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How we Work | TARA Akshar+
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Technique for learning. Development Alternatives Group.
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TARA Akshar+ | TARA Akshar+
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A magical approach to literacy solutions. Literacy and Numeracy programme is a highly successful and cost effective method for helping illiterate people to read, write and do simple arithmetic. Using advanced learning and memory techniques and modern information technology, it can teach a person how to read a newspaper, write a letter and do simple calculations with up to 2-digit numbers all in well under two months of classroom learning, with a daily class of well under two hours. Is hookah as bad as sm...
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Victor Lyons Blog: October 2013
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013. An algorithm that predicts number of prisoners from percentage of 10/11-year-olds that cannot read. From today's Guardian - an article by Neil Gaiman:. Http:/ www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming. I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth – how many cells are they going to need? Poor Economics: A ...
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Victor Lyons Blog: Blowing my own trumpet and casting scorn on others... again
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Blowing my own trumpet and casting scorn on others. again. Today in The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek and elsewhere, there is a report of a scientific experiment at a US university to see if applying magnets to the brain improves memory. The results are published in Science magazine. So it must be true then. Well, not so fast. Firstly, there were 16 treatment subjects. Yes, 16. A miserably small number. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Victor Lyons Blog: March 2014
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Saturday, March 15, 2014. Sociopathy in the workplace and family. There is a superb article about prosperity and the market by Hanauer and Beinhocker in Democracy Journal. Http:/ www.democracyjournal.org/31/capitalism-redefined.php? In summary, it addresses the following problem. Given that markets are not perfectly efficient, and people are not perfectly rational, and money is a poor measure of prosperity, how do you measure prosperity, and how do you increase it? That, to me, is the real question.
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Victor Lyons Blog: Whom do you trust?
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Monday, September 15, 2014. Whom do you trust? Last night I watch a fascinating National Geographic TV program about the vital importance of first impressions. Http:/ braingames.nationalgeographic.com/episode/3/. This has very strong implications for PR, marketing and selling. In summary, the following research findings were highlighted:. Statistics show (yeah, ok) that people are willing to spend 30% more on a known brand compared to a generic in a supermarket. All things being equal, people will always...
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Demonstration | TARA Akshar+
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Technique for learning. Development Alternatives Group.
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Victor Lyons Blog: July 2014
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Saturday, July 12, 2014. Tories discuss stripping benefits claimants who refuse treatment for depression. From today´s Sunday Telegraph:. Http:/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10964125/Tories-discuss-stripping-benefits-claimants-who-refuse-treatment-for-depression.html. According to the government, 46 per cent of benefit claimants receiving Employment and Support Allowance, the main benefit for ill and disabled people, have mental health problems. That's 260,000 claimants. So probably 5&#...
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About us | TARA Akshar+
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With support from various Government and Non-Governmental organisations, the TARA Akshar. Literacy programme has been tested and proved with over 1,29,000 women who were completely illiterate. The students were spread over 850 locations in 8 States of Northern India. The results from this large test sample have been extraordinary. Implementation of the TARA Akshar. Technique for learning. Development Alternatives Group.