IMPARTING A VISIONARY EDUCATION

Kriti Anand | Business Connect

Women are now excelling in all fields of business and life. They are proving themselves at every step of the way. Naina Jain, a science graduate from IILM, University of Bradford, has proved that whatever women put their minds to, they can excel in. She became the Additional Secretary of MD International School, Bijnor at an exceptionally young age of twenty four. In her year-long tenure at school, she has skillfully implemented the vision of MD International. Her contribution to the growth and development of the school has been immense. She helped to broaden its vision as well as modernize the infrastructure with her innovative mindset.

A Look at the School

MD International is a dream come true for many parents at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. It is the brainchild of Mr. S.K. Jain, a well-known industrialist-turned-philanthropist, and the head of a renowned business group. The flagships of his business group include Mohit Paper Mills Ltd. and Jain Distillery. The school is dedicated to his late wife Mrs. Manorma Devi. It is functioning under the aegis of Manorma Devi Memorial Charitable Trust.

It has been a long cherished desire of the people of Bijnor to have a complete school that can provide a matching environment to compete with the big town institutions of Delhi and Dehradun. MDIS is fulfilling the dreams of the people of Bijnor, and is all set to stand up to their expectations.

Naina Jain Additional Secretary M D International School, Bijnor

The school is ranked Bijnor’s number one co-ed day school in the EW India School Rankings 2018-19. This K-12 school is CBSE-affiliated and has 2,982 students and 105 teachers on its muster rolls. Infrastructure facilities include smart classrooms, well-equipped labs, dance, art and craft rooms, indoor gymnasium, multipurpose ground and electromagnetic shooting range.

Over the past decade, there have been a number of changes in the education space that have revamped the landscape of the industry.

Institutions are making lots of efforts to customize the students’ experiences and are changing their processes to become more student-centric. This trend is bound to increase manifold in the future as academic structures, processes, and institutions are set to be further transformed by emerging technologies.

But now most parents want children to have the best possible global education with greater exposure, something that they may not have been able to get themselves.

MD International is providing all this to students and their concerned parents. Within five years of its establishment, MDIS has attained its full capacity of students of around 3000. Moreover, the school has received many awards and recognitions for its pursuit of academic, co-curricular and sports education excellence from several organizations including the British Council, Education World, Education today, Brainfeed, AKS, Asia One and so on.

Her Journey as a Woman

As a woman, Naina has her own views about the struggles women have to face in man’s world, and how to overcome them. She reiterates how most of the businesswomen who have attended networking events can relate to this scenario: you walk into a crowded seminar and can count the number of women present there on one hand. Naina believes that remaining true to yourself and finding your own voice are the keys to rising above preconceived expectations. Women should never confer to a man’s idea of what a leader should look like. She states that, “There are presumptions that you live off yours family’s reputation, but the most important part is you are there. I am more than willing to put in the work to create my own space and also it’s important to have reality check on your own capabilities as they help to grow and learn.”

It is now clear that women have equal capabilities to attempt and to work, but the culture and society have suppressed women and bound them to domesticity. However, times are changing, and men and women now cooperate in various areas of life. Progress and career achieved by women are not given to them on the basis of sympathy; it is a matter of struggle, and added to it is the struggle against gender discrimination or distinction. Having a career encourages women to have strong wills and a different focus, which were not a demand for women earlier. Burden and responsibility of a female leader or other career women are huge. Women usually not only have a career, but also the responsibility to be a housewife at home. Such responsibility, indeed, is not imposed upon men.

Naina has been recognized for her efforts to bring about a change in the social and educational system at a young age. She was awarded the Best Young Director of the Year Award (Below 40 years) by GECL, and the Most Promising Young Woman Award for Excellence in Women Entrepreneur category by Global Leader Foundation in 2018.

Futuristic Ideas for the Future of the Education System

Naina’s familiarity with relevant technological development has brought to the MD International School development and modernization.

Artificial Intelligence and robotic process automation are capable of speeding up production, ensuring better quality control and, ultimately, increasing company revenues by many hundred percent. Internet and AI are already familiar to most of us. But the future will take them even farther.

She states that Cloud Storage can be used to store data and use the built-in data labelling service to label our training data by applying classification, object detection, and entity extraction, etc., for images, videos, audio, and text. The labelled data can also be imported to AutoML and used to train a model directly.

DevOps and agile development, new-generation processes and techniques that work hand in hand in developing, testing and distributing software of all types, have been in the IT business news continually for about the last half-dozen years. It’ll become harder to ignore the database. It’s not static and it can’t be done some of the time. The whole purpose is to change and evolve over time. DevOps is about identifying friction that is slowing down software.

Her recommendation is to start with completely understanding what the application needs to achieve for the business: future education system will be unleashed with the advent of a standardized rapid courseware-builder and a single point global distribution system. Technology can often be a barrier to teaching and learning. Naina believes that Cloud will go a long way in removing this barrier, and that the future of technology in education is Cloud.