EDITORIAL
India’s Education System – Making a Grade
Message – Sikandar Singh Maluka, Education Minister, Punjab
Message – Kahan Singh Pannu, DGSE, Government of Punja
STATE FOCUS – PUNJAB
Pervesh Project: A Creative Learning Model in Primary Education of Punjab
ePunjab School Web Portal Brings Transparency in Education Department
Edusat Ensures Quality Education in Punjab Government Schools
Rajeev Sharma, Deputy State Project Director, Punjab Edusat Society
Punjab’s Initiative towards Creating Employment
“Quality Education is Punjab’s Focus”
HIGHER EDUCATION
Tablets: Expediting Teaching-Learning
ACADEMIA SPEAK
Tablets Battling Faculty Shortage in India
MJ Xavier, Director, IIM Ranchi
Reaping the Benefits of Demographic Dividend
VS Ramamurthy, Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
CORPORATE DIARY
MP has an Edge Over Others in RTE
Rashmi Arun Shami, Commissioner-cum-Director, Rajya Shiksha Kendra (RSK) & Ex-Officio Secretary School Education, Government of Madhya Pradesh
DIGITAL LITERACY
Creating a Digitally Literate Nation
Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Managing Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT)
INDUSTRY SPEAK
Tablets: The Rise of Tablets
Naveen Rajlani, Senior Vice President and Head – School Division, Pearson Education India
The Right to Misinform, an Obligation to Keep Secrets, Frittering Away 10,000 crores, and Other Such Tales!
Manish Upadhyay, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, LIQVID; AmitavaMaitra, Independent Ed Tech Consultant
Why 2013 is the Most Defining Year for Education
Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head, TCS iON
POLICY MATTERS
National Academic Depository of India
Dr Veera Gupta, Associate Professor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi; Former Secretary, CBSE
EVENT REPORT
Pearson Education Services, NDTV Honour Teachers
Dr Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for HRD
FEATURE
Industry-Academia Gap: Cementing Gaps to Make Tomorrow Employable
If your organisation is in the business of climbing trees, you need to hire squirrel, not a horse
Binoj Vasu, GEVP and Chief Learning Officer, Human Capital Management, YES Bank Ltd
Learning-by-Doing and Learning-while-Earning are the Ways to Bridge the Gap
Neeti Sharma, Vice President, TeamLease – IIJT
“Annual Rating and Accreditation of B-Schools will Help”
SY Siddiqui, National President, The National Human Resources Development Network (NHRDN) and COO-Administration (HR, Finance, IT & COSL), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd
“Manage Industry-Academic Alliances like an Investment Portfolio”
Lokesh Mehra, Director-Education Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd
The Principle is Buyer Beware
TR Shastri, Dean, ICICI Manipal Academy
Conceptualise Training Programmes Keeping the Industry Requirements in Mind
Anu Senan, Saurabh Jain & Vivek Srinivasan, XLRI GMP Class of 2013
