EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 1 Dayananda Sagar is backed by a Six Decade Dayananda Sagar Legacy University in Educa careare Dayananda Sagar REGISTER NOW Admission Test DSAT www.dsu.edu.in Your Gateway to Success Email: [email protected] Highlight: International Highest Salary: Average Salary: Placements to 60 Plus Students Rs 28 Lakhs/PA Rs 6 Lakhs/PA Admissions would be through DSAT for the following programs: Provisional Admissions now open: Biological Science: B. Sc./M. Sc. ENGINEERING: Allied Health Sciences: B.Tech. - Computer Science & Engineering(CSE) B. Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology CSE (AI & ML)/CSE (Big Data and Data Science) B. Sc. Medical Imaging & Radiology Technology CSE (Cyber Security) / Electronics & Communication B. Sc. Anesthesia & Operation Theatre Technology Engineering / Mechanical Engineering B. Sc. Emergency & Trauma Care Technology Computer Science & Technology B. Sc. Renal Dialysis Technology Aerospace Engineering Masters in Public Health M.Tech. 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A report by Forbes of DSEU or Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship defines this as inclusive of those professionals University expresses this fact well on the who are managing their own businesses being university website when she writes that “the happier than those who are employed. The human hand with its long dexterous fingers report talks about work-life balance and a and opposable thumb gives it flexibility, productive channeling of creativity to build ability to feel and communicate. The human something is the antidote to the stress of hand is linked to the discovery of stone tools working for a living. 2.6 million years ago. The stone tools made This leaning towards skills and the by the hand made it possible for humans entrepreneurial mindset is being adopted by a to survive. The use of hands are linked lot of educational bodies throughout the country inextricably to the development of the mind.” and this is certainly a good omen. It is time for The industry agrees and so do the basic tenets students to start choosing a vocation for life of the NEP that is already being implemented because this is what is going to sustain them for in most of our educational institutions today. a long time. In every branch of study whether it Skill is obviously a double-edged is cosmetology or mental health, engineering or sword – and can be both an asset as well as humanities, the focus should be on developing a liability. This just means that we are not abilities that help a student understand the talking about the kind of skills that fiscal entire market scenario and the way new areas bunglers and burglars of all hues apply with can be identified and stepped into. Lets call this dexterity. We all know of the hundreds of entrepreneurial breakthrough. It is an intuitive people cashing in on the pandemic-inspired understanding of the way things work and the spurt for online workshops and courses and way students can adapt themselves to skillfully there are plenty of these where the only skill approach and capture ideas that will work is apparent is that of someone making sure that what defines both employability as well their millions of skill-starved people pay up to entrepreneurial future. get nothing but a cliched set of instructions. Hoping that the spirit with which skill Then there are those skilled scammers who development and an entrepreneurial mindset is earn money by luring people to publish their being endorsed, takes the country into a new era sub-standard articles pretending to be research of mature professionals. insights. There are others selling worthless awards or a chance to promote and sell ideas that have no relevance to anyone. One needs just a devious mind and not skills to do such things. 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Prof. Samit Ray Developed Technologies Prof. Madhu Vij 48 78 Former Professor Chancellor, FMS, University of Delhi Adamas University, Kolkata ADVERTORIAL Graduation and master’s Can a Bad Bank revive degree must be made 140 the Banking Industry compulsory It should 130 134 A perspective not be treated as an A Glance into Woxsen Apeejay Stya Sri Sri University, ornament University’s Awe-Inspiring University, Cuttack Campus Gurgaon EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 8 EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 9 EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 10 EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 11 COVER INTERVIEW IN CONVERSATION THE ART OF COMPOSING A SYMPHONY WITH A SINGLE SMILE Arvind Passey, Editor, The Education Post in conversation with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, an Indian Spiritual Leader and Founder, The Art of Living Foundation EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 12 EDUCATION POST | May-June 2021 | 13 IN CONVERSATION IN CONVERSATION The success story of the Art of Living foundation mundane. The goal of real education is to increase doesn’t end with having touched 450 million lives from awareness, not just to inform.