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Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University The number of universities is important, but even more important is the quality of education In 1854, East India Company established three universities in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and today India is home...
Prof Sandeep Sancheti, Director, NITK Surathkal Children should be encouraged to develop skills Vocational Education focuses on imparting some specific job related skills to the students. Vocational training is not part of higher education, it stands somewhere between schools and higher education depending...
Deepankar Bhattacharya, Sr Manager, India Education Programmes, AutoDesk There is a lot of job opportunities provided the graduate students have the requisite skills sets The emerging trends in higher education should be aligned to the broader trends in the...
Dr Francis C Peter, Vice Chancellor, Dr K N Modi University The hour is to have a technological solution for holistic engineering practice and system Education institutions, particularly those in engineering sector, constantly face the challenge of upgrading their infrastructure...
Dr Kripa Shankar, Vice Chancellor, Gautam Buddh Technical University Higher education cannot flower without there being a solid base of lower levels of education First of all, we need to understand the meaning of higher education. Higher education normally...
Prof Rameshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University A business can be assessed on basis of profits that it makes, but in higher education we don’t have such parameters Demand for higher education is increasing not only in India,...
Nagendran S Executive Vice President, MeritTrac By 2020, Indian will have 47 million people ready for the job market, provided they are trained properly. If we compare with other countries, this estimate is lesser by around 15 million....
Dr Parag Kalkar, Director, Singhad Institute Major areas of Indian economy have been liberalised during the post 1991 period, but education has not seen any major liberalisation. Government policies for the education sector continue to be quite rigid. The...
Suman Bose, Country Managing Director & VP, Siemens Industry Software India Pvt Ltd In India, Siemens has over 25-27 thousand people, but it still finds it difficult to hire the right set of resources that are important for growth and development. The...
Dr A S Vasudev, Executive Director, Indian Academy of Pediatrics Due to heavy school bags children suffer from backache Health is not only absence of disease; rather it is also a state of complete physical, mental and social well being....
Amol Arora, MD, Shemrock Group of Schools Pre-schools: from being a centre for rote learning to being a place for a child to be happy Shemrock Pre-schools have been around for 23 years and have seen 2 lakh children graduate. Good...
Sharbari Purkayastha, Head of Products, Rumi Education (P) Ltd In order to achieve stress free environment for children, continuous interaction between parents and teachers is a must Rumi Education is an Organisation that cares deeply about teaching and learning and...