Clients of note:
Hwa Kang Journal of TEFL (no longer active).
Readings – ‘b-schools’ why should they bother with research?
A little off-beat for some readers of this blog, but the Economist.com examines Business schools and research in a recent article called “Practically irrelevant?” and asks whether any money spent on ‘business research’ is actually worthwhile!
LIKE other academic institutions, business schools are judged by the quality of the research carried out by their faculties. At the same time they mean to equip their students for the real world, however that is defined. Whether academic research actually produces anything that is useful to the practice of business, or even whether it is its job to do so, are questions that can provoke vigorous arguments on campus.
Of course, academics have long had to justify, in practical terms, why they spend or make money the way they do, so there has been a continual fluctuation between the practical and theoretical in many other disciplines, as well.
I won’t submit to the view that research is a waste of time, money and energy, but then on the other hand, not all research is a valid use of the time, money and energy available, either!
What do you think? Should ‘b-schools’ do any research at all or just teach?