Outsourcing Blog October Archive

The Outsourcing of Education?

By Website Introductions at 10/05/08 00:53

When your kids go to school one day and you find out that their teachers are foreigners, what will you feel? To some, this would be just fine as long as the quality is the same. For others, this is not good at all.

Apparently, the author of this post is against the idea, presenting his/her racist views as news. Oh bummer.

Link: Outsourcing education: the dumbing down of America - Times-Standard Online

The Call Center Boom: Exploring An Untapped Capacity

Critical thinking and decision-making are essential for everyone during these times of global recession and uncertainty. This statement is greatly considered by business establishments, companies and corporations in the operation of their business to save production and management liability. Thus, the emergence of offshoring through call center companies. Nicaragua has one of the many growing English-speaking people with an untapped offshoring capabilities. To know more about this, read the rest of it here.

Link: Nicaragua Newspaper, The Nica Times Online Edition, Nicaragua Weekly News, Current Events, Call Center Industry Prepares for Major Boom

US Writers Have No Spot in Nobel

The top jury of Nobel Prize in great writing thinks that American writers was way too insular and ignorant to compete against European writers.

Swedish Academy's permanent secretary Horace Engdahl states that there is no coincedence that most winners are European because it is still the literary center of the world and United States.

US writers are too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture, they don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.

The Winners of these prestigious award will commence Monday next week with the Medicine award and the possible literature award is on Thursday.

Link: Nobel judge: U.S. too ignorant to compete - CNN.com