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21 COVER STORY 40 Current Affairs Education of girls has a huge impact on all levels of society. A recent report of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFAGMR) says that millions of girls around the world are still being denied education
THE REGULARS 10 Edu Capsule 59 News Plus
42 Hot Career 16 Corporates and Education Education is the best investment since a powerful economy depends on knowledgeable, skilled and an educated workforce. DLF Foundation, the philanthropic arm of real estate giant DLF Group, knows this very well. The Foundation has been empowering the rural communities through various education initiatives and skill-based development programmes since 2009
THINK DIFFERENT, ACT DIFFERENT Education Insider presents you the fascinating stories of 10 youngsters who have taken unconventional careers in their life. They are from different educational backgrounds and betting their fortune in diverse fields, but a common thread connects them and that is ‘Think Different.’ They think different and act different – that is the only criteria for Team EI to select them for the cover story of this edition. They have an undiluted passion to do what they like. The cover story explodes orthodox notions about the career choice of these 10 people.
Sanjiv Marvah, Director of ERA Business School, Delhi on consultancy as a hot career for youth
54 VC Speaks
EXCLUSIVES 70 INTERVIEW James Richardson, the Director of International Development at Sheffield Hallam University, UK speaks on their developmental programmes and entry to India
Dr M C Dileep Kumar, the Vice-Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady speaks on the importance of sanskrit as a vedic language and its relevance in the modern society.
49 Edu Expert Pritha Gopalan, an educational anthropologist actively involved in research on public education reform, speaks on Public Private Participation in education
13 The Dark side of IT industry-II Pavan Soni, the innovation ivangelist, classifies the challenges before IT industry under five headsintellectual, behavioural, social, economical, and environmental
COLUMNS 32 Dr B Ashok, IAS Technocrats in civil service
38 T P Sethumadhavan Scholarships for overseas study
46 Hemant Kumar Kochar Food stylist career
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62 CAMPUS VOICE Are B-schools becoming mediocre ?
66 What education taught me
Is the quality of Management education declining? Is there a need to revamp Management education? Here is what the Management students of M S Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bengaluru, have to say on the quality of Management education
75 Improve your English One language that has been the catalyst to globalisation is English. Indians have largely benefited from our proficiency in English language communication. Call it the British legacy, but that definitely helped us win over opportunities from First World countries. Sunitha Perumal, Country Product Manager of EF International Academy on importance of English
Shankar Tucker is an American clarinettist and music composer. He rose to fame with the popularity of his online music series called The Shruti Box, which features his compositions. The Shruti Box was released on online platforms like YouTube and Soundcloud. Shankar graduated from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied orchestral clarinet performance
56 Enhancing employee management Everyone knows that an inefficient leader produces dissatisfied, unproductive employees. On the contrary, good leaders produce committed, engaged and productive employees
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Percentage of poorest females 7-16 Average years of education for the who have never been to school poorest 17-22 year old females Rank
Country
%
Rank
Country
Years
1
Somalia
95%
1
Somalia
0.3
2
Niger
78%
2
Niger
0.4
3
Liberia
77%
3
Mali
0.5
4
Mali
75%
4
Guinea
0.5
5
Burkina Faso
71%
5
Guinea-Bissau
0.8
6
Guinea
68%
6
Yemen
0.8
7
Pakistan
62%
7
Central African Republic
0.8
8
Yemen
58%
8
Burkina Faso
0.9
9
Benin
55%
9
Pakistan
1.0
10
Coted’lvoire
52%
10
Benin
1.1