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great indian institutes This ediion is a Great Place To Study FeatureED programme Shekhar Bhattacharjee Founder & CEO Outreach Ravi Sharma Sakshi Chadha Taruna Thakur Alif Hossain Operations THIS EDITION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY Meghna Singh Jennifer R. Bailey Creative Naveen Kumar Karan Sharma To Read this edition online www.greatplacetostudy.org New Delhi B1/B2, Mohan Estate, New Delhi-110044 P: +91-11-41023100 London 111 Buckingham Palace Road Vicgtoria Westminster, london - SW1W OSR P: +44 203-026-6042 Manila 19th Floor Marco Polo Ortigas Pasig City, Manila- 1600 P: +61-02-883-5272 CONTENTS Great Indian Institutes 2018-19 Great Indian Institutes 2018-19 is brought to you by Great Place to Study to showcase some of the Indian institutions who are thought 07 leaders in the country's education community. great indian institutes Cover Image © Skilltree Knowledge Consortium CEO-Forbes India & President Revenue, Network 18: Joy Chakraborthy Marketing : Neha Chimbulkar Juhi Batra Jitendar Gujar Advertising Sales : Preeti Sahni Girish Sharma Mitu Midha Anil Bhatia Atishay Singh Divya Bhatia Distribution: Subhadra Bose Kaushal Pillai Expert Speak Advertising Operation: Chaitali Karia Our panel of experts from the Indian education sector share their opinions. Smita Suvarna Krishna Gupta Prashant Rane All Rights Reserved © 2009 Forbes LLC, as to material published in the 06 edition of Forbes Asia. All Rights Reserved. 49 Intellectual Disability — Acharya Dhanwant Singh 31 Publisher: Maneck Davar Issue Editor: Kushel Madhusoodanan, Pooja Mujumdar Designer: Bharati Khule, Namrata Shelar DISCLAIMER The views and opinions expressed in this magazine are of SkillTree Knowledge Consortium and of the respective profiles featured in the magazine. SkillTree Knowledge Consortium takes full responsibility of the 22 content in this issue and places it at the sole discretion of SkillTree Knowledge Consortium. SkillTree Knowledge Consortium has taken full care to issue error-free knowledge in the public domain through this marketing initiative 14 Pushing the Boundaries of in collaboration with Forbes India Marquee. Higher Education — Paul Dupuis FORBES INDIA MARQUEE - A SPECIAL MARKETING PRESENTATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKILLTREE KNOWLEDGE CONSORTIUM AND GREAT PLACE TO STUDY - SEPTEMBER 2018 3 ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCY TRAINING IN THE EDUCATION CURRICULUM Greater entrepreneurship can help the youth achieve their fullest potential. - Arvina Purkayastha education teaches these skills. It equips students to seek out problem-solving opportunities, empathise with others, think creatively, take risks, accept failure as part of the growth process, and appreciate the correlation between hard work and success. More opportunities for creativity, innovation, and collaboration in schools ARVINA PURKAYASTHA As testing and standards take over our education system, FOUNDER & CEO BROADCAST1 opportunities for students to create, innovate, collaborate, and demonstrate proficiency or mastery in real-life ways become scarce. Entrepreneurship education not only Entrepreneurship has been regarded as a new science in encourages, but also requires students to be creative, to the promotion of economic development leading to rapid innovate, and to collaborate with others. development in entrepreneurship education. The growing number of students enrolled in entrepreneurship programs Importance of learning problem-solving skills creates unprecedented challenges for educators. College and Problem-solving has been all the rage in education university business schools are a primary source of knowledge for years. Traditionally, schools have taught problem- for aspiring business professionals. Many business schools have solving through pre-defined set ups, which are not embraced the rise in entrepreneurial activity and have responded suitable for practical use. In the real world, problems to this trend by expanding entrepreneurship courses that address get fixed with thorough identification. Students need to the emerging trends in start-up ventures. In light of this trend, learn how to identify problems and solve the right ones. there is much debate over whether schools can actually teach If a student identifies a problem incorrectly or solves individuals to be entrepreneurs through traditional theory-based the wrong problem, the solution to the problem has learning and other pedagogical practices. This debate is fuelled no value. by the disparate results in entrepreneurial studies. More grit Greater entrepreneurship is the antidote to these remaining Students learn grit through entrepreneurship because economic headwinds and can help the youth achieve their the entrepreneurial process is demanding and uncertain. fullest potential. Colleges, fostering entrepreneurship should These experiences can be extremely beneficial for leverage their infrastructure and resources to engage students students to learn before they graduate and begin to face with local employers, entrepreneurs, and lenders. real-life, people-in-need situations. Few Reasons for teaching Entrepreneurship To make a difference Where the future is uncertain, students need skills This truth is self-evident. Entrepreneurs, by definition, that will allow them to make their own way want to make a difference. In the business sense, We can’t predict the job market and economy our students entrepreneurs seek to solve problems, meet needs, will enter into, therefore cannot predict the competence and ease difficulties as a means of selling products or they will need to possess to thrive in it. We know without services. In the social sense, entrepreneurs use ideas a doubt that our students need skills that will allow and solutions to make a difference to human beings them to navigate uncertain waters. Entrepreneurship or on the environment. Either way, students trained FORBES INDIA MARQUEE - A SPECIAL MARKETING PRESENTATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKILLTREE KNOWLEDGE CONSORTIUM 4 AND GREAT PLACE TO STUDY - SEPTEMBER 2018 EXPERTSPEAK Students need skills that will allow them to make their own way in entrepreneurship education enter the world determined to creatively solve problems, meet needs, and make the world a better place. Importance of learning problem- Cultivating entrepreneurial behaviour and solving skills culture Entrepreneurship Education has met with varying degrees of success suggesting that More grit not only is there one single approach to achieving an entrepreneurial community Few Reasons through but also there are other variables for teaching at work about which little is known. One such variable is ‘culture’, perhaps the most Entrepreneurship difficult of all to influence and adapt. The custodians of community culture are its educators, those tasked with perpetuating the values of a community through the provision of education. To build an entrepreneurial community, it is necessary to fundamentally alter traditional strategies and teaching To make a methods in such a way that learning takes on difference new meaning, not only for students but also for other community stakeholders. More opportunities for creativity, innovation, and Values driven: Alignment to a common collaboration in schools vision and inclusive consultation at a strategic level are meaningless unless people behave collectively in accordance with a shared set of values. The success or failure of any adaptation hinges on how strongly people believe in the new initiative and how well they alter their The successes that should encounter in Entrepreneurship Education behaviour to support it. Teachers should run should be a result of three primary factors: focus groups evolved around storytelling frenzies of how an entrepreneurial approach Firstly, each school should have a clearly defined vision of to their teaching will make a difference. what Entrepreneurship Education should be and the results it should deliver. Leadership: Transformational initiatives in any organisation require strong, focused and Secondly, leadership should facilitate the inclusive formulation of a committed leadership, even more so when joint strategy that involves all community stakeholders. there is the potential for a fundamental shift in the culture of the organization. Schools Thirdly, an incremental implementation process should be used should plot further along the entrepreneurial that encourages participation from key community stakeholders, side of the spectrum, demonstrating a focus at professional teaching staff and the students themselves. a strategic level. FORBES INDIA MARQUEE - A SPECIAL MARKETING PRESENTATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKILLTREE KNOWLEDGE CONSORTIUM AND GREAT PLACE TO STUDY - SEPTEMBER 2018 5 EXPERTSPEAK RETHINKING EDUCATION MODELS Building a conversational framework that promotes individuality and creativity in the classroom. a mere receiver but one that propels the action of learning, forward. Technology is an intrinsic part of curriculum execution at REVA and infused in every facet of the learning encounter. Lectures are captured and shared with students so they can study it at leisure and watch them through Moodle using the ERP portal. These lectures are also available in the library for students who need additional support in learning. CF heavily stresses on interaction and its affixed versions. To explicate; narrative media form at the first stage of learning involves one-sided learning employing media like print, TV, DR. P SHYAMA RAJU videos etc. for introduction. This stage is for apprehension. 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