DailyPost 339 DEGREES /DIPLOMAS/CERTIFICATIONS The craze for acquiring one degree after another other does not end in this country. The certifications start once you get into a professional career. Even at later stages in life we find lots of professionals getting into all sorts of degrees & certifications mostly unconnected with the professional areas they […]
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DailyPost 326 KNOWLEDGE EVAPORATION Consolidation of knowledge as we progress in professional life keeps us not only afloat but gives the lead. Reminiscing how bright one was during the academic life is heard all around. What is one left with at the end of the day is working knowledge of the very specific area of
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DailyPost 323 SOCIAL MEDIA & ACADEMICS From being declared the Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2006, social media today dominates the way digital technology is used around the world. Academics is no exception. Wikipedia is redefining everyday knowledge. The technological lag between educators & available cutting edge mediums have long been there; films
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DailyPost 320 IS COMPETITION AN ENIGMA? Competition is one word which most of abhor & relate to stress & strain prevalent all around the place. From school to top positions in the professional ladder, from free lancers to the politicians, generally finds oneself at the receiving end of competition. Facts throw up lots of contradictions
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DailyPost 318 ACADEMIC PURSUIT Academic pursuit in the strict of the term or as per the general perception is studying or learning on a structured format. It is juxtaposed to having an interest in sports, music, fine arts et al. Pursuit is an urge in search of an accomplishment beyond known boundaries, structure is the
DailyPost 316 FORMATTING Once we able to write a sentence in the early years of our schooling, the concept of formatting makes way into our language psyche. English teachers, as ordained since times immemorial, take pains to align us to the accepted norms & systems of writing. Books like Wren & Martin have contributed their
DailyPost 314 10,000 HOURS FORMULA EXTRAPOLATED Practice makes a man perfect is an adage all of us have grown up with. Malcom Gladwell in his book titled Outliers has quantified this adage into a rule, the 10,000 hours rule ; it’s the time required of dedicated practice to truly master a skill, may it be
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DailyPost 313 WHY NATIONS FAIL? Failed states is a concept and a reality which takes a huge share of our discussions on the fate of countries which make their way to success & the ones who are stuck up in a vicious cycle, never to emerge. A deep analysis of the issue in a book
DailyPost 311 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS India produces 15 lakh engineers to manage $2 trillions economy & US produces 1 lakh engineers to manage $15 trillions economy. “Educated unemployables” is a term specifically coined for the Indian professionals leaving colleges. The underemployed of our students passing out of our professional colleges is reaching epic proportions not
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DailyPost 294 DOCTORAL PROGRAMS Doctoral programs are the cornerstone of all research in a county, each doctoral thesis an unique academic profound & creating in the researcher an urge for enquiry, in the most scientific, empirical & objective manner, for his immediate professional requirements or his larger research passion. As the cumulative quantum of research
DailyPost 289 FDPs & MDPs Faculty & Management Development Programs have been in vogue for quite sometime now. It’s more of a rigmarole that lecturers & executives go through in a mechanical manner to decorate their CVs. The CVs undeniably give a better look & feel, more so when it is packaged in the modern
