When Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath and a founding father of the United States of America said that “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest”, he had referred to its uses and not to its mere accumulation. Franklin said it more than two centuries ago and his concept of the use...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a company’s sense of responsibility towards the community and environment in which it operates. As per the Companies Act 2013, corporates are required to spend at least 2% of their profits every year on CSR. Skill development is fast emerging as one of the ...
India is projected to have the largest young workforce in the world by 2025 but is failing to cash in on this rich demographic dividend. According to a draft report from National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), India presently has its highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years.The manufacturi...
Debate on quality can be linked to the period after World War I (1920s) when scientific management made a breakthrough in American industrial units to improve efficiency. It was much later that the concept of quality surpassed the boundaries of industrial sector and gripped the service sectors like ...
Giving children the kind of inputs and experiences they need has positive effects not only on their academic performance but also on a range of socio-economic outcomes. The responsibility of the school education system in the process of nation-building is enormous.According to the Annual Status of E...
Technical education in India has emerged as an integral part of the country’s higher education system and has wide reach in terms of providing employment. There is a constant need of upgradation in this field of education. Prof. Saikat Maitra, Vice Chancellor, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of...
Professor Dr. Santanu Kumar Sen, Principal, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, a flagship College of JIS Group, has been awarded the most prestigious degree of award ‘Professional Engineer’ by Institution of Engineers, (IEI) India on May 17, 2019. He is the first person in India in Computer Sci...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is the second largest cost and management accounting body in the world and the largest in Asia, having approximately 5,00,000 students and 75,000 members globally. The institute’s president CMA Amit Anand Apte spoke to BE about the organisation’s r...
It is a bygone conclusion that for good job prospects and a bright future, the basic requirement is good education. In a country like ours, where despite good education, the unemployment rate is quite high, there’s need for specialised education and trade-based curriculum.The last decade has seen ...
The Buddhist viewpoint of education is not much different from the general Indian view of education. Shiksha the basic spirit of which is to realize, develop and draw out what are already within and on the basis of that, the purpose of education is to lead a human being to the pathway of all-round d...