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Ambitious plan to promote Indian education abroad New Delhi, April 18 The Ed.CIL is targeting a growth of 200 per cent in the exports of Indian Education in the coming academic year. The target is to bring around 1,500 foreign students in India through Ed.CIL. Besides, the emphasis has been given to the Indian institutes of higher education as global centers of learning and raising their profile in the target countries. Presently, the target countries are Asian (SAARC, Middle East and South Asia) and African countries, which have been identified as the potential markets for the same. For this project, the Ed.CIL would act as a ‘Single Window Agency’ to offer education to the foreign students in India. The Ed.CIL would also bring 25 additional institutes under its program for promoting Indian Education abroad. According to the Chairman & Managing Director, Ed.CIL, Vs Pandey, “India today is one of the frontline nations in information technology industry with the third largest reservoir of scientific and technical manpower. There are some of the best institutes in India, which are recognised globally for their quality.” He said that the tertiary levels in India offers a wide range of courses in the field of engineering, medicines, agriculture, management, humanities and social sciences, bio-technologies, and space technologies. |
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SCHOOL BUZZ Together we have to help our children grow into well-integrated, emotionally secure adults. We have to ensure that the school and home environments work in tandem with each other for the well-being of the child. This sentiment found voice at the parent orientation programme held recently by Amity International School, Noida. The function was held for the benefit of parents of children who had just stepped into nursery. As a parent one goes through quite a few changes with one’s son or daughter. Now, here were parents taking the first step with their little angels, embarking on a journey that entailed facing the rigours of formal education. This could well be one of their biggest challenges yet. The school greeted its new batch of little ones and their parents with a melodious rendering by Mrs Mankotia’s Choir comprising KG and Class I children. The Principal, Mrs Mohina Dar, welcomed the new entrants into the Amity family. She apprised the parents of the school’s success in diverse fields. She termed it the result of Amity encouraging students to put their best foot forward. She encouraged parents to actively establish contact with the school and the teachers. She said two-way communication would be conducive for giving the best to the child in terms of education and progress in all areas of life. There was a big round of applause for Mrs Dar, when she said that at Amity each child was thought of as a unique individual. She said it would be ensured that every child was encouraged to think, to dream, to observe, to imagine and to grow. She said educating the child was a joint venture undertaken in an atmosphere geared towards tapping the child’s potential. The Chairperson, Dr Amita Chauhan, gave an insight about the holistic system of education followed in the school for the all-round development of the child. She endeared herself to the audience when she talked of her own anxieties and growing confidence as a parent. “Trust the child, the school and your abilities as parents”, she implored, adding, “Just as you have chosen the right school we have chosen the right set of parents. The Head Mistress, Mrs Roopma Singh, focused on the objectives and holistic thrust of education that the school offered in terms of curriculum and child-friendly co-curricular activities as well. She reiterated that this gave total impetus in creating a genius out of every child. The Co-ordinator, Mrs Shivani Khanna, familiarized eager parents with the activities to be taken up by the new entrants. KG students candidly recounted their joyous experiences in nursery. Supremely confident, they talked about computer classes, three-dimensional activities, starch and clay modelling, linguaphone, reading room and stories, karate, baking splash pool, enacting the Ramlila. “These activities of mine have made me shine, made me shine, made me shine all the time”, they sang. Next, all nursery teachers were introduced to the parents. Then followed an hour of healthy interaction between the parents and Dr Rajni Arya, Director of the Amity Institute of Allied and Behavioural Sciences. She urged parents to be firm, fair and friendly in dealing with the child. She fielded questions from parents, putting their doubts and anxieties at rest. The function ended with a unique rapport having been built between the school and the parents.
New session celebrations at Silverline Students and staff of the Silverline Public School celebrated the first day of the new session with gaiety. Colourful balloons and paper flowers decorated the school premises. Students put up dances, drama and a Saraswati Vandana. Awards were given to teachers for their performance.
Amity Gurgaon celebrates annual day Senior Students of Amity International School, Gurgaon celebrated their first annual day at the Air Force Auditorium. The evening, which was attended by parents and guests, began with ceremonial lighting of the lamp followed by Saraswati Vandana. The students put up Sadhbhavana, an orchestra, Navras- flavours of life touching the various aspects of life from love, warmth, revenge and compassion. The Guest of Honour, Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath, PVSM, AVSM speaking on the occasion said, “professional competence, character and courage, both moral and physical are the 3C’s that Amity enriches its students with, for which the full credit goes to the teachers of this schools as the formative years tread the path in course of life”. Mr. S K Chaturvedi, Executive Director, Power Grid Corporation Ltd., was the Chief Guest and lauded the efforts of the Amitians. Ms. Neeti C Kaushik, Vice Principal presented the annual report. Input by Smriti Kak Ramachandran |
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PRINCIPALSPEAK Words can win or words can antagonise. They have tremendous power to determine relationships with people in the world as well as shape destinies. Words have the charisma to spellbind people, to woo them, to endear them, encourage and inspire them or scar them for life and break them. Thus we need to weigh our words before we utter them. We need to carefully choose what we say and how we say rather than say what we choose. Spoken words cannot be retrieved and thus should be selected with care. A farmer once slandered his neighbour. Realising his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask forgiveness. The preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the centre of the town. The farmer did as he was told. Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn’t as the feathers had all blown away. When he returned with an empty bag, the preacher said, “The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather easily but cannot retrieve them, so be careful in choosing your words.” We should think before we call a person an idiot, fool or other derogatory names. At that moment he may choose to brush away, ignore or quietly wallow the slander, but somewhere in his heart the words will continue to trouble him, hurt his self-esteem and maybe even breed hatred for you. One negative word can unleash a chain of negativities and cause great harm. On the other hand positive words, however simple they may be, can work miracles. A little boy named Dalkoff loved writing but he never received any encouragement. He lost his ambition to become a writer. When he was in class eight, his English teacher asked the class to write a story. As she walked around, she paused at his table and after a few minutes remarked, “You are good.” At once the boy’s spirit lifted and he experienced a new confidence. The three words lighted up his life and inspired him through the thick and thin of his career as a writer. They had miraculously changed the course of his life. Not only the words, but also the manner in which you say them endear you to people and add to your charisma. This helps in achieving friendly co-operation from others. Your refinement is apparent in the way you talk, the tone of your voice and the warmth with which you relate to others. It takes a lot more than shoeshine and a manicure to give a person polish. Courtesy is crucial to enhance our personality and is an off shoot of our ethical values. It reflects our respect for others and for ourselves. Nothing that we say should bring dishonour to our family, our school or our workplace. The great saint Kabir has beautifully encapsulated the thought in his couplet where he says that your words should be so soothing and gentle that they should not only win over other people but also bring peace and happiness to you. We should remember that when a crow speaks there is cacophony but when a koel sings it fills the garden with sweetness. Let us emulate the koel. Madhu Chandra,
Principal,
Birla Vidya Niketan |
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Police detain DU teachers New Delhi, April 18 The Delhi University Teachers’ Association
(DUTA) was protesting against the holding of selection committee to appoint the principal of the college. To register their protest, they demonstrated outside the college. According to the DUTA president, Mr Aditya Narayan Misra: “The matter of appointing the principal was not discussed in the Academic Council. The Vice-Chancellor is doing it under the so-called ‘amended DU ordinances’, which was also not discussed in the AC meeting.” Mr Misra said that when they tried to meet the chairman of the Governing Body of the college, the police that was already present there and did not allow them to do. Later, the police detained all of them and kept in the police station till the interview was over. He said that the DUTA has decided to start a weeklong relay hunger strike at the VC’s office from Monday April 19. |
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