With JEE around the corner, aspirants are gearing up with preparations for one of the toughest examinations in the world. To excel at this arduous competitive exam is no easy task; it requires developing a certain mindset, understanding, and stamina, which is different from what students are taught in a regular school. Student needs to have an agile mind that is capable of analytical thinking and understanding of complex core concepts. They need to build a strong and solid foundation of scientific and technology knowledge students, which is possible through deep levels of determination, focus and concentration. This is the reason why Gurukul systems are considered to be the best places to facilitate a sound learning environment.
By 2025, India will have 119 million 18 to 22 year olds, which means India will be home to the largest student population in the world by then. Indias education institutes will face several challenges if they are to be able to meet the demand for courses of all types from vocational to academic and at standards acceptable to both students and the government.
Stepping out of the sheltered environment of a school and a comfortable life at home under the guidance and support of parents marks a major turning point for every student stepping into a university. Just like every other phase of life, it is not the academic and theoretical knowledge alone that we gather but also incur several practical real-life experiences during the course of time and thus, have our respective take-away lessons from them. Becoming financially independent in terms of handling your own expenses and allocating a suitable budget for yourself, is one thing which comes across as both a responsibility as well as a feeling of growing up as an adult.
Minerva Schools at KGI, one of the most innovative institutions in the world, announces the commencement of admissions to its undergraduate courses for the academic year 2017-2018. The online application form is free of cost and the selection will be based on merit. The last date for the submission of forms is March 15, 2017, for all courses.
Parents who have taken the decision to home-school their children in the last decade or so find themselves in a comfortable space, thanks to the exponential growth in technology. The anxiety over where these resources are available was always a factor while considering the decision. Well, not anymore.
Employment assessment programmes at colleges are typically designed to help students attain their goals at the completion of the course. It helps students to recognise their strengths and areas of improvement, identify industries and functions that may suit their skills and interests, measure gaps and provide feedback. These are necessary for students to prepare themselves to get selected and perform at workplace.
In a growing technology-driven and industrialised world, increasingly people are forgetting the traditional crafts and moving towards new innovations. Due to this, the artisans are moving to alternative sources of income generation, for instance – daily wage labours and farming; and the art is losing its grip. Preserving and protecting the skills and knowledge of traditional crafts is a growing challenge. So it is desperately needed to revive the art and form and spread awareness about them in urban space. It should be a world where the handmade things are given the respect they deserve and the artisans are also recognised for their talent and effort.
India has over 3500 B-Schools but only a handful are recognised across the globe. On the other hand, the top 30 American and European B-Schools have established a reputation across the world. These schools offer their students a strong dose of ‘Character Building, besides teaching them Business Management. Corporates insist that the young people they recruit as executives, must be imbued with the right values. This helps students to understand that corporate life in todays ‘VUCA World is tough and also requires perseverance, agility and discipline, besides the domain knowledge. This enables the top global B-Schools to radically transform the thought processes of the students and differentiate themselves significantly from the crowd.
Banking is one of the fastest growing sectors and is one of the most preferred avenues of employment in India. Banking sector index has grown at a Compounded Annual Rate of over 51 percent since 2001. In the next five years, banks are expected to recruit almost 7.5 lakh people. It is because of its compensation schemes, job security, housing and medical facilities that the sector has always been attractive for job seekers.
A robust education system reflects any country's growth and prosperity. Education acts as the foundation for a brighter future of an individual. Over the last few decades, great strides in India's education system were made though the focus on developing the right set of skills and providing training to create global citizens is still missing. There is a dire need to empower individuals who have the power to make a difference in the world by eradicating the most of the complex issues.
The term biology comprises life and living beings in general. Since humans fall under the category of living beings, Biology is helpful in explaining the various phenomena both around and within us. After going through this article, one can appreciate the importance the importance of biology in our day to day lives.
In a class of students, every child has a unique personality which develops over the course of the academic years until he or she becomes an adult. More than what is taught in the classroom, children learn from interpersonal interactions with other children in the class as well as their teachers. However, among the majority, there is a fraction of children who are unable to cope with their social environment and may display symptoms of anti-social behaviour. In such cases, timely detection and intervention can help in managing the child's behavioural issues.
Personality as a whole, is the sum total of traits a human is entitled to have - both inner and outer. It is the sole entity that is unique in every person. It constitutes of body language, intuitive intellect, confidence - all the focal points that serve as a differentiator between individuals. This use of personality is instrumental to success in life.
Are you a consumer of technology or a creator of technology? It is natural that there are more consumers than creators. However, every country needs a substantial number of creators to be able to progress and compete globally. For this, we need to equip our children with the habit of creating technology rather than just using technology.
While the value of the rupee slides down with each successive year, the cost of living climbs up steeply. To cruise through your foreign education with ease and to minimise strain on your bank account, try to consider the scholarship options before applying to a foreign university.
Choosing a college can be an onerous experience due to the plethora of options available to students today. The right guidance is necessary to help the student make an informed decision and prevent him/her from going astray. The right set of guidelines will help you sail through this laborious process. Below are 5 pointers that can help narrow down your options.
Business Analytics is the practice of using data to drive business strategy and performance. It is undergoing massive, disruptive changes that will radically transform the way the industry and customers think about analytics. The exponential growth in data is a key driver of this change. In one of its research IDC predicts that by 2020, the amount of high-value data worth analysing will double and 60 percent of information delivered to decision makers will be actionable. Adding up to the massive increase in disposable data, the mainstream adoption of cloud computing across the enterprise continues to put pressure on the capabilities of businesses to incorporate all relevant data from multiple data sources to enable users to make more timely, comprehensive, insightful business decisions. All this adds up to Business Analytics demand by companies for new tools and techniques to quickly and easily collect all types of data, and to store, manage,integrate, manipulate, aggregate, analyse all that data into useful information that positively impact their businesses.
This may sound personal but when I look back at my life, I always remember the moments when I couldn't wait to "grow up". Being older meant more freedom, more independence, and the picture looked perfect from where I stood at age 10.
I so vividly remember walking in to teach my ninth Standard English class and one of the students asked me the spelling of a word I did not know. I was so embarrassed because as a teacher I thought I was supposed to know all the answers. I had joined the profession as a thanksgiving to a teacher who had changed my life and loved every bit of it till that one afternoon. I fumbled a bit, and than basically admitted to the class I did not know the spelling to a hushed giggling sound from the back where this child sat. Over the years, I have thought of that particular afternoon and come to realise that as a teacher we are made to believe that we are super human beings with vast storage of knowledge and elevate ourselves to that position by buying into that myth. But it is just not true. We are humans first and teachers later. We have limitations like everyone else. Not that we should not try to overcome them but sometimes the odds are stacked up against us? How am I or anyone else supposed to know how to spell all 1,025,109.8 words in the English language?"
As you enter the school on your first day as a new teacher, a million thoughts must be racing through your mind. On one hand you are excited about your new job and on the other hand you are terrified as to if you made the right choice in taking up this profession. Either ways as butterflies flutter in your stomach now it is show time.
What do some of the most successful people have in common? Well, it is their love for reading. From Oprah Winfrey to Amitabh Bachan, from Bill Gates to Warren Buffet, all of them love to read. Andrew Collins documented what a lot of billionaires think about reading. Oprah and Bill Gates have said that they started reading early and read many books and that gave them the necessary knowledge and skills. Warren Buffet has been quoted saying that he spends 80 percent of his time reading and reflecting. As Dr. Seuss once wrote, The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Why read:
Masters in Business Administration - MBA, the most loved three worded degree of the 21st century is surely the in-thing amongst graduates today. Graduate-level business students in India prefer MBA above any other post graduate course, as per a global survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). India is home to around three thousand institutes offering management education. Of these, only a handful of schools can boast excellent quality education, churn out leaders, and are worth joining. Thus, it becomes imperative for students to be a little careful while picking the right B-school to improve their future career prospects. However, we have seen that even the smart students sometimes err while selecting the right college which in turn makes them regret their decision over the next 2 years. These are some of the common mistakes that students must avoid to have a better experience ahead of them.
Gone are the days when parents enforced their plans about their children's future on them. Gone are the times when a child would follow a career path set solely by his parents. Today a totally different combination of parent-child relationship is seen. Today an effort to walk hand in hand with the child, is seen from the parents' side. A realisation that it is necessary to understand a childs interest and help him construct his career path, has dawned on parents. It is very essential to establish a relation, which encompasses the comfort of sharing things with each other. But differences in thoughts cannot be denied. So how can a Parent-Child duo who may differ by thoughts about career selection come to a conclusion with mutual consent?
I think as parents and caregivers our wish for our child is that they become the best version of themselves. It comes from a space where we acknowledge that it is from us that their life lessons will come from. We are the first teachers and role models of our children. We are the ones they look up to as they build their personalities and character. But we have not had any training modules or special education to train our children. We need to become aware of the mammoth task in front of us and impart to our children the tools and skills that are eternal and will stand the test of any situation and circumstance. And in doing so, the most valuable tool that we may have on our hands is training our children with values. The five values of Truth, Love, Non-Violence, Peace and Right conduct can shape and mold the character of our children and help them navigate their life with the right principles.
Tons of research in the education field points to an important fact – no sustainable improvement in student results and gaps in achievement can be filled until the school leaders, teachers work on strong norms of behavior. School culture has been defined in many ways but we are focusing here on how the adults - the school leaders - behave in a school setting. What practices they follow, how they interact with each other, what values inform their behavior, how do the leaders model their behavior – these become the main guiding force in the schools capacity to learn, improve, design its long term vision and mission and impact the various stakeholders from the students to the parents.
Talking to a teacher who was overwhelmed by the disruptive behavior of one child, it dawned upon me the challenges the teachers face everyday in their classrooms. One of the most amazing professions requires an overdose of patience, kindness and most importantly self-compassion. What does self-compassion translate to in the teaching scenario? Translated in lay terms, it means being kind to oneself. More often than not we do not take a moment and give a pat on our shoulders and breathe and be compassionate to our self.
Clearing the IAS Prelims in the first attempt is considered close to impossible by majority of the candidates. But according to a reliable report, 42 percent of the Top 200 candidates of the IAS exam in 2014 have cleared the exam in their first attempt. This 42 percent includes 4 from the Top 10. So, it is not a near impossibility but a definite possibility to crack the exam in the first attempt.
Traditional classrooms are being replaced by interactive whiteboards with projectors and speakers across the country. The computer-based and internet-based method of learning means that new technology is being introduced enhance learning. Various public and private sector players are now looking to transform education with e-learning and free schools from their rigid teaching methodologies. They are also ensuring that students from even the most remote pockets of the country have access to stellar 21st century education.
6 million rupees. That is how much I paid to get admission into the prestigious London Business School for my Masters in Business Administration. And thats just the admission and tuition fee. Add accommodation, travel, and living expenses, and my entire cost of education for two years came to a grand total of 1 crore rupees. Thats equivalent to doing an MBA from the top IIMs thrice. An increasing number of Indian students are pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate college degrees from abroad, despite high education and living costs. While managing costs for students whose parents have sponsored the courses or with scholarships is challenging, the ones who struggle the most are those of us who need to pay for it on our own. As a result, the only option we have at that time is to take an education loan.
This program is designed to uniquely bridge the knowledge gap between science, business and the culinary arts. It offers a combination of critical, reflective and technical knowledge of the development of innovative food products.
Education has consistently been recognised as the cornerstone of development for any country or region, and one of the highest return rewarding development activities. Education outcome is influenced by a number of factors, infrastructure being one of them.
The field of education has progressed phenomenally over the past few years. Earlier, the focus on vocational training was overshadowed by the formal education system. However, over the past five years, with the growing industry need for skilled manpower, the focus on vocational trainingis back. Corporates, governments and vocational training providers are working together as a three-legged stool to bridge this gap between the supply and demand for skilled manpower across various industries. The focus is to make our youth industry ready, market ready and employment ready. This has translated directly into employment opportunities for the youth citizens of our country.
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