As technological innovation brings about rapid changes and retraining becomes a lifelong necessity, industry should take over more and more of the responsibility for education.   The pace at which technology changes the face of workplace has taken many people by surprise. As a result of this change, employees have to update their work-related knowledge throughout their working life. Hence, it seems the responsibility of industry to provide further education to...

Some governments say how many children a family can have in their country. They may control the number of children someone has through taxes. It is sometimes necessary and right for a government to control the population in this way. Do you agree or disagree. As over-population turned a nightmare of the world countries, many governments started taking steps to tackle this problem. Some countries have implemented rules regarding the number...

“Failure is proof that the desire wasn’t strong enough”. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.   Success and failure are two terms in discussion for quite some time now. It is rightly said that ‘success has many fathers while failure is an orphan’. No one likes to bear the responsibility of a failure. Some people link failure to lack of determination, which, in...

Business Education and Training today must promote environmental awareness. Agree or disagree? People around the world have become well-aware about the environmental problems. Industries are blamed for the environmental issues people face today. Hence there is the demand that environmental awareness should be a part of business education. First of all, unethical alterations on ecology are the main reason for many of the environmental problems we face today. Many industries turn...

A company in which every employee is made to feel important will run more smoothly and experience greater success than a company that values some employees above others. Discuss.   Companies adopt different ways to encourage their employees and to enhance productivity. Some may give financial incentives, some promotion and so on. It seems correct that the company that treats all its employees equally will function more smoothly than the company...

As children do we have a natural ability and motivation to take up new interests (such as languages, sports and musical instruments) which, as adults, we seem to lose? Are there too many social pressures on adults or are there other reasons for the apparent decline in a human being’s capacity to learn?   People get most of their lifetime knowledge in the beginning stage of their life. Children’s ability to...

Nowadays children as young as ten are committing terrible crimes such as murder and rape. If children commit such crimes age is no excuse and they should be sent to prison for the rest of their lives. Do you agree? Recent days are witnessing an alarming rise in crime among children. However, governments are lenient in punishing those young delinquents as some people believe that the punishment should be lighter for...

Nowadays people do not have the same respect for their elders as they once had. Do you agree or disagree? Media and the aged generation often allege that the young ones today have no respect towards their elders. In my opinion, the modern youngsters are being unnecessarily criticized by the society. One has to accept the fact that lifestyles and customs are vulnerable to changes and that the last four decades...