DailyPost 1788 WORKABLE KNOWLEDGE The other side of Jugaad, the management mantra of the Indians is workable knowledge, which can safely be termed as managing your way through every profession with just about manageable knowledge. A term like Jugaad is still to be coined for workable knowledge in Hindi or any other regional language. The impact […]
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DailyPost 1763 GURU PURNIMA – THE MENTORS OF YESTERYEARS What Guru translates into English remains unknown, if you go by the tenor, spirit and practice of this word down the ages. It cannot be brought down to the simple definition of teacher as it stands in the days of crash commercialization of education. The overall scenario
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DailyPost 1747 THE JARGONS OF INDIA (2) Jargons are words you are desperate to use but you don’t understand the meaning in tangible terms and hence you cannot put them into practice. It has immense appeal. It can create a halo around you which will wither away when you are not able to deliver and the
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DailyPost 1733 FACULITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FDPs as they call it has been on the professional education firmament for quite some time. I as a speaker have been gaining immensely from preparation for such sessions from time to time, on topics which are the current flavour and understanding them would add immense value to the faculty. It
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DailyPost 1668 HEAVY DUTY READING Speaking, reading and writing are extremely necessary skills of every human being. It can take you to the pedestal or leave you down in the dumps for all your life. Every person would love to have these but very very few are able to achieve even an iota of excellence in
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DailyPost 1650 JUST BECAUSE WE KNOW SO LITTLE… Just because we know so little, we don’t know what we are missing out. We might have missed the bus, or might be we have been missing buses on a regular basis and we don’t even know of it. Ignorance is bliss is an old saying, it is
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DailyPost 1637 ACADEMIC FREEDOM? In all the freedoms we keep talking about on a regular basis, we have not been talking of academic freedom ever. Does it need to be talked about or is it a given? Is there any connection between academic and the other freedoms, both by way of inculcating it and using
DailyPost 1609 PRIVATE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION There was a time when we generally had mostly government education at the professional level and there was barely any murmur about the quality of education. Might be the cut throat competition with very few seats on offer and reasonably dedicated and qualified faculty in an academic environment, did the
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DailyPost 1597 WHAT WE CREATE IS WHAT WE KNOW! It has been a nauseating exercise to equate knowledge with degrees. This premise has been proven to be wrong. Then the added baggage is the the institution you have gone to. If you ended up getting some medals then the world of should fall on your
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DailyPost 1581 RESEARCHING THE RESEARCH We have been in this arena from times immemorial and would continue to remain in it, till the cows come home? Research has become a standard vertical of any organisation, more so an academic one. What does research aspire to deliver, before we start researching the research in this country.
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DailyPost 1579 THE DEGREE PERFORMANCE CONNECT The world requires degrees, though some change is taking place yet it remains the final benchmark. If the degrees could deliver, we would have been a totally different country by now. If you were given an opportunity to differentiate between a person with a graduate degree and one with
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