Is your child an academic struggler? Is your child gripped with poor self-esteem? Is your child under undue influence of peers? Are the relationships at home strained? For the most part, all of these are the consequences of poor school education. School is the second home for children and unless the first home is very […]
Read more >Schools need a strong vision as much as all other institutions – social, economic or governance! Indeed, the lack of a strong vision for schools is a big part of the current crisis in education. To understand the big difference a vision statement will make to a school, let us see an example of a […]
Read more >When it comes to the forefront of the global human resources landscape, Diane Gherson is someone you want to know. As Chief Human Resource Officer at IBM, Diane has helped to revolutionize IBM over the past 13 years. Under her leadership, she has transformed global workforce outcomes through talent analytics and data, with special emphasis […]
Read more >It makes better sense to discuss this question directly with parents. The discussion that follows could be directly shared with parents, without any need to edit. Would you ever board a flight that promises 99% air safety standards? Would you get operated for knee replacement if the declared success rate of the surgeon is 90%? […]
Read more >We wish to approach the discussion on this question by briefly revisiting the need for a new definition. One of the obvious reasons for a re-look at schools is the stress in the school education system; schools as institution are under tremendous stress. Unprecedented stress has crept into the role of every stakeholder in school […]
Read more >Most certainly. But we do not have to create good human beings, all of us are born good human beings, in fact we are all born with “all the qualities of head and heart”. Schools may not try to do better than God’s creation – children! Here is a sample of human values children most […]
Read more >Do not be fooled by the clutter, hype and phobia of the stories on poorly-life-skilled children! Life-skills trainings of children, and all the noise around it, are fairly wasted attention and energy! To cap it all, schools do not mind taking life-skills agenda to the top because it is (far) easier to ‘teach’ life-skills to […]
Read more >BENGALURU: Tata Consultancy Services TCS ) has offered about 1,000 freshers with new-age digital skills almost double the salary it normally pays those coming out of campuses. While the entry-level salary of Indian engineers in the IT industry has been stuck at about Rs 3.5 lakh per annum for the past decade, TCS is offering […]
Read more >Art is one of the fundamental building blocks of human culture; every culture that has ever existed has its own unique art forms that they leave behind for future generations. Art and design are vital skills for becoming visual communicators at home, at school, and at work. Both art and design share the same knowledge […]
Read more >BENGALURU: Infosys is doubling pay packages for employees who successfully complete its new bridge programmes. These are programmes that help staff to shift from their existing job to one that demands higher skills. The company expects this initiative will also reduce attrition at junior levels — the rate has been high in recent times at […]
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