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Brats n Cuties

Abode of Preschool Learning As a challenging world awaits students in big schools, the time spent during preschool stage is acquiring immense significance with each passing year, Elets News Network (ENN) examines why preschools like Brats n Cuties are making a splash.

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Brats n Cuties Focuses on All Round Growth Programmes Toddler’s Programme (For 18 months and above) Since the school believes early learning goes well beyond childhood, it has a toddler’s programme especially designed to accommodate children, irrespective of their physical stage or level of skill learning.

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one are the days when early years of childhood were wasted at home, learning barely anything worth a child’s actual benefit.

With a challenging world awaiting every student in schools, the time spent learning in preschool has acquired significance over the years.

With the concepts of holistic development of children gaining ground among top schools and colleges, preschools like Brats n Cuties offer you a big sigh of relief. It’s a home away from home for your children where they grow up learning everything that matters, without missing on the real fun.

Lots of emphasis is being laid on the holistic development to prepare children and making them future ready.

2’s Programme (For children aged 2 and above) Two years old are highly active and interested in objects and people around them. Brats n Cuties’ Pre-Nursery programme provides structural guidance to every child so that he or she learns to share, gets along with others and performs tasks requiring a longer attention span.

3’s Programme (Nursery Age: 3 years and above) At 3 years, children are capable of solving problems and may even have learnt to recognize alphabets, numbers and basic concepts.

4’s Programme (Prep Age: 4 years and above) At this stage formal learning begins with the classification of subjects like English, Maths, Environmental Science and Hindi. There are series of well-planned and carefully graded term books to fulfil all educational needs at this tender age.

The Group’s Philosophy

As one of the top preschools of India, Brats n Cuties emphasizes on children’s overall development by offering right environment and right stimuli. The school believes the elements for proper learning include an environment that is free from fear and stress and a feel of being valued while having lots of fun. It balances academics with activities giving vent to creativity and inquisitiveness.

Active and Curious Children

As children reach two years of age they turn quite active and are full of curiosity to explore almost everything around them. With physical and mental development taking place at a rapid pace, they want to be noticed for whatever they perform.

And, the pre-school takes care of all this in the daily routine.

Colourful, Chirpy yet Cultural Days

Each day, at Brats n Cuties, begins with the devotional experience, with rendition of Gayatri Mantra (the revered mantra from the Rig Veda) and the school prayer.

Singing rhymes with actions in groups, identifying body parts, colours and oral counting are part of oral interaction. Child initiated activity-based learning takes place throughout the day, ending only with a set of story time, puppet show, dance, music, splash pool and similar things.

It is meant to create an environment where each child feels special, valued and has lots of fun.

As children learn to communicate with those around them, their games become more group-oriented and challenging, some of them involve them in activities like dressing up, clay molding, building blocks etc. Illustrated books help children evolve into creative individuals than being just another inquisitive little souls.

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Preparing Kids the Brats n Cuties’ Way The school’s methodology is an amalgamation of tried and tested Indian teaching methodology with the Montessori system, a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. This, in turn, is integrated with novo technologies and innovative teaching tools which are developed with constant R&D of consultants and teachers.

Since experiential learning is most adaptive at this age, the school curriculum involves such projects and themes.

At Brats n Cuties, as an early childhood educator, the approach followed is devised from a host of resources and includes facts from theories on early childhood, an understanding of the development of child and the kind of experience they have had with the children in diverse learning environments.

STRUCTURAL PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH FOR LEARNING The curriculum pivots around a tri-way learning methodologies in which teachers, parents and the tiny-tots are equal participants.

Distinct Teaching Methodology The school has holistic approach towards education of toddlers.

INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION DELIVERY Edudrama The school has been the pioneer of introducing Edudrama and unlike how other schools have tried to morph it by dramatizing the stories only. Whereas edudrama’s scope of learning is an enchanting experience, which enhances linguistic skills, awareness, voice modulation, facial expression and imagination.

Tablet based Learning It helps the school to keep the kids abreast of latest trends in education.

Themes and Projects The monthly themes and projects build awareness about environmental issues and provide an opportunity to get hands on experience of concepts through the activities.

The school organizes various events to provide a wide exposure and fun to the tiny-tots.

Educational Trips Widen the horizon of thought process of the child.

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Your Child’s Second Home

To churn out the well groomed portals through experiential learning, stage exposure, personality grooming sessions, phonics and dictions, activities are held to improve fine and gross motor skills. Special stress is laid on developing physical endurance of the child.

Prime Concern - You Child’s Safety It is ensured that security of the children is of utmost importance at all times. Strict supervision is observed when children are outdoors in the play area. Regular video recording is done of learning rooms, corridors, play areas, entrance and exit, besides frequent assessment of security measures.

Check-ins and Check-outs Every child is signed in and out of the school with a digitally maintained check-in system that has a unique id assigned. A pre-designated pickup consent list, with photographs of the authorised people including parents is strictly followed while the child is being handed over at the time of dispersal from the school or at the drop point.

Attendance at Regular Intervals Teachers take attendance in the learning rooms after the check-in and thereafter at the end of every activity outside the learning rooms.

Health and Hygiene Every child is provided with the healthy, hygienically prepared, nutritional meal readied from the scratch using freshly sourced vegetables and dairy products, which is extremely essential for their overall well being.

Since children spend a considerable amount of time at the premises, hygiene is maintained on the campus and the fumigation is done regularly. The washrooms are kept spic and inspected after every few hours.

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Grooming Kids Holistically Brats n Cuties nurtures a holistic approach for educating toddlers. The main idea is to groom children in a way that they develop good communication skills; self confidence while embracing moral values, says Deven Khullar, Chairman, Brats n Cuties, a group of Preschools, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What are the Genesis of the Brats n Cuties Group of Preschools?

Brats n Cuties genesis was pivoted around providing the children of 21st century of India a world class facility in terms of ambience, and infrastructure that evokes self-exploratory learning and it prepares the children for the formal education in years to follow, giving them the right foundation and most importantly giving the parents a say in the learning and grooming a child’s experience at Brats n Cuties. Understanding the twin work culture, technology was used extensively to give the parents an insight into the school through live relay of the classes What philosophy do you abide by as a group to educate toddlers?

We groom and educate our children, emphasizing on developing their communication skills, boosting their self confidence, instilling in them moral values and helping them become independent. Our focus remains on indentifying the inherent talents and honing the skills of our little ones, ensuring they are empowered enough to take on the world.

As a brand, what distinguishes you from various other preschool brands in the country?

We clearly understand that the pedagogy could not be the only factor to differentiate Brats n Cuties from others and not only a different curriculum could have set us apart. What makes Brats n Cuties stand tall and unique from other operating brands of the country is our concept of “Parents as Partners” and incorporating project based learning into our curriculum which gave us inroads into the preschool segment and made us the most preferred preschool in the parent’s community.

our connect with the parents. To ensure the delivery at par we do rigorous workshops and on the floor training for all our partners so the quality remains homogeneous.

What is your vision for the brand and how do you see the brand’ expansion in the near future?

We are very clear that the expansion excites but should be never done at the expense of compromising quality delivery. Our immediate target is to touch number 50 Preschool pan-India but the vision has a clarity that we are going to award our name to only passionate entrepreneurs who understand this industry and value our systems to be part of our vision.

What has been your brand’s achievement so far?

We won Top 100 Franchisor Award by Franchise India in 2012. We emerged as the first choice preschool for well read and globe trotted parents. We were awarded as the most child friendly infrastructure in 2009.

The preschool Franchise business is blooming rapidly and lot of new players are joining the fray. How does Brats n Cuties make sure the interests of the partners are always upheld?

We welcome competition as long as it is from the groups who are looking at preschool industry not just as a business prospect but are hardcore educationists and have passion for this. We ensure that we keep evolving with times to maintain a position as a most preferred school and gives our partners business enough thrust.

How does your brand ensure the quality of all its partner schools?

For us brand-building was not just by infrastructure or facility instead it was all about delivery on the floor with the children and

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Why A Preschool?

With a child’s career being one of the most important concerns of all parents, the first intelligent step towards addressing this is making the finest possible beginning. It is best to expose the little ones to a learning place away from home.

Parents enroll children in preschool due to its various advantages, as it helps preparing kids for kindergarten and elementary school.

These preschools also come handy for those parents who lack adequate time for kids due to work engagements or other pressing commitments to attend.

These special schools are very important in the initial development of a child’s life, as they offer first exposure to learning and education. It is also the first occasion of a child venturing out of his or her comfort zone -- home. They learn while playing as they are not really expected to study.

The real learning comes to them with their interaction with other kids, games, songs and other activities. Children enjoy celebrating their first freedom from home, as they have fun with kids of their age.

These preschools contribute significantly in the preliminary education of the child, as these fun schools have teachers (read trainers) who also don the mantle of parents. Since the mode of teaching or training is personal, it helps teachers in figuring out the perfect way of teaching individual child.

A preschool has lower student-teacher ratio that helps the teachers to focus on each child individually.

The children get to learn their first lessons of lives through rhymes, games, songs, alphabets and numbers. A child is made to identify different objects. Children are taught in such a way that it helps them develop basic etiquettes and grow as an independent individual.

Since almost every child goes through anxiety or nervousness away from parents for long hours, Brats n Cuties ensures that every child feels comfortable by providing them an environment of a home away from home.

Scope of Preschools as Business Scope of preschool education is large enough as it is an industry considered to be one of the recession proof industries.

More importantly the preschool industry is the third largest expenditure group in Indian households. Another reason for its wide scope is that preschool education has its impact on child’s future and overall life besides influence on their family. So all this makes every well-read parent view preschools as an integral part of a child’s education.

About Preschool Market Sending their children to preschools has become imperative for well-read parents these days.

In today’s cosmopolitan world of twin working culture and nuclear families, there is a growing need of parents to find a school in whose care their child can be entrusted, due to which the concept of Day Care came into being. These Day Care Centres are provided to children aged 0-10. These Day Care Centres follow a structured routine and are equipped with exceptional learning and age appropriate playing facilities for children.

In these centres, children are engaged in various kinds of activities such as singing and painting.

The staff of these day care centres is trained. With their individual attention to children, it helps the latter in their emotional and physical growth.

Preschool or Child Care Market in India to Grow 21.84% by 2020 According to Preschool or Child Care Market in India 2016-2020 report, the analysts forecast the preschool or child care market in India to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.84% during 2016-2020.

The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the preschool or child care market in India for 2016-2020.

It says the footprints of various international schools and kindergartens in India have led to a major change in the educational curriculum.

These international schools follow the Western educational system. This has led to the increase in enrollments of children from elite class and upper middle-class families.

According to the report, new vendors entering the child care market are adopting this system due to the rise in interest of parents in the blended learning of both western and Indian educational system.

The special report says, the absence of regulations for setting up schools, low investments, low interest rates from banks, and the ability to expand geographically using the franchise structures are the major factors that are encouraging many vendors to enter the market.

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What Makes Brats n Cuties special?

With a strong focus on child’s holistic development, it’s also our duty of a child’s complete safety. Different methods and technologies are used to teach, to train, to skill and to keep children safe not within school premises but up to their doorsteps. ● Orientation Programmes for Parents ● First school to introduce live relay and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Cards ● ROI Enhancer ● Ever Evolving in its curriculum and teaching methodologies

Partner with Brats n Cuties Taking a franchise of a pre-school is not about getting associated with a Pre-school which necessarily has few hundred outlets. It’s about joining hands with a brand which is ever evolving, ever growing, does constant hand holding, assists during Pre and Post opening operations and above all encourages a sense of association, not just as a franchisee but valued channel partners.

Franchise Facts WHAT A FRANCHISE NEEDS

AREA REQUIRED 1500 sq. ft. and above Pre-Opening Franchisor Support: ● Assistance in site selection ● Assistance in negotiation of suitable terms with lease agreement ● Support in organizing of all necessary regulatory approvals ● Comprehensive turn-key assistance ● Architectural support, layout and design ● Support in comprehensive centre setup ● Assistance in recruitment and selection of staff ● 4-Day start-up training for franchisee at corporate office ● Special Staff Training in educational skills “Train the Trainer” program ● Systems and procedural disclosure for smooth running of business of the franchisee ● Assistance and representation in organizing of center launch ● Operational and training manuals on lease.

INVESTMENT Rs. 8 Lac - Rs. 12 Lac

ROYALTY/COMMISSION 0% Royalty 300% ROI

Post Opening Franchisor Support: ● Assistance in fine-tuning business operations and periodic review to ensure achievement of set objectives. ● Franchisee Coordinator to assist you in all center operations and franchise related matters ● Regular checks, feedbacks & guidance on revenue generation and cost control ● Marketing and advertising support ● Support in organizing of promotional events ● Fortnightly dossier for systematic and smooth conduct of the curriculum ● Regular workshops for teachers to update their knowledge and teaching capabilities ● Professional advices whenever required for all organizational issues ● Complete support in resolving any kind of operational issues relating to staff or children ● Centralized brand building and design support for local advertising. ● Assistance in organizing of regular new events for promotion of the center ● Annual National Talent meet for franchisees ● Periodic skill enhancement training

To improve the ROIs and also optimally utilize the premises Brats n Cuties offers a well researched and structured Daycare – The Nest and Tutorials – Learning Ladder modules. With the help of these modules the same premises can be effectively utilized after the school hours get over to enhance the Returns that one gets on his/her investments.

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HIGHER EDUCATION IS NEED OF THE HOUR

Within one month after taking over the charge Basavaraj Rayareddi, Minister for Higher Education, Karnataka, is addressing the problems slowdowning the augmentation of the higher education in the State. To speedup the development, the minister has come out with 100 days of action plan for his 20-point agenda. He shared his priorities, including ambitious Master Plan for the development of higher education, in an exclusive interview with T. Radhakrishna of Elets News Network (ENN) What is the mandate given to you

by Karnataka Chief Minister?

I am thankful to our CM for inducting me into his cabinet. I have been given a freehand by the CM to do good work in higher education. I apprised him of my 100 days of action plan for my 20-point agenda in the Department of Higher Education. Out of Rs 85,375-crore annual budget for 2016-17 fiscal, the State has allocated Rs 23,000-crore for the

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education (primary, secondary, higher education, etc) in Karnataka. The numbers show the commitment of the State Government. The student population is one crore, which is equivalent to 1/6th population of Karnataka.

Kindly share your vision about higher education in Karnataka.

I am aware of the fact that the

higher education system in Karnataka is demoralised with inside politics and dishonesty methods. We cannot blame it (on anyone) as everyone is responsible for this. The need of the hour is to strengthen the education system collectively with a clear focus on strengthening accountability, transparency, productivity and efficiency. After taking over the charge as the Minister, I held discussions with all the heads of the

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department. I felt that there’s a need for streamlining the system for students’ benefit. Accordingly, I have come out with a 20-point agenda, which is being pursued for next 100 days, from August 1, 2016 onwards.

Statutory Discipline To bring order in the education system, the Department is working on several initiatives.

One, a Uniform Education Act for all 23 State Universities is proposed, for which Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, who is the chancellor of the State-run Universities, has given consent to it. Today, coordination among all the universities has become a major concern as each State University has its own Education Act. With the introduction of new legislation, statutory discipline comes in place for better functioning of the universities.

Two, taking cognisance of the hardships faced by students each year because of delay in announcement of examination results, an order is issued to all State Universities to declare the examination results for UG courses before May 31 and for PG courses before June 30. Failure to adhere to the deadline will result in disciplinary action against the respective vice-chancellors, registrars and examination controllers.

An order to this effect was issued by the Department in August and it will come into effect from this academic year. I feel it is the responsibility of the university officials to take everyone into confidence and ensure that they follow the new common calendar of events.

Three, ahead of the imminent division of Bangalore University (BU), a new committee has been constituted headed by Dr S.A. Kori, Executive Director, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, to ease the process of trifurcation. The decision was taken after convening a meeting with representatives of the BU and special officers of the two new universities, set to be carved out of the BU. I acknowledged the significant delay in the process and asked the committee and the two special officers to give an estimate and requirements of the two new universities. I have directed them to ensure that there are no hiccups in the functioning of the three varsities.

Four, to improve basic facilities at higher education institutions, a master plan for the development of higher

The Cabinet Minister’s 20-point agenda includes bringing in a legislation to ensure Uniform Rules and Syllabus for all 23 State-run Universities and also an ambitious US$ 500 million Master Plan for the development of higher education in Karnataka.

STATE UNIVERSITIES ● Bangalore Univeristy, Bangalore ● Davanagere University, Davanagere

● Gulbarga University, Gulbarga

● Kannada University, Hampi

● Karnataka Folklore University, Haveri

● Karnataka State G.H ● ● ● ● ●

education in Karnataka is being pursued. The State will seek an assistance of $500 million from the World Bank for this ambitious plan. A survey had already been done in 412 government colleges on basic facilities. The final report will be ready very soon. I felt that the higher education in Karnataka is lacking in quality and quantity despite Bangalore being known as knowledge capital of the country. The required (push) for the sector has not been accorded because of fiscal constraints. In order to overcome this, the master plan is being planned.

New Schools Plans are afoot to open new schools and introduce new courses. Karnataka has expedited the process of operations of IIT, Dharwad by registering 470 acres of land in its name. The Institute is ready for official launch in August

by Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah. A total of 120 students have enrolled into the IIT, Dharwad. Out of 120 students, seven are girls and 10 are from Karnataka.

Other proposed institutions include Environmental Research Institute – ERI (at Bellary district); Energy Institute - EI (at Chidradurga district); new IIIT (at Raichur district); and Ban-

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Special Interview galore School of Economics – BSE (at Bangalore Urban district). Karnataka is gifted with mineral resources. As suggested by the Apex Courts (Supreme Court and High Court of Karnataka) in their judgements that there is need for protecting the environment from the unscientific utilisation of the mineral wealth, the proposed ERI will facilitate the needful knowledge and expertise to tackle the situation. There is a need for establishment of BSE in Bangalore, which was once regarded as capital of Banking Sector with the presence of seven National Banks in the city.

Keeping the growth of Karnataka and its needs in mind, we are planning to commence an Advanced Flying School. We are open to collaborations in this regard. We all know that Kempegowda International Airport is fastest growing airport in India. The Ancillary Industry needs to be given impetus to meet the growing demands of the airport. In this regard, the support of academic and R&D is important. The proposed school will facilitate qualified pilots for the air traffic industry.

Similarly, we are planning to commence railway engineering courses in the State.

There is a great demand for talent with railway engineering domain knowledge in the State as Karnataka has ongoing projects of laying new railway tracks up to 4,000 km. The demand for new railway tracks is expected to grow further.

The introduction of new courses in railway engineering will help the State in providing qualified engineers.

Conferences The Department is planning to organise Karnataka State Vice Chancellors’ Summit in September and World Innovation/Creative Forum in November

this year. The objective of the Summit is to ensure quality education for Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses in Karnataka. All Vice Chancellors of 23 State-run universities have been asked to submit their vision documents before the summit. The proposed forum is planned on the lines of World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum. The last edition of the World Innovative/Creative Forum was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Karnataka Chief Minster will be the chief patron, while myself and the Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be the patron and co-patron respectively.

The forum would be the first step in galvanising the R&D facilities across the State, mobilising the entrepreneurs towards innovation and focusing the higher education institutions across the state towards creativity.

New Recruitments Our degree colleges are facing shortage of faculty (Assistant Professors) and Principals. To fill the gap, the Department is in the process of recruiting 2,160 Assistant Professors and principals for vacant positions. Efforts are also on to address the problems of 14,000 guest lecturers working in the State. The Department is also trying to facelift B.Ed programmes and Science Education for strengthening the quality standards.

What’s your plan about improving quality of infrastructure at the educational institutions?

We are working on improving the quality of infrastructure at all education institutions. With increasing quality standards, many Degree Colleges will get accreditation of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and compliance of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

This has been a continuous process in achieving quality and standards.

What is your view about

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HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN KARNATAKA No. of Universities – 50 State Universities - 17 Private Universities - 10 Deemed - 23 Polytechnical Colleges - 305 Government Colleges - 81 Aided Colleges - 44 Private Colleges - 180 Number of Colleges - 2992 Govt Colleges - 411 Aided Colleges - 321 B.Ed Colleges - 433 University Constituent Colleges - 24 Private Colleges - 1803 Engineering Colleges - 207 Govt Colleges - 14 Aided Colleges - 11 Pvt Colleges- 182 Karnataka Knowledge Commission recommendations?

The Karnataka Knowledge Commission (KKC), an important constituent of the Government of Karnataka, came into existence in 2008. It aims to enable the development of the vibrant knowledge based society in the State.

It is headed by Dr K Kasturirangan, a former member of Rajya Sabha. The members of the Commission are drawn from diverse fields like education, science and technology, agriculture and industry. The Commission is independent of the Government and works with and for the Government in policy making and implementation. The context and development of the state of Karnataka is paramount for the work of the KKC. Presently, the KKC has identified six primary focus areas. Each of these areas has a pivotal role to play in transforming Karnataka into a vibrant knowledge society. These are: Literacy and School Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Management, Libraries and Knowledge Networks, and Health Sector. We are committed to the KKC’s recommendations.n

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STATE OF THE ART WAY

Be it digitalized classrooms, flipped teaching, digital library or other facilities, the CHIREC International School offers state of the art education system for students, says Ratna D. Reddy, Founder Director, CHIREC International School, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN)

What have been the key facets of evolution of the learning eco-system at your institution? What all systems & processes have you deployed to accommodate the same?

Digitalized Classroom: Our state-ofthe-art, technology-enabled classrooms offer plenty of natural ventilation, thereby providing the right atmosphere to make teaching and learning an enjoyable experience.

The Kondapur campus, which is the main campus is spread across 5.5 acres land and has spacious fully wired classrooms. It is provided with multimedia projection equipment. They are all digitalized classrooms.

Tablets are used by students of classes 6 to 10. Teachers are able to add on videos and power point presentations to supplement the educational needs of the students.

Flipped Teaching: Tablets are also

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a good tool to provide online lectures, carry out research at home and engage in concepts in the classroom with the help of a mentor. The flipped classroom intentionally shifts the instruction to learner centered model and the class time is then used for a host of active learning activities in the form of integrated projects, lab activities, case studies, debates, presentations, discussions, peer reviewing etc. Teachers are able to deliver highly differentiated instruction through flipped teaching.

Setting up of a Digital library, Class websites and Today@CHIREC: Teachers have developed resources which they use in class, all are pooled into a CHIREC Digital Library, available to all teachers.

What has been the definitive purview about the incorporation of technology in the teaching learning processes at your school?

The impact that technology has had on today’s schools has been quite significant. Teachers are learning how to teach with emerging technologies (mobiles, tablets, iPads, Smart Boards, digital cameras, computers), while students are using advanced technology to shape how they learn. By embracing and integrating technology in the classroom, we are setting our students up for a successful life outside of school.

Technology in the classroom makes learning more fun. Subjects that students deem challenging or boring can become more interesting with virtual lessons, through a video, or when using a tablet.

Technology prepares students for the future: Ed-tech in the classroom

prepares students for their future and sets them up for this increasing digital economy Technology helps students learn at their own pace: Students can learn according to their abilities and needs. It gives him/her the time to work individually with students who may be struggling.

How do you maintain fine balance between the diversified aspirations of parents and their wards amidst constraints of educational environment?

If parents are truly their children’s first and most important teachers, education entrepreneurs and policymakers need to start by understanding parents’ aspirations for their children.

Independent schools are expected to have a transparent method of working and must be communicable at all times.

CHIREC has an open communication system with parents through Emails, SMS, correspondence through the Diary, fortnightly Newsletters. CHIREC mobile App also helps in dispensing information quickly and to the parent directly.

We maintain records that document dates, times, notes and decisions about students if problems arise. A track of communication which the school had with parents throughout the school year is maintained.

The school invites parents for several events like Reading sessions, volunteering, Assembly presentations, Bond for Better, Career Days, Internships etc.■

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Openning the doors of the World of Books

For Neighbouring Government Schools

Empowering the underprivileged with joy of reading

Inaugurated by Smt. Amala Akkineni, Actress, Social Activist & Co-founder of the Blue Cross of Hyderabad.

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In Focus Schools

Catering to Students’

FUTURE NEEDS

It’s a school where teachers keep themselves updated by attending workshops outside, helping themselves to keep teaching methodologies more studentsoriented. Classes are well-equipped with smart tech is used by teachers to ensure classes feel more interesting, says Chandan Aggarwal, Chairman, GD Goenka School, Kanpur in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN). ideal school environment, safe learning space, attractive for knowledgeable teachers, a school that cares for students learning, works hard to keep the curriculum relevant for students’ career sake, and most importantly, where school environment is led by those people who value others.

Why should anyone view your school distinct from others?

In today’s competitive academic environment, it is more important than ever for an educational institution to stand apart from the rest. Some of the factors distinguishing GDGPS apart from oth-

GDGPS’ professional achievements include Imparting education is certainly not a child’s game today, how would you share some of the main challenges of school education?

There is no shortage of challenges in school education today. Some of them include raising the professional status of teaching, designing a 21st century curriculum, promoting flexible learning arrangements focused on growth, identifying and meeting the needs of children.

How would you define the best school in present times?

For a school to exist as a real learning space for a child, it has to be a good match with the child’s needs as well as personality. Some of the features which best define a good school include -- an

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● Leading entrepreneurs Award 2016 (Chairman) ● Best Student of the year in NMIMS Mumbai 2007 ( Mr Chandan Agarwal ) ● Golden Category Award for Development of society by ‘ Business sphere Magazine’ ● GDGPS Kanpur has been rated as best Holistic Development School n the State by Brands Academy. ● International Quality Award by Brands Impact.

ers schools include relieving the burden of administrative duties so that teachers can focus on students, broad collaborative relationship among faculty, parents and students. We communicate updates about students to the parents, share students’ information securely to allow faculty to easily communicate with parents, and use of most modern technology in the classrooms (Educomp / Extramarks). Our teachers are well-trained and highly qualified and undergo various workshops, which helps them with their methodology. Using all these technique and technology we aim at providing the best education in the state and eventually in the country.

Do you think technology is transforming the school education scenario?

In many ways, the technology has profoundly changed education, for one technology has greatly expanded access to education. Today massive account of information (Books, audio, images, videos) are available for everyone through internet. Technology is a powerful tool that can support and transform education in many ways from making it easier for teachers to create instructional materials to enabling new ways for people to learn and work together.

With ever changing dynamics of the education sector, how your teachers are changing their instruction & way of imparting education?

Our teachers are provided opportunities to attend workshops outside which help them to make their teaching methodology more students-oriented.

Classes are well-equipped with smart tech (Educomp / Extramarks) and these resources are regularly used by teachers to make their classes more interesting.

It is particularly helpful in cases of students who are audio visual learners.

The institution also has well equipped Math Lab, Computer lab, Robotics Lab. Teachers are also provided frequent workshops to be able to use these labs as part of their curriculum today.

What are your biggest professional achievements and what priorities have you set for future?

“Respect for the Individual” is the attitude the G D Goenka Public School carried throughout, which hence made us ranked No. 3 in Kanpur and No. 10 in UP.■

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Interview

TGWS preparing

21ST CENTURY STUDENTS

Education at The Geekay World School, Vellore, TN aims at the overall development of body, mind and soul, through constant evolution in curriculum and pedagogical practices, say Vinod Gandhi, Managing Director, and Dr. Praseedha Sreekumar, Head of School of TGWS in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What are the main challenges in school education today?

Nowadays a school’s vision not only focuses on students’ holistic development but also of the parents as an institutional strategy. Taking along parents turns the way forward full of bumpy rides. The parents’ alignment with the system and strategies for the institutional target is a bit challenging but attainable.

and strategies and, most importantly enabling students to have a passion to do pursue their dream. Best schools integrate these attributes in the curriculum for betterment of young minds. The best schools focus more on a long term future, than just today or tomorrow.

What features define the best school in modern times?

We strongly feel the best school is defined with how they execute things than what those things are. The main competent feature for today’s generation is about equipping them with leadership qualities defined by a few attributes -- mastering communication skills, team building capabilities, methodologies

What sets your school apart from others?

We dream to offer flavours of international education, affordable even to the general public. Our evaluation strategies are mainly teacher centered and studentfriendly and encouraging, with friendly observation tools and corrective and constructive feedback. We are constantly on the track of new, innovative and emerging evaluation programmes. A fine and perfect amalgamation of Leadership Curriculum and Community Service

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Programme concentrating on the emotional quotient of each student is one of the striking and unique features of our school. We train students to become competent to face the 21st century challenges since our integrated curriculum at Pre-Primary, Primary and Middle School has been coined to inculcate various skills in students such as interpersonal skills, higher thinking skills, creative and critical thinking. These enable them to face the world confidently.

With technology becoming integral component of modern education, how is it transforming the school education landscape?

Technology is at the heart of learning at The Geekay World School (TGWS). The school activities which include-curriculum, co-scholastics and extracurricular activities centre on computer literacy and competency. Keeping this in mind, the unique curriculum framed and designed in Primary –GIPP (Geekay Integrated Primary Programme) and in Middle School-IMSP-(Integrated Middle School Programme) carry Technology as one of the core components of learning. This integration helps our students to emerge as technically competent global citizens.

What contemporary methodologies are being used by your school in teaching and how much aligned is your school’s curriculum with the modern times?

Our curriculum and the pedagogical strategies undergo metamorphosis with a fine blend of 21st century skill integration. The Geekay Unique curriculum modules and associated activities at school are well framed to explore the maximized potential of the students. We strongly believe in creating a transformed leader who has discovered his/ her self in the true sense through experiencing the real experience of adventure , facing challenges and overcoming obstacles through a fine blend of risk taking and virtue management based on a set goal. Likewise, the education at TGWS aims at the overall development of body, mind and soul through leadership programmes. Adventure/ Leadership Camps are organized every year. The Community Service programme and initiatives further heighten the leadership training at school, instilling the required skills required to face 21st century. n

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Schools in Focus

Golden Bells Pre School Channelises

KIDS’ INBORN WISDOM

A fine balance between diversified aspirations of parents and their wards amidst a realistic set of constraints is established at Golden Bells Pre School, tells the school’s Director Dr.Rajeev Gupta in a tete-a-tete with Elets News Network (ENN).

What have been the key facets of evolution of the learning eco-system at your school?

The key facets of evolution of the learning eco system at Golden Bells Pre School can be definitely classified as Multiple Intelligence (MI) based curriculum and the teaching pedagogy adopted through experiential learning.

Students are taught in the most adaptable and unorganised way through the implementation of the MI profiling and thence worked upon on their individual innate strengths and learning and acquiring style keeping in mind the brain dominance and at the same time focussing on the different quotients – Intelligence; Emotional; Adversity and Creative.

Major emphasis is given on the inborn intelligences accompanied by the three learning styles – Auditory; Visual and Kinaesthetic.

Our scientific analysis through this unique concept guides an individual in assessing his / her inborn abilities and interest, the preferred learning style, the acquiring style, the distribution of all the multiple intelligences, the brain mapping, the reflex angle, the personality profiling and provides information regarding career options.

Children are provided the right ambience and a very stimulating and creative environment for their best, all round development in all requisite fields.

A curriculum anchored around in-

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novation and reinvention, incorporating latest technology trends, facilitates in bringing about an inner change in every student, besides the dexterity and the aptitude to achieve success in an emerging global environment. It empowers the student to ‘think out of the box’.

What systems and processes have you deployed to accommodate the same?

Teaching pedagogies adopted at Golden

Bells are innovative. In each student, we encourage self-confidence, curiosity, problem solving, use of different languages in groups, stimulate questioning and discussion, provide opportunities for conversation and self-expression in English. Certain unique features in our curriculum distinguish us from the rest.

Each child is endowed with a specific talent. To dig up this very distinctive talent in every student, we have incorporated this unique concept of MI. It is the scanning of the fingerprints and brain mapping that is the base of this technology.

Innovation is the epicenter of our School. We firmly believe in unleashing the genius in every child.

What has been the definitive purview about the incorporation of technology in the teaching learning processes at your school?

Golden Bells Pre School happens to be the first School in India to have incorporated MIA. Multiple Intelligence Assessment involves analyzing the potential of a child, learning styles, acquiring styles, brain dominance, and distribution of intelligences through the fingerprints.

It identifies the various hidden intelligences, giving vital information about strengths and weaknesses of a child including emotional, creative, adversity, spiritual and intelligent quotients.

The child is then introduced in his/her strong areas; enough care is taken to improve weak areas.

We lay emphasis on hands on learning wherein students learn and express the same in simple activities. We help the children connect their learning to real life and encourage them to innovate.

How do you maintain the fine balance between the diversified aspirations of parents and their wards amidst a realistic set of constraints which an educational environment poses?

A fine balance between the diversified aspirations of parents and their wards amidst a realistic set of constraints is established at Golden Bells Pre School.

Experiential learning helps them relate classroom theory to the world of work. Engaging in experiential learning opportunities helps them gain valuable work experience before they graduate and experience new work environments.n

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Special Schools

Shaping Lives With

POSITIVE BONDS

Parents play an equal role in imparting quality education and shaping up their child’s personality to excel in this beautiful world and the school lays lot of emphasis on the concept of school-home partnership, says Dr. Rajesh Hassija, Director, Indraprastha International School, Dwarka in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

How would you describe the main challenges in school education in the current scenario?

Inspiring a student to be a learner rather than an examinee is the biggest challenge in today’s scenario.

Today children are hyperactive and have a great quest for learning new things. With the changing time, teacher must evolve a method by which students can learn with joy.

How would you describe distinctiveness of your school?

I focus on the positive bonds as I have just mentioned and my team puts all efforts to inspire every child under our care. With the motto “Teach Each Child, Develop Whole Child”, we are trying to make a difference in the grooming of every child.

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With ever changing dynamics of the education sector, how are your teachers changing their instruction & way of imparting education and how you keep the curriculum up-todate to meet the changing demands?

Today’s child is hyperactive and has a great quest for learning newer things.

There was a time, when students learned the way teacher taught but with the changing time, teacher must evolve a method by which students learn. Today, a teacher must focus on discovering the syllabus instead of covering the syllabus.

If a teacher focuses on discovering the syllabus, the need for the change will be automatically taken care.

What has been your biggest professional achievement so far? What priorities have you set for future?

I take pride in being a teacher, as I’m very passionate about teaching. I still remember while joining teaching profession in 1981, I promised to myself to be different. In the last 35 years, the smile on the faces of my students and their success in all domains is the big-

Amidst cut-throat competition and hollow claims to appear better than others, what are the real qualities that define the best school?

Most of the schools today believe in showmanship. They have artificial halo.

The school which has perfect positive bond amongst the facilitator (teacher), learner and the parent, I believe, is the best school.

Can parental involvement leave a significant impact on children’s learning and education? If yes, how?

Parents are equal partners in providing quality education and shaping every child to excel in this lovely world. I, as Principal, lay lot of emphasis on this school-home partnership.

level of learning. As an exponent of Integrating Technology, I strongly advocate mindscaping through integration of technology.

tion, how do you view technology transforming the school education landscape?

Technology is the only tool which amalgamates all media for learning that is Text, Sound and Picture. Thus, it’s the best tool for facilitating learning. It also allows every child to learn at his/ her own pace of learning and at own

gest professional achievement for me.

However, being advisor to number of schools on Integrating Technology, doing orientation programmes for newly appointed principals of CBSE schools, guiding schools on quality as member of QCI and getting the President of India Award, 2003 have been some of my professional achievements.■

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The magic mantra at Indraprastha is to strive for excellence, seek new vistas, set up goals and face new challenges

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Interview

Little Elly, Heaven of

FUN FILLED PRESCHOOL LIFE What challenges contemporary preschool education is confronted with?

Preschool education sector faces a raft of problems like low teaching salaries, high teacher absenteeism, understaffing, inadequate training, weak quality and inadequate government support. Unavailability of quality teachers has turned a major challenge for Preschools. Increasing competition in education is prompting parents to plan their children’s future from early childhood. Parents have high expectations from preschools in terms of ensuring compliance to the standards of teaching methods.

What distinguishes your school

Little Elly’s years of excellence have won it many awards including: Business Leadership Excellence Summit - 2016 for Preschool chain of the year 2016 Indian Education Award 2015 - Innovation In Early Learning/ Child Development Indian Education Award 2014 - Best Preschool in South Silicon India 2014 - Top 5 Most Promising Preschool In India Top 100 Franchise Business in India for 2013/2014 and 2015

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The school is focusing on expanding footprints in north India. Its brand Little Elly program plays a key role in encouraging entrepreneurs to have a rewarding and challenging career with association, shares

Preeti Bhandary, Director, Little Elly with Elets News Network (ENN).

teachers remain an important part of our curriculum. Our teachers use ICT mainly for word processing and developing lesson plans to address the content of syllabus. This also includes adapting our paedagogy to interact with students and sharing monthly plans with parents. from the rest?

We perceive students’ safety and health as top priority. Most of the times, the students are happily engaged in a variety of activities, working in pairs or small groups all over the room. Our curriculum encourages students’ overall smartness.

Our Early Learning Program is an adventure in learning that builds through storybook, film, song, game, activity and poster. It influences concept and skills. It feeds the child’s imagination, his senses and intellect.

How significant is positive parental involvement in a child’s learning?

Our Little Elly program enables parents to guide the child into a wonderful chapter of preschool. We ensure parental involvement through their presence at general meeting, teacher meetings or during school events. We invite parents with special skills to participate in parent or staff meetings.

We encourage parents to volunteer in the classroom, giving them first-hand opportunity to see, how teachers work with children.

How much technology is transforming the school education’s landscape?

Despite new technologies to learn, our

With changing dynamics of the education sector, how your teachers are trying to keep things aligned with modern times?

Our teachers know the importance of being a child’s first and most important teacher. We recognize the importance of keeping records of a teacher’s effectiveness. The records range in form from a teacher’s individual notes to internal records, reports and observation results.

Records help to see the teacher is learning satisfactorily, if teacher can identify children not making expected progress, the resources she uses are appropriate and if parents are being duly informed.

What priorities you have set for future?

We are focusing on expansions in the northern regions. Franchising is very profitable as it creates new opportunity and increases the area of interest for an aspirant businessman eager to launch his own business and expect quick returns.

Our brand Little Elly plays a huge role in encouraging entrepreneurship to have a rewarding and challenging career. For people who always want to be a part of something bigger, Little Elly provides complete support in starting their own business through our franchise opportunity.■

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Interview

Serosoft’s Academia ERP

MAKING EDUCATION A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE

As the company fathom that the end-customers for any institution are the students ultimately, they need to be served with efficiency. Thus, our flagship product Academia comes with student/parent portals and Mobile Apps for information access anytime, anywhere, said Arpit Badjatya, CEO & MD, Serosoft Solutions Pvt Ltd., in conversation with Elets News Network What was the idea behind making of the Academia ERP? The genesis of Academia is linked to my own experience as a student at the US and Belgium universities. I was impressed by the use of technology in the classroom for learning, and at the institution for administration and activities. I used to wonder why Indian institutions were lagging in terms of educational technology, when we are indeed the world leaders in IT and softwares.

So, after my engineering from the US and MBA from IIM-Calcutta, and stints with JP Morgan London and Accenture India, I decided to embark upon entrepreneurship with Serosoft.

At Serosoft, our raison-d’etre (reason to be) is to build and implement worldclass education management/student

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management software to ease learning, teaching, resource management, and administration at educational institutions globally, with our flagship product being Academia. We serve different segments of the education and learning market with various versions of Academia. Moreover, we started off with a focus on India, and we’ve been expanding internationally at a swift pace for three years.

How did you convert your idea into an implementable methodology?

Academia, our product has gone through a product lifecycle from introduction to growth to maturity.

This expansion has happened in terms of constant evolution with regard to features, modules, technology, report-

ing, analytics and mobility, based on our constant internal R & D, and of course, the customer feedback.

What education segments that you majorly focus on and what solutions do you offer?

Owing to its flexible architecture and high configurability, we have built Academia to address three key segments --- Academia ERP/SIS: For Universities, Colleges and Education Groups, Academia SMS: For Schools and Groups of Schools, and Academia TMS: For Training Centers and Coaching Organizations All these versions are tailored for the specific segment, with modules spanning student lifecycle management and administration. What is also unique about Academia is the ability to work

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with multi-center and multi-campus operations of educational institutions, and its multi-currency and multi-language capabilities. All the solutions are offered on SaaS or License models.

With today’s student fraternity being quite tech-savvy how do you leverage their technology-friendliness?

As the company believes that the endcustomers of educational institutions are ultimately the students, they need to be served well. Thus, our flagship product - Academia comes with student/ parent portals and Mobile Apps for information access - anytime, anywhere.

In addition, we have focussed on creating interactive and rich UI, so that it is a delight for students to use Academia and its self-service features as daily tools for communication, collaboration and feedback. Finally, we have included rich reporting and analytics capabilities to aid the progress of each stakeholder in the education ecosystem, of course, including the students.

What sort of challenges did making of Academia ERP pose?

From a product design perspective, we can classify challenges as functional

We aim to emerge as the No.1 Student Information System/ ERP on a global stage with 2,000 delighted institution clients by 2020. These customers will ultimately be our most effective brand evangelists and technical. On the functional side, it was important that we build a product which is completely in tune with the context and constraints of our target market. For this, we had senior educationists, teachers advising us in writing the specifications of the product. We also did multiple surveys to address this aspect.

On the technical side, it was imperative for us to build an architecture that was scalable, compliant with the latest tech trends and would help us work

with clients across geographies. We hired senior technologists with a product background to help us achieve it.

Apart from this, we faced and addressed challenges on the software development process side, pertaining to project management, deadlines, right resourcing to ensure minimal investment etc.

Some of these challenges are still encountered as we continue to innovate and forge ahead on the growth curve.

How do you see the growth of your brand in ďŹ ve years down the line?

Academia currently is on a tremendous growth path. And, we see exciting times ahead. Our team and partners are constantly striving toward our ambition of being the world leader in campus automation. We aim to emerge as the No.1 Student Information System/ ERP on a global stage with 2,000 delighted institution clients by 2020. These customers will ultimately be our most effective brand evangelists.

Apart from this as a company, we want to emerge as the finest recruiter brands in the country, as ultimately it is our people who will help us achieve this shared vision.â–

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Shri Raghubar Das inaugurated the summit at the Le Merdien, Delhi and launched WES 2016 Special Issue of Digital Learning magazine in the presence of Poland Ambassador Tomasz Lukaszuk.

In the School Education section, the first day was classified into various brain storming sessions including School Education: The Road Ahead, Rethinking education in the age of technology and a special discussion on whole brain functions. The other section, dedicated to Higher Learning, was classified into sessions like Technology: The Game Changer for Higher Education Scenario, International Education Initiatives: Learning & Collaboratives, Creating a framework for developing a research-ready institutions and Effective management of Transnational Education. It witnessed some of the leading lights of our school system from across India. There were also industry presentations highlighting scope of technology and its effects in the education sector. Top verticals covered during the summit comprised government, school, higher education, investors, skill and vocational training On the second day, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi deliberated on the need for skill development in the country, highlighting how despite several laws intending betterment of higher education, more participation from education field was required. A few glimpses of the educational extravaganza:

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India has emerged as an education hub globally.

It is our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government’s dream and determination to provide quality education. We are also focusing on skill development. In these two years, we have tried hard for employment oriented skill development. From the time of Gurukul to present, India is a leader in education. People present here are trying to make education more meaningful, more cultured and employment oriented.

It is important that we must have skills along with practical education.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Minority Affairs Government of India

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VISION AND MISSION

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TRANSFOMATION WITH TECHNOLOGY A tree cannot have a proper growth until it has strong roots.

This is the reason why a big question mark exists on our education system. Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has repeatedly laid stress on importance of technology and encouraged its use to the hilt. This can ensure a transparent and accountable administration. With maximum use of technology, transformation is being ensured across the world. We also need to ensure that it takes place in our country and universities.

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Inaugural Session Day One

I feel due to professional education or the private universities, there has been a lot of improvement in the education sector.

Our government will fully support private universities to strengthen the education sector.

SHRI RAGHUBAR DAS, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Jharkhand

There is pressing need to improve quality and relevance of education in our higher and technical institutions.

We invite institutions of excellence to partner and mentor, build capabilities in the existing institutions, also to open new institutions to address the huge demand in the state of Jharkhand.

Mining sector is important for India and for Poland as well. I think through cooperation with businesses of mining, we can create a momentum also for education, for technical education between two countries.

TOMASZ LUKASZUK, Ambassador, Embassy of Poland

RAJ BALA VERMA, Chief Secretary, Government of Jharkhand

We need to recruit today for 2030. We need to recruit about 26 million school teachers to provide primary education to children. We have 20 million higher education students right now. I was reading somewhere for 370 odd peon positions, there were more than 23 lakhs applications.And, I believe a lot of them were PhDs!

RAVI PANCHANANDAN, Chief Executive Officer, MeritTrac

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With everybody’s consensus that is building up, we want to build a very strong, robust structure in this country which can help in converting this demographic dividend to our advantage. We are looking forward to using technology in a big way.

R SUBRAHMANYAM, Addl. Secretary (TE), Department of Higher Education, MHRD

Day One Technology

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To reach out to country’s distant locations we will have to use mix mode of satellite communication and terrestrial transmission, the FM Radios and put the community radios right in that village, produced by their own people in native language, and teach them primary education or socially relevant themes.

We are the only PSU in education sector in India. We are also a mini Ratna company which doubled its turnover to Rs.175 crore this year. We wish to be a edu-tech company. We believe technology is not a game changer, we strongly believe it is a super game changer.

GEORGE KURUVILLA, Chairman & Managing Director, Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)

DIPTIMAN DAS, Chairman & Managing Director, Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL)

The more penetration, the higher usage of IT system, ICT, in any of your schemes or anything, the better placed you will be, the more stable you will be.

In order to bring speed, scale, sustainability, scalability until we have optimum use of ICT, we would never be able to reach out there.

JAIKANT SINGH, Head- Strategy & Program Development, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

If you don’t have telecom facilities, you are no one, you are just sitting in your own office, own cabin and just doing what you can. Telecom is unseen but it is there.

This must be recognized.

It’s there and why it is ignored because it is in a state where it can be afforded to be ignored because you know you will get it.

LT GEN (DR) S P KOCHHAR, Chief Executive Officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council

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International Education Initiatives Day One Learning and Collaborative Opportunities

In the US, about the top three skills that our CEOs say are important in people they hire, global competency figures among them. So we all realised institutions need to do something about it if we are to provide students with the competencies that they need to be able to get the jobs that they aspire to get.

EDUARDO J. PARDON, President, Miami Dade College, Miami

To perform surgery on any foreign patient here I don’t need any permission but to give education to any foreigner here I have to take hundreds of permissions. This is the state of affairs of higher education here. Please give us freedom to make globalization happen here.

DR. P. BALAKRISHNA SHETTY, Vice Chancellor, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education

Internationalisation is the process of integrating international perspectives in education. A global mindset is a pre-requisite before thinking of internationalisation. It calls for an openness for tolerance of different cultures, acceptance of their values, food habits, languages, dresses.

PROF PREM VRAT, Pro Chancellor, NorthCap University

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Nowadays we say that the quality of education is dwindling. Without generalizing, it’s true. In comparison to teachers of earlier era, today’s’ teachers have become more materialistic less of educationists. As a result, we will have to inculcate hard and dedicated efforts in our teachers.

S. B. HOSAMANI, Vice Chancellor, Rani Chennamma University, Karnataka

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Learning and Collaborative Opportunities

It’s the social, inter-cultural skills to navigate and succeed in today’s inter-connected world that any student needs to have and be there at the globally competent market.

DR. RUPA VASUDEVAN, Vice Chancellor, Rai Technology University

A great civilization has to take its normal place in the comity of nations. The process of internationalization of higher education is on. We have to be fast, productive, resourceful and committed, I mean government, the policy makers have to productive.

DR. (PROF.) ANOOP SWARUP, Vice Chancellor, Jagran Lakecity University

If we want to give world class education, the international cooperation is very much essential. We should have strength to attract good universities. We should be so strong that we attract students from developing countries.

Catering for cultural and psychological needs of foreign students that’s where we are lacking.

DR. P.B. VIDYASAGAR, Vice Chancellor, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University

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Existence of very few medical collges has led to a huge shortage of doctors. Government of India wants to fast track setting up medical colleges. Besides investment, a proper regulatory mechanism existing in a liberalised manner is needed like for land requirement. I am sure things will change now.

"Students in the east India, aspiring to be doctors are forced to approach private colleges in the west or south India. Since not everyone obviously can afford, not many students from these regions are being produced from medical colleges within these states or from the south or west. This is creating problem in entire health sector of eastern region. Jharkhand is one of the worst affected states.

K VIDYASAGAR, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education, Government of Jharkhand

Technology gave us the advance to enforce many reforms and bring about qualitative change in the systems and also in the approaches. Technology blended with academia for better outcomes, we found this is giving us great advantage. It has perfected the processes and outcomes and also enhanced the outcome based learning and made the learning more effective by using more technology.

DR. A ASHOK, Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Intermediate Education, Government of Telangana

IT is very much central to the government in Jharkhand. Not just one sector but in all sectors the IT is taking precedence. We are creating conducive climate in the state for anyone looking for investment in India to keep Jharkhand in consideration.

For IT infrastructure, we have marked land for developing IT city and creating IT startup ecosystem.

SUNIL KUMAR BARNWAL, Secretary IT & e-Governance Department, Government of Jharkhand

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Day One Creating a Framework

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Ranking’s significance is to improve the quality of educational institution.

The existing ranking systems are in fact helping the already highly ranked universities because students apply for top ranked universities.

TANKESHWAR KUMAR, Vice Chancellor, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology

Finance is as important as it may be but the other factor lack of academic leadership that’s really posing a bold problem and when our desire is to excel then that poses a bold contradiction…

Data reflects probably we are not very serious about research that’s why we are failing in world rankings.

DR DEVENDRA PATHAK, Vice Chancellor , Dr. K N Modi University, Rajasthan

The majority of contribution is now coming from the private institutions that are highly placementcentric. People will join me at my university if they are placed, not because their research papers are published in high impact international journals.

DR. SUNIL RAI, Vice Chancellor, The Assam Kaziranga University

Research comes from thinking. I don’t say people coming from outside the country are only scholars, within the country they have scholars to give better leadership to the department. They should be given the autonomy and freedom to select their own team.

PROF VPS ARORA, Vice Chancellor, Shri Venkateshwara University

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Creating a Framework Day One For Developing Research

Whether or not we are interested in the global rankings, if we need to produce universities‌we need to create an intellectual contribution. The university has to be different in creation of intellectual capital.

DR O R S RAO, Vice Chancellor, ICFAI University, Ranchi

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For India to become Vishwa Guru, the need of the hour is to invest, to calibrate, to work upon, to innovate and create model systems and frameworks whereby we can impact the higher education.

PRABHAT AGRAWAL, Chairman, Echelon Institute of Technology, Faridabad

Day One Industry Presentation

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Using technology to motivate students to improve their diversity and effective management of transnational education

If you say our universities are not doing well, how do our students do well in foreign? We have potential, just need to identify methodology where a guru and student can understand and learn from each other, get values of Indian heritage and bring back Indian pride.

A H RAJASAB, Vice Chancellor, Tumkur University

One of the most critical tools in adoption of technology in higher education and school segment in India today is about ERP for educational institutions because ERP is the nervous system for an institutional technology ecosystem around which all your components can play and this can sit right in the middle for efficient operation.

APRIT BADJATYA, CEO & MD, Academia ERP

We offer one-stop e-content for technical education for branches and for all courses. It’s a high quality digital content, exploiting technology on the visual side. We use a lot of 3-D models that industries are using. We also use all personalised devices for that.

DR. S NABI, Director, LearnEngg

We need to apply technology to reach the unreached, to reach the disadvantaged population through the development, application and evaluation of systems, techniques and aids to improve the process of human learning.

Technology brings education to people instead of bringing people to education.

DR. R KARPAGA KUMARAVEL, Professor and Head, Department of Education, Central University of Tamil Nadu

In transnational education, the reduced cost usually also sees decline in quality.

Regulatory framework is another aspect because the providing country doesn’t have any control where it is being imparted. These issues need to be sorted out in the regulatory framework.

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Industry Presentation Day One Using technology to motivate students to improve their diversity and effective management of transnational education

About transnational education, there are various serious issues like quality, ďŹ nancial part, recognition, student satisfaction. So its effective management is very important. The question arises, do we really need support from foreign institutions to promote our quality?

H L VERMA, Vice Chancellor, Jagan Nath University, Haryana

Knowledge should come from wherever it is possible and we must accept the knowledge, it maybe from other nations via trans-national agreements. And, environment must be created where they can safely embark on this exploration.

For Information Security, we have a transparent system to enable you to access your database anytime, using your own key just like pincode for debit card/credit card. With secret key pins, you make your system or solution three-layered secured so that your ERP solution is running absolutely ďŹ ne.

LATESH KJ, Vice President, Xiphias Software Technology Pvt. Ltd.

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DR. S K SALWAN, Vice Chancellor, ApeeJay Stya University, Gurgaon

Day Two Round-Table

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Fostering Growth

The main obstacle for a college in remote area is of finance. Paying capacity at ground level is not as much as we can sit here and discuss.

It’s very easy to discuss the problems at round-table conferences. We discuss the problem and leave them here only but to solve them we have to be at the ground level.

DR. SHABNAM KAUR, Vice Chancellor, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology

So far the education system is concerned, more modification is required from school level to the university level. I also think that the moral education must also be the part of school level education upto class 10th.

DR. BMK PRASAD, Principal, Dronacharya College Of Engineering

We have to think about making the life of our people better. It must be done while keeping in mind the Indian perspective. We must also focus on research and development of new products rather than buying them from the other countries.

PROF (DR) ANURANJAN MISRA, Professor & HOD, Computer Science & Engineering, Noida International University

We have a mission of promoting entrepreneurship. I always feel that all technology people and management people are pillion riding onto somebody else to get an opportunity for themselves whereas entrepreneurship is what is opening doors to them and they are able to create lot more opportunity.

DR. KAVITA GUPTA, Assistant Faculty , Entrepreneurship Development Institute Of India

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Round-Table Day Two Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Fostering Growth

Whether it’s a private college or a government college, working hours for faculties are so long that we are so exhausted that by the time to do research and publish it, it’s a long way to go for us.

DR. REENA SINGH, Associate Dean, KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad

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I see that the research and the innovation and the kind of involvement that should happen in the higher education system has not really taken root in the private universities because expectation of stakeholders that is of students, teachers, managements and administrators are changing.

YVS KUMAR, Dean-APQA Rayat Bahara University

Day Two Industry Presentation

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Higher Education & Skill Development Scenario in India: The Road Ahead

Skill development in India is going to be a challenging task because education alone can not fulfil the requirements of skilled workforce in future. Skill development must be a parallel initiative along with education. There is a potential opportunity for India to become a talent pool.

NITESH TYAGI, Head, Training, Mahendra Skills Training and Development Pvt. Ltd.

India itself is a huge market and with the passing of GST, the economic unification has been assured.

It will throw up large opportunities.

To drive that, essentially we need to have skills in higher education.

SUNIL K CHATURVEDI, Chief Executive Officer, Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC)

It is important to ensure good mix of students from gender standpoint, from geographic standpoint and also from various strata of interest levels in the industry standpoint.

SUPREETH NAGARAJU, Head – Education, West, South India & Sri Lanka – Adobe Systems

Time and again we are told that securing good marks in your board examination virtually guarantees your berth in higher education but it is not the case as always. A student has to worry about two more factors, timely result and accurate result.

AMEYA DONGARE, Team Lead, Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd.

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From Education to Employment Day Two Establishing Industry Partnerships that Help Students Take Right Steps into the Real World

Our students should not only be the jobseekers, they should also be the job providers.

If this is so, then innovation and incubation centres are to be setup with the industries in all the institutes along with IITs and NITs.

DR. RAJAT GUPTA, Director, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar

Perception of student is, what value does my degree hold?

Is it recognised or not recognised? Am I gonna be hired because I have a piece of university paper or not? So, yes, it gets your foot in the door but eventually if you can’t deliver, if you don’t have skills, you are not gonna stay in that company.

I request all industrialists that you must help the society or you must help the curriculum preparing. So that these things can be utilized by students, so that there is a bridge between the universities, the industry and the government.

MARC POULIN, Assistant Professor, School of Graduate Studies & Director of MBA and MITGov Program, Canadian University, Dubai

DR B B KALIWAL, Vice Chancellor, Davangere University

At GTU, our vision is to make a hub of research, technology and entrepreneurship. To meet with our vision, we have varieties of initiatives on our campus right from international collaboration with the leading universities in North America, Europe and all other part of globe.

We have collaboration with all major leading associations including chamber of commerce, CII and FICCI.

The education’s aim should be to emphasize learning power not earning power.

Education should be for well being not well off. Instead of depending on industry for employment opportunities, can we ask industries to discharge their corporate social responsibility in a more meaningful way?

DR. INDRAJIT PATEL, Dean, Gujarat Technical University

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DR R VENKATA RAO, Vice Chancellor, National Law School of India University

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Establishing Industry Partnerships that Help Students Take Right Steps into the Real World

Are we making value plus people or value less people.

If a person is good enough than the person will find out the ways, how to get self employed or how to be an entrepreneur or how to be employed in one or other organisations.

DR S P MISHRA, Vice Chancellor, Sanskriti University

At University, what we have made the vision is “Make in University” concept wherein we will be giving the raw products into the finished course to our students who are employable.

DR SHALINI GUPTA, Vice Chancellor, Mandsaur University

NSE and CBSE have joined hands together at 9th and 10th level and at 11th and 12th level.

All NSE certified financial market professional modules are integrated into the curriculum of CBSE. So that the students after class 12th, when they come out, they have a choice either to go for a job or they can go for higher education.

G C SHARMA, Head Financial Education School & University, NSE

Whatever excellence we want to bring in education particularly in India, the requirement is giving importance to psychology of child. If one mind is improved, both conscious and subconscious mind, everything goes very well.

M N RAJU, Chairman, MNR Group of Institution, Telangana

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Mind the Skill Gap Day Two Arming Students with the Skills They Will Own Tomorrow

Additional skill acquisition program of our institute is widely accepted. And our students who have completed the skill training program and are having certiďŹ cate for it, they get maximum opportunity than any other institute.

K ANAND, MANAGING TRUSTEE, Adi Shankara Group of Institution

If you wanted to acquire knowledge in different spheres it is important to nurture creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. These are the three pillars apart from the value system imparted to students. We need to revise our curriculum addressing these issues, then only we will be able to contribute and we will become one of the innovative nations.

DR H PURUSHOTTAM, Chairman & Managing Director, National Research Development Corporation

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Why anyone acquires a skill? Whether a person upgrades his skills or a new skill but what for? For getting a job in case if he is fresher or a starter or to improve his livelihood opportunity if he is in mid of career?

DR R C SRIVASTAVA, Vice Chancellor, Rajendra Agriculture University

Day Two Mind the Skill Gap

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India is such a large country. Farmers are of different categories. How can we convey the latest information, the latest advisory to them. I think we need to exploit Information Communication Technology to fullest possible.

PROF A K SINGH, Vice Chancellor, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya

If we look at our demographic dividend, 65% of the total population would be between 15-29 years of age in 2020. How will we really take care of this population -- The youngistan population. The only solution is which we talk about giving skills to everybody.

DR SATISH C SHARMA, Chairman & Director General, Maharaja Group of Colleges, Udaipur

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The Debate Day Two MOOC’s Will replace Traditional Direct Student Learning

No, one solution is the optimal solution in today’s world.

MOOC’s and the traditional format of teaching should coexist. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have a very great role to play in equity, considering the demographic dividend of our country.

PROF PRADIPTA BANERJI, Director, IIT Roorkee

If we want to give world class education, the international cooperation is very much essential. We should have strength to attract good universities. We should be so strong that we attract students from developing countries.

Catering for cultural and psychological needs of foreign students that’s where we are lacking.

PROF ASHUTOSH GUPTA, Director School of Science, U P Rajarshi Tandon Open University

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We must have clarity about whom we are talking? Are we talking about the urban or the rural population? When we talk about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), what content are we going to provide them?

That is one of the major questions.

PROF CHANDRAKALA PADIA, Vice Chancellor, MGS University, Rajasthan

Which is better, online learning or traditional university coaching?

I feel both should supplement each other.

It’s impossible that one can replace other.

We shouldn’t even dream of having that type of situation where complete university education is replaced by online learning classes.

DR M RAMAMOORTY, Chancellor, K L University, Andhra Pradesh

ASIA’S FIRST MONTHLY MAGAZINE ON e-GOVERNANCE

ASIA’S FIRST MONTHLY MAGAZINE ON THE ENTERpRISE OF HEALTHCARE

ASIA’S FIRST MONTHLY MAGAZINE ON ICT IN EduCATION

A quALITY MAGAZINE ON BANkING ANd FINANCE

Day One

FELICITATING THE FINEST EDU LEADERS AT 7th WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT

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Ryan Pinto, CEO, Ryan International Group of Institutions

Dr S C Khuntia, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Dr Ravi Gupta Editor-in-Chief felicitating Edu Leaders

Prajodh Rajan, Co-Founder, EuroKids International Limited

Monica Malhotra Kandhari, MD, MBD Group Dr Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, Rayat Bahra University

Prof. Vinay Kumar Pathak, Vice Chancellor, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University Prof. I. K. Bhat, Director, Malaviya National Institute of Technology

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Dr Prafulla Agnihotri, Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli

Beas Dev Ralhan, Co-Founder & CEO, Next Education

Prof. (Dr) Rajat Gupta, Director, NIT, Srinagar

Prof. A. H. Rajasab, Vice Chancellor, Tumkur University Baba Pradeep Madhok, MD, Dalimss Sunbeam Educomp Ltd

Dr. Narendra S. Chaudhari, Director, VNIT, Nagpur

Dr R. C. Srivastava, VC, Rajendra Agriculture University

Prof. Vijay Kant Verma, VC, AISECT University

Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice Chancellor , Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology

Anil Goyal, Director, Mexus Education

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Dr P B Vidyasagar, VC, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University

Dr. R Venkata Rao, VC, National Law School of India University

Dr. Gurdeep Singh, VC, Vinoba Bhave University

Prof. S B Hosamani, VC, Rani Chennamma University

Dr. Rupa Vasudevan, VC, Rai Technology University

Prof. H L Verma, Vice Chancellor, Jagan Nath University

Prof. VPS Arora, VC, Shri Venkateshwara University

Prof. B A Chopade, Vice Chancellor, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

Dr. Devendra Pathak, Vice Chancellor, Dr K N Modi University

Dr. O R S Rao, Vice Chancellor, ICFAI University, Ranchi

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Dr. P Balakrishna Shetty, Vice Chancellor, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education

Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh, Vice Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University

Prof. A K Singh, VC, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya

Dr. Sunil Rai, Vice Chancellor, The Assam Kaziranga University

Shantanu Prakash, CMD, Educomp

Prof. Chandrakala Padia, VC, MGS University

Prof. Prem Vrat, Pro Chancellor, NorthCap University

Dr. S K Salwan, Vice Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University

Prof. Pradipta Banerji, Director, IIT Roorkee

Prof. Arvind Dhar, Vice Chancellor, NIILM University

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orld Education Summit, which aims to felicitate the top innovators and entrepreneurs in the education ecosystem, marking the big change caused by their innovative works was the perfect occasion to recognise the who’s who of the education world at one of the premier platforms that draws finest thinkers and decision-makers.

Rajesh Aggrawal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, N K Sahu, Economic Adviser, MHRD, Government of India, Prof Pradipta Banerji, Director, IIT Roorkee and Puneet Vasu, Special Advisor, KHDA presenting World Education Awards

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SCHOOL EDUCATION

When School Education Matters the Most

The other section of the education summit, dedicated to the School Education, witnessed various school principals, owners, and other stake holders discussing best practices, suggestions, and upcoming challenges and their possible solutions suitable for the new generations.

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School Education Day One School Education: The Road Ahead

The NIOS is the largest school system in the world.

We are also partnering with government of India for MOOCS (Massive Online Open Courses), where online programme will be available for anyone interested. If desired, they can take exams.

We also have life enrichment programmes for those who wish to learn for their joy, there is no need to take any certification.

Technological development has doubtlessly done a revolutionary change in the entire world but the way the technology has grown, the child’s mind has not grown.

We are now interested in producing the quantitative result than quality.

MVV Prasada Rao, Director, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

Dr Rajesh Kumar, Director, Academics & Vocational Training, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)

Industry Presentation

Industry Presentation

Differentiated learning helps teachers to identify students’ needs in classroom itself and address them based on their learning styles and levels and track progress. To meet the 21st century students’ needs we need Closed Loop Instruction System. With learning platforms of tomorrow, we can in effect improve the learning process and this could lead to higher achievements.

Sameer Ahmad, Co-Founder, CEO, LearnOn Technology Solutions

Industry Presentation We want you to think about a new concept of surveillance which is the angle of auditing CCTV. We want you to audit not suffer. The recent major terror attacks had commonality of being covered by CCTV. Avoid suffering, start auditing CCTV. Have a standarised system of reporting incidents so that you derive intelligence out of any incident.

Gautam Goradia, CEO, COM-SUR

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We are essentially looking at what is that idea spark that a kid has to bring out. That’s why we call it innovation. We want to bring out that spark of the idea that every kid has in him.

Sandeep Senan, Founder & Director, BiBox

Day One School Education

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Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Special Discussion on Whole Brain Education

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We have tried to integrate Educomp’s revolutionary product -Smart STEM in school education system in an integrated and applied approach. Smart STEM is a cohesive learning paradigm and deals with the real issue related to the learner and learning context which is far away from rot or didactic learning.

Jacqueline Anthony, Educomp Solutions

Rethinking Education in the age of technology how education can be executed inspite of technology.

Technology may not replace a teacher but enable him or her in classroom.

Chandrashekhar DP, CEO, Jain Group of Schools (Moderator)

The latest research around the world no longer talks about right and left brain.

It talks about the whole brain teaching and learning. So it’s historical and they say there is a connection between the two. It’s now about whole brain teaching approach in teaching and learning.

Dr Vandana Lulla, Director, Podar Group of International Schools, Mumbai

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To introduce technology, first we need to give schools autonomy. It’s very important for students. I am running green school, using latest technology. The entire school is driven by students. It is most sustainable, affordable. The operating cost is less than 70 percent in normal school. There are no sick leaves, 100 percent teacher retention, and community involvement.

Virendra Rawat, Founder, Green School Initiative

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School Education Day One

If we really want our students to take responsibility for their learning and to circumvent all the issues mentioned so far, we need to be able to present students with real life situations to solve.

It doesn’t matter which subject area they are working on. Because then we motivate them to find solutions.

GUSTAV JACOBUS GROPP, Principal, Oakridge International School, Hyderabad

Early Childhood and Common Core: The Impact on Young Children and the Opportunities for Expansion in the Preschool space

It is not just about the curriculum, it’s not about what we teach ABC, colours, shapes, counting, rhymes. It’s about how we stimulate the child’s interest to come to school to be engaged in learning process.

We are doing work for the skill development of a child, we are preparing children for the next level/senior secondary school level. When we talk about quality of pre school it means infrastructure, activities. We need to create an online platform also for teacher training, we have created in our system because if we have number of branches in particular city then we can conduct teacher training frequently.

AMOL ARORA, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Shemrock & Shemford Group of Schools (Moderator)

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S K RATHOR, Founder Director, Sanfort Group of Schools

Day One School Education

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We invest in early stage companies, we do it across four sectors and five countries.

We have done investment in over 90 companies, investing over 100 million dollars. In India, we are very active in education. Regulation by definition means to regulate not control, with the new education policy I am worried as an institutional investor.

ABHAY GARG, Associate Director, Acumen India

If the standard Preschool ratio is 10:12, each and every child gets a good 2-6 minutes of individual attention time. We need to think what kind of quality teachers we need to have. What kind of training we have.

PRITAM KUMAR AGRAWAL, Director, Hello Kids

Any investment institution will feel much more comfortable investing in a brand which has ethos and clarity about how to take it on a longer path with the surety that innovative ingredient in a system will counter all kinds of pressure from formal schools dolling out their own preschools.

DEVEN KHULLAR, Chairman, Brats n Cuties

Maple Bear is a Canadian preschool elementary chain.

It’s a global brand presented in many countries. Preschool domain is so important that the society is placed on us.

This is the first time the child asserts himself in outer world with self control, independently.

HAZEL SRIMONI, Managing Director, Maple Bear

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How to maintain quality in preschool is a very big challenge because the investor makes the investment and he expects to make profit from the beginning itself. Quality of the preschool can be defined with effective implementation of curriculum and quality of teachers who must be stimulating and supportive.

A S GANESH, Founder & Managing Director, Smartkidz Educare India Pvt Ltd

If we use some data to understand our students, we can make our teaching more personal and more engaging and we can raise the outcome of those learners. So the benefits of using data to understand not just the potential but attainment of progress of our students, is the key.

Special WorkShop On Using Data to Support Teaching and Learning in Classroom

JAMES NEILL, International Director, GL Education

Improving Efficiency, Operation & ROI

Industry Presentation We have developed Portable and Micro Skill Laboratories for mathematics and sciences.

It is antidote to traditional approach of taking child to lab in a school. It is being in a lab itself in classroom. So everyday, every concept can be taught in the lab atmosphere with hands on experience.

We can inculcate habit of experimental learning in classroom itself.

NISCHAL NARAYANAM, Founder & Mentor, nischals

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Day One School Education

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Industry Presentation

Curiosity, imagination are very important for learning. For learning, it becomes imperative when students understand this part that they are learning something not because they are forced to learn but because they love to learn or do things differently that’s where students are more than happy learning on their own.

NIKHIL DHYANI, Techno Commercial Manager-Education, Redington India Ltd

Industry Presentation

Robomate has a two-way use.

One is student actually uses it before the exam. It’s a revision tool. Second, it’s a platform where there are so many components for institutions to use as an administrative system.

Hence, there was access and every activity was mapped like attendance, class performance, test performance.

DR CHHAYA SHASTRI, Director, Robomate+

If we have school owners here, obviously everybody has got reason to invest in technology. There are many schools who will take up this and ensure they have it in the class. But where they fail is because they haven’t trained or empowered their teachers. Unless it’s done, it (technology) will remain a very fancy article in your classroom.

DR D USHA REDDY, CEO & Sr Principal, Meridian Schools, Hyderabad

If you leave the children in a room with a set of books, research proves they will learn faster than if a teacher is there. They learn faster than us. Trust them, as you know you start picking up things, when you know there is nobody to help you.

SHALINI NAMBIAR, Vice President, GEMS Education (Moderator)

Expectation from technology will always be higher...technology should not be blamed for destroying values. But even if we try to stop this thing we will not be able to stop. Technology is only way to do things today.

Technology should not be our masters, we should master technology.

ABDUL JALEEL PERLA, Principal, Aliya Senior Secondary School, Kasaragod

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School Education Day Two Visualising the Future of Learning in Schools

Considering the kind of schools that we have in India and variety of the schools coming under various board, it is important for us to have a broader perspective of what education is and what learning is? So, while talking about technology, I have to think in terms of how do I engage that last child who does not have a computer at home.

REVATHI SRINIVASAN, Principal, Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane (Moderator)

Schooling must be a blend of values and technology.

GITA SHARMA, Principal, Shanti Asiatic School, Vastral, Ahmedabad

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If we provide “In Service Motivational Programme” for the teachers, it will be beneficial for the teaching learning process.

RAGINI BHATNAGAR, Principal, Modern Defence Sen Sec School, Jaipur

Day Two School Education

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Succeeding in Change Management Managing Technological Change for Schools of the New Millennium

Industry Presentation I have been in education sector for almost 22 years.

I am working with schools around the world, 750 at the moment. What makes me want to do my job and get ready for every morning is making the difference at these schools.

JAMES NEILL, International Director, GL Education

The role of teacher is heading for a marked change as it was possibly five to 10 years ago and it has already started to change with the advent of technology.

ARIJIT GHOSH, Head - School Programmes, British Council

We need to have a single education Board, change the way India changes by equipping teachers not just be occupied with completing curriculum but also being observant to child’s growth.

Parents need to desist habit of making kids finish their unrealized dreams.

RAJEEV GUPTA, Director, Golden Bells Pre School

Laptops are still most creative machines. It’s much easier to code on a Laptop whereas tablets are also eventually growing, hybrid product should come into market. I feel virtual learning and augmented reality are set to change concept of learning in future.

ARUNABH SINGH, Director, Nehru World School

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School Education Day Two

There needs to be proper allocation of time management visa-vis use of technology and learned skills by students. While training and development programmes for teachers are required, teaching moral values and life skills to students are also important.

ANAMIKA ANJARIA, Managing Director, Rangoli Group of Institutes

Round Table Discussion Investments in Dubai by Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Dubai

There is more digitalization and digital learning helping our children to develop and learn much better way up to parental gratiďŹ cation. Foreign schools operating in India appear more advanced in digitalization than our Indian schools.

S P AGGARWAL, Chairperson Advisory, Presidium & Mothers pride

Technology-Based Responses and Solutions

Industry Presentation Robomate+ is a cloud based learning app which is used by more than 8 lakh students across the country today.

This is basically a fully integrated learning app. It contains video lectures, tests, analytics and E-books in this app

BRIJESH KARIA, Business Head, Robomate +

Industry Presentation

It’s an interesting time for everyone to work at opportunities for investing in the education sector in Dubai. Dubai has a unique education landscape. We have approximately 183 nationalities studying in over 175 private schools. We have an average growth rate of anywhere between 6 to 7 percent in education sector.

PUNEET VASU, Advisor, Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Dubai

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Today, child safety or child security is one of the important aspects. Government of India and various state governments have done some good work for education sector in India. But as far as safety of children is concerned, a lot of incidents have happened but we are not able to recognize where actually the fault is.

SAI KUMAR, Product Head of Mobile DVR, HIKVISION India

Day Two School Education

Let’s talk about the National Policy on Education 2016. It talks about how technology has to be integrated into the classrooms, be it the rural school or government school or private school. Role of technology is very very important.

DR INDU KHETARPAL, Principal, Salwan Public School, New Delhi (Moderator)

Technology has aided us in entirely changing the assessment patterns.

KAVITA SANGHVI, Principal, MET Rishikul Vidyalaya, Mumbai

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I am yet to ďŹ nd solution wherein I get real time data of GPS tracking. I am contacting many organisers and lots of demos and pilot projects are done in my school regarding the technology which ensures the security of children commuting through the school buses.

RASHMI MALIK, Principal, Delhi International School, New Delhi

T PECK is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Content knowledge will be provided to student through technology. If pedagogy allows you to teach through technology then you must use the technology as much as you can.

KRUTARTH JOSHI, Principal, Little Flower School, Dahod

In the inclusive growth model of real world situation, students need to learn. So we need to see that how we use technology. In addition to this, we need to introduce the technology to schools in such a way that it is accessible to the poorest one also.

R K TRIVEDI, Principal, O P Jindal School, Raigarh

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Since long the CBSE has introduced the CCE pattern, where they have given permission to have multiple tests and on the basis of all the test, teachers can judge the performance of a student. In technology and software, CBSE has not provided any pattern but it is expected that very soon it will be introduced.

DR REETA SAXENA, Principal, Scholar Mission School, Kanpur

BrandED: Building a Successful Educational Brand

Industry Presentation

When you think of brand, it basically is a perception in your mind for quality of a product or a service.

This perception comes from the set of expectations you have. How consistently that brand delivers as per your expectations, sets its brand value.

ANKUR GUPTA, CEO, Campus Mall

In the education context, most of the brands are saying the same things, easy offering very similar and the communication is same. Both content and form are getting more and more difficult to differentiate and there are often used words like “All Round Development” or “Holistic Development”.

PRAJODH RAJAN, Co-founder & CEO, Euro Kids (Moderator)

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All round development is very much part of our brand and that’s in our logo too. That is something we actually believe. We don’t think that we are a school that educates its children just for tests, just for reports, just for assessments or just for the percentage, not at all. We believe that school is a place for lifelong learning.

RYAN PINTO, CEO, Ryan International Group of Institutions

Day Two School Education

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This is the only industry where we have 240 million brand ambassadors, the students and their parents.

So, I think, as long as you are able to focus on inputs and continue to do the kind of thing that you stand for as an institution, you will be able to build your name and brand.

VINESH MENON, Dy CEO, Global Discovery Schools

Brand is a promise, brand is a legacy, brand is a faith, it is very important to be consistent and to adapt to change to increase your brand value. Once you are a brand, it’s very important for you to be cautious about each and every aspect of school management and school functioning.

ANIRUDH GUPTA, CEO, DCM Group of Schools

We, as school educators, are involved in dealing with human beings and small kids. If anything goes wrong, we are spoiling the whole life of a kid and if everything goes fine, definitely we are creating the personalities. So, branding of any educational institution takes a long period. It depends on the quality of the education provided in the school.

ABHA MEGHE, Director, Meghe Group of Schools

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School Education Day Two Shattering Traditional Frameworks: Competency based

Industry Presentation Competency is a component of a broader skill. A skill would be split into sub skills.

When we talk about competency, generally each learner will pick up a sub skill, master that sub skill and then move on to the next skill and ďŹ nally acquire the whole skill set.

If you look at classrooms of tomorrow how are they gonna be fundamentally different from the classrooms of today, this space is going to get more and more interesting... What we believe at Pearson is how do you make this entire continuum of the digital learning, virtual learning, self learning and the skills come together to deliver superior learner outcomes.

S G RAMANANDA, Vice President, K12 Inside Services, Pearson Education

DR NEETA BALI, Head, Kasiga School, Dehradun (Moderator)

Knowledge, skills and right attitude, if all these three things are clubbed together, then we can really have competency tested. We are slowly moving away from the traditional setup where we would just judge a child from the way he memorised the stuff towards the competency based education.

ARTI CHOPRA, Principal, Amity International School, Gurgaon

When we are talking about the competency, we have to look into the perspective of our competitors also.

We have to see what particular skill I do have but my competitor doesn’t have.

DR RAGHUVEER Y V, Principal, G D Goenka International School, Surat

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Competency is what I want to do and what I can do? To match with what is required and matching the need is what competency is all about.

DR PRIYANKA MEHTA, Principal, Amity International School, New Delhi

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TOP LEADERS AT WORLD EDUCATION EXPO Top leaders from central government and state government visited the expo section of the 7th World Education Summit 2016 being participated by 50 exhibitors from India and Middle East and UK.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Shri Raghubar Das visited the exhibitors’ stalls and interacted with them.

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Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi visited the exhibitors’ stalls where some representatives explained about their products during interaction with him.

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Campify connecting

STUDENTS TO THEIR WORLD

Campify App connects students to their college community. Be it academic information or student clubs, it offers a bouquet of services on a single platform while engaging students socially via Q and A forums and instant messenger, shares Divya Goyal, Co-Founder, Campify, in an interaction with Elets News Network (ENN)

and ethical issues. We don’t wish students miss out important information due to distraction caused by unrelated data.

It’s time to have something better, something easier, something smarter.

Tell us about your company. What drove you to launch this Startup?

Ans. Tushar Goyal, my co-founder and husband, and I were jointly running NZT Solutions, a mobile app development company. We wanted to shift our operations from services to a product. We reviewed several ideas before finalising Campify.

Campify is a one-stop destination for students connecting them to their college community for information and interaction. The Campify App has everything on a single platform - academic information to student clubs and from job interviews to social activities. It engages students via forums, discussion groups and instant messenger.

In the age of WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook, how does Campify offer a distinct experience to student fraternity?

We intend facilitating things for professional purpose, others seem primarily aiming social interaction.

They lack key features required for the students and presently the information is spread disproportionately via these media, thus raising many privacy

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How is Beta version launched in 20 premier NITs different from the Alpha version launched in NIT-Kurukshetra on April 16?

In the Alpha version launched at NIT, Kurukshetra, the key features were notice board, academic information, events and campus news.

We then received several suggestions and ideas for improvement from students. We brainstormed on these ideas and suggestions for over a month and built several wireframes for a/b testing. In the Beta version, we improved the app look, enhanced UX (User experience) and added some new features like Crowdsourcing, Q & A Forum, Buy & Sell, Instant Messenger and Alumni Connect.

Do you have any plans to take Campify to IITs, IIMs or other prominent universities?

Yes, we are planning to take Campify to IITs, IIMs, and other prominent universities. Our goal is to go live in over 100 colleges by August 2017.

With a huge annual influx of students from smaller cities, who don’t have much technical exposure, what relief Campify can offer to them?

Campify is a very intuitive mobile app.70% students in India use smartphones and these students have some knowledge of technology. Via user onboarding and tutorials, they can easily understand how the app will work. We also have a dedicated customer support team which is available 24 X7 to support them.n

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THE 8th WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT 2017 BAHRAIN

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World Education Summit, Bahrain Bahrain, the leader in GCC in human capital development, is focusing on providing quality educational services to the students, developing an effective education system and using ICT for education. At the same time, expansion is taking place in Baharain in implementing the initiatives of the National Project to Develop Education and Training to cater country’s developmental needs.

In this context, Elets Technomedia, in association with the government establishment in Bahrain, is organizing the 8th edition of World Education Summit-Bahrain in March 2017. The three day global conclave on education will see participation of Thinkers and Edu Leaders from Arab region & across the globe.

Objectives Elets 8th World Education Summit- Bahrain 2017 will act as a platform for knowledge sharing amongst the thought leaders, educational experts & industry leaders to discuss and deliberate upon various aspects of education to create an effective knowledge based society.

Participation From ★ Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Bahrain ★ Policy Makers from the World of Education

Topics

★ Schools & Universities from Bahrain & from across MENA Region

★ School Education

★ Schools & Universities from Across the Globe

★ Higher Education

★ Industry Leaders

★ ICT for Education

★ Global Educational Leaders

★ Vocational Education & Skill Development

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