Skill development is one of the primary mandates of the Narendra Modi Government, looking to transform the skill gamut in the country. The country has an opportunity to reap the potential demographic dividend and the government has recognised this need and had launched the Skill India mission. With an ambitious target of making India a skilled one, the session discussed the vision and focus of the Central Government and the States as they embark upon this ambitious mission

Kalthoom Al Balooshi, Executive Director, Education Development, Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Dubai:

The opportunities for the growth and development of education in Dubai are immense and also crucial for the progress of the country. As the nation is the centre of trading and transit, the industry of higher education started with traders, businessmen coming from far across, from India, for spice, clothing among others. They became a community and this community needed a school in Dubai. So, to serve them the schools were initiated, providing the Indian community curriculum.

There are now 2,55,000 students from 120 different nationalities that represent the citizenship in Dubai. Thirty one schools are offering Indian curriculum for 80,000 students. The nation caters to 13 per cent of school market and 30 per cent of student market. Seeing the growth currently at 5-7 per cent every year, upto 2020, we are expecting 70 new schools, where 40 per cent will offer Indian curriculum.

Dr Abdullah Al-Shibli, Director General of the Colleges of Applied Sciences, Ministry of Higher Education, The Sultanate of Oman:

Regarding skills in higher education and challenges, one of the crisis is gaps, one is between the school leader and skill for higher education and the other is gap between the education institution and the skill for the particular job. We have Oman accredited institutes to see quality and make sure they provide quality education to empower students.

FOCAL POINT: There is a mismatch between the skills given and the skills required in the job market. Most education institutes here have courses on skills to bridge this gap for provision of skill. The strategy for Oman 2040 is investing for more in school education so when they come to higher education, the students have attained the required skills for higher education. I think there is a culture issue here as most people like to pick either a government job or big companies. They do not wish to start their own individual businesses. Most of the population we have is youth, so we have people who go to the job market but we don’t have many who want to leave the jobs. As part of the issue is culture, we as a ministry started a department to study the gap of skills needed for job and provided by the institutions, to see whether they are providing right skills or not, give advice to them to revise the curriculum and build good relations with the industry.

In Oman there are two ministries, one is Ministry of School Education and the other is Higher Education. We have 62 higher education institutes, where more than half of them are private ones, and only one government institute called the Sultan Qaboos University that had started in 1986. We give scholarship to students going abroad in our schools

Rishi Khemka, Chief Enjoyment Officer, ARK Infosolutions Pvt Ltd, Mindbox

Industry presentation: The most valued asset is our mind and our ability to think and express ourselves. We communicate through thoughts and words, but today it is vital to communicate digitally as well. So, we educators have excelled in making something for the students to imagine, explore, ideate, and create a language to store that. Ideas are organism. If we don’t store them they will die. We need a language to communicate through visual languages as it is the best way to understand.

Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, Hon’ble Minister, Department of School Education, Government of Punjab:

I feel honoured and privileged to be a part of WES. I appreciate and congratulate ELETS Technomedia Pvt. Ltd. for such an event and I am happy to note that the education summit is focusing on skill development and school, higher and vocational education.

POINTS TO PONDER:

• Emphasis on teacher training in primary education
• Have courses in schools for skill development
• Build a holistic environment that exuberates the creative bent of mind
• Ensure imparting quality education through suitable curriculum for preparation of future vocations

ICT is given prime importance in Punjab, and we have started computer labs in all the secondary and higher secondary government schools. The state also has 3,800 education institutions included in the EDUSAT programme

Meeting the Growing Demand of Experienced Faculty in Higher Education

Technology in innovation has changed the quality that the education sector can reap in. There has been a humungous growth in education techniques, with students becoming more aware and well-versed in their social and life skills. But there is a dire need of resources to benet this new-age learning and the session on ‘Meeting the Growing Demand of Experienced Faculty in Higher Education: Innovative technology solutions,’ during the Fifth World Education Summit, 2015, saw academia and industry leaders discuss and deliberate on how to combat the crisis

FOCAL POINT: Having quality teachers is a challenge for our country, and in higher education the situation is no different. There is an acute shortage of senior faculty and competent professors who can produce good doctors, engineers and lawyers. We are trying to build a skilled country in higher education sector and we are managing the country with just 33 per cent faculty member. Even our most premier institutes like IITs and IIMs are not meeting the guidelines set by regulatory bodies like AICTE and UGC. It’s a big challenge for all of us but we have to come up with solutions.

ROSHAN GUPTA, Head, Global Alliances and Public Sector Business, Business Octane presented the audience with an industry perspective

The British Council research highlights that India will need almost 1,000 universities and 50,000 colleges for educating half a billion students in higher education by 2020. If we see the figures in 1950, there were just 27 universities and less than 600 colleges. This is the largest transformation any country has attempted so far in higher education

It is crucial to develop a two-way street for students from India and Canada, and strengthen the education ties of the two nations, says Prof Allan Rock, President, University of Ottawa, Canada while in conversation with Prathiba Raju of Elets News Network (ENN)

What are the similarities between Canada and India when it comes to higher education system?

Well, Canada is much like India on a smaller scale. Our post higher secondary system offers wide options from vocational skills training to law, medicine arts and humanities. It is a broad spectrum as you find in India. Our demographics are quite different from India as in next five years, we are expecting to see a decline in the university or college going young Canadians and hoping it would pick up by 2020. We are certainly not looking at the same numbers nor the same domain on the system that India has. But I think we have a great deal to learn from each other and that is the main reason I’m participating in the WES 2015. It is nice to learn more about how India and its institutions are confronting the challenges of meeting the market domains on one hand and educating the population on the other. We are happy to share the experiences we have in Canada. Exchange of viewpoints, perspectives and experiences would lead to a common advantage.

India is emphasising on skill education under a programme called Skill India initiative. How do you see it?

Skill development is an essential component, and there are no questions about that as many of the presentations in WES had focused upon the need for skill to meet the demands of India’s growing economy. We cannot overlook the importance of education in terms of developing the person and not just their skills. We also need to develop people in the workforce with a capacity of critical thinking, broad knowledge, humanities, social science and people who are able to write, evaluate options in terms of governance, administration and policy. All aspects of the education are important. We should also realise that education is for human development and people would be seen as a whole and not just as establishments.

Are you looking out for research opportunities in India?

Yes, the research collaborations between both the countries are terribly important and we are looking out for partners. The Canadian research intensive universities, for example, U15 Group of consortium of universities, should engage in world class research across the spectrum. The University of Ottawa particularly focuses on health, neuroscience, stem cell research, cardio vascular, and population health and cancer research. In science and engineering, we focus on photonics and development of new medical devices, not just that we have public policy, public administration, law, governance, human rights only, we also have a broad area of interest in research university. The University of Ottawa always looks for quality partners. I’m confident that many from India would engage. One of the important reasons for my visit to India is to look for collaboration and research with Indian institutions.

I’m interested in seeing even the Canadians come to India as well I think it will be a fabulous addition to the education of Canadians to spend time in the Indian institution. I hope we develop a two-way traffic.

Why do you think Canadian Universities are not that popular in India?

We have not established a sufficiently strong relationship between Canada and India in the sphere of education and collaboration, whether through student exchange, mobility, or research partnerships. It’s astonishing to look at how close the two countries are in so many other ways. In 2014, about 31,000 Indian students attended higher education in Canada. That’s only eight per cent of the total international students in Canada that year. China sent three times and two-thirds of the students to Canada in higher education instiinstitutions and vocational colleges.

At the moment, there is no sufficient traffic between Canadian and Indian universities, institutes, and research centres. We need to broaden it. The reason for the lack of traffic is Canada’s fault as we haven’t really branded ourselves as a desirable destination in higher secondary education yet. We have some of the best universities in the world and the price for tuition is comparatively nominal compared to the UK and the US. We offer wide variety of education, right from vocational to the academic. For both the undergraduate and postgraduate, it is up to Canada, its university and government to let it be known in India. We are indeed a destination which is highly desirable for Indian students. At the same time, people like me should make sure that Canadian students have wide opportunities here in India.

I don’t have to leave the impression at a one way street.

What kind of collaboration are you looking for?

As of now, I don’t know whether our collaboration would include opening up branch campuses in India. However, I hope we will include research partnerships and transnational education, where we have perhaps common degrees being awarded for doctorate programmes with Indian universities and institutes. Above all, I hope that we broaden the bridge of education that connects both the countries. We have so much in common. There are now over a million Canadian in the Indian heritage that shows we have strong cultural ties. It’s very much to our mutual advantage to develop those ties in education and build it in a wonderful way.

What are your takeaways from the World Education Summit 2015?

I came to the conference to know about what the Indian education system has to offer and also learn from it. As the Indian education system is in a state of transition, it is trying to accommodate a large number of people who are in the demographic dividend, it is a challenge for the system to accommodate a huge lot. But I see a real determination in creating a system which has quality, accessibility and provides the kind of preparation India needed for tomorrow. I’m very impressed by the commitment and determination on part of the academic institution, industry and government as they work for the common cause.

With the focus to impart skill education at the undergraduate level, AISECT University has made it mandatory for the undergraduate students to learn skill courses in a four year term. Vijay Kant Verma, Vice Chancellor, AISECT University, Bhopal in conversation with Vishwas Dass of Elets News Network (ENN) throws light on how the university is bridging the gap between industry and academia

Could you elaborate the role of AISECT University in skill education initiative.

AISECT University is the first varsity which has introduced skill at higher education, almost around three years back. We have introduced skill courses mandatorily to be undertaken by undergraduates every year. A student has to undergo minimum four skill courses. We have 22 skill courses at undergraduate level. The other aspect is that these courses are multidisciplinary. Importantly, we have designed these skill courses in a way to impart 80 per cent practical training to students while remaining 20 per cent is theoretical.

We have partnered with NSDC and have moved on to a skill academy within the university, which is coordinating all these courses and improving the quality. We are trying to align all the skill courses offered at higher education level, along with NSDC courses. This will improve the quality—the employability of students because these courses are very current in the industry. For instance, we have skill courses from renewable energy, automobile and communication sectors, among others. We have a collaboration with industry to make these courses more employable involving like Reliance, Tata and several foreign firms where they help in imparting skill courses to our students.

Which are the streams where you see the youth moving forward in the skill courses? Also why despite imparting the best training to engineering students, why are they not able to get the jobs?

At higher education level, renewable energy sector is generating a lot of interest, followed by communication and automobile sectors. The non-engineering areas, where engineers are also interested, are banking, insurance and retail sectors. One area, which is common to all the disciplines and where industry is seeing the employability gap, is the communication skill. Communication skill among the youths in Madhya Pradesh is appearing to be deficient which is almost across all the disciplines. We need to improve the communication and other skills to make students enable to get jobs in leading firms. The tie ups with global companies will help in a big way. If you look at the Indian education system, it is more like teaching where emphasis on research and hands on components is not there as compared to European, American and other developed countries. This is the reason why none of the Indian universities or institutions are in the world ranking of first 200. Therefore, we need to focus on research and skills development, and collaborating with foreign institutions will bring in a lot of research orientation to bridge the employability gap.

How is this initiative bridging the gap between the industry and academia?

We are trying to involve industries in these skill development courses. Tata Motors is setting up its labs and we have collaboration with them on automobile skill courses. We have partnered with IT Power Gurgaon, a leading industry on renewable energy. Our first batch of undergraduate level will be passing out with the said skill courses.

What is your opinion on the WES Summit and how it can help the AISECT to reform educational set up?

It is a vibrant platform where all the stakeholders like industrialists, government regulatory bodies and institutes from different parts of the country are coming under one platform and are converging. It is providing a wide platform where a lot of interaction takes places. There has to be a platform where the exchange of ideas takes place that will modulate all the policies and action plan. I must congratulate Elets Technomedia for organising such an event that helps a lot to various stakeholders participating in the event.

Cultivating Innovation in School Education

Creativity is an element that is brought to innovation. Creativity and innovation goes hand-in-hand and unless the two are not together they are meaningless. Innovation in education helps the child to explore, generates interest and inspire. Bhawna Satsangi of Elets News Network (ENN) nds out how this new form of learning is transforming the teaching methods

With the introduction of digital era, the new form of learning is transforming the teaching methods with an inclination towards innovative and creative learning. Innovation brings a positive change in the life of a person, child and a teacher. Student centered learning is important

Education is the challenge that underlies all other world challenges. When it comes to education, innovation is a technique which helps the child to explore, generates interest and inspires him. Being innovative is about looking beyond what we currently do, identifying the great ideas of tomorrow and putting them into practice.

Kalpana Mohan, Principal, Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore, shares, “We all talk about child centric education but how many of us are giving that kind of opportunity to the kids to speak in the class about their ideas. Innovation in a classroom can be a small anecdote, small kind of role plays by a teacher which will help to make a change. Give a role to play to child. We can look innovation in a different way by demonstrating it to the child.”

With the introduction of digital era, this new form of learning is transforming the teaching methods with an inclination towards innovative and creative learning. Innovation brings a positive change in the life of a person, child and a teacher. Student centered learning is important.

To prepare emerging innovation driven knowledge society, students and teachers should be engaged in functioning as a knowledge creating community, oriented toward advancements of collective knowledge.

Thought Leaders Panel

Providing quality education to children is the mandate for the schools to make India a developed country. It is not only the private schools’ responsibility but also the government responsibility to impart quality education. It is indeed one of the important components for moving the country forward as private schools add to the changing economy of the country writes Bhawna Satsangi of Elets News Network (ENN)

Like most private schools, Global Discovery is also focusing towards changing the paradigm and education delivery system in the country. We are trying to contribute to the growing economy of India. There are 1.4 million schools in the country today catering to 250 million kids, school going students and 100 million of them are enrolled with the private schools, which is nearly 40 per cent. By year 2022, we are still going to be short of nearly 1, 50, 000 schools and that is the demand that exists in the country.

There is no government pre-schools available in the urban areas. We have ‘anganwadi’ set up by the government in rural areas. So, that’s the basic need of parents to put the child in private schools. Considering that need of Vidarbha region, we started schools all over Vidarbha districts. There is a need of quality education in a developing country like India. Looking towards the developing sector of our country, the motto of our education society is quality education at par with the metro cities. Computer literacy, language development, preparation for different competitive examinations comprises of quality education, which is must to be imparted to the students. The exposure to the students at international levels helps in developing good generation and the country.

India is the second most populous country in the world. There is around 125 crore population and we are moving towards the first place in near future. If the human resources are utilised properly, definitely India will become a developed country. Providing quality education especially to the school going children is the need of the hour and it should be the government responsibility to provide quality education. However, government has its own limitations. There are state governments schools which are facing lot of problems and do not have a proper monitoring mechanism. Most of them are regional language schools, which are not helpful for the students and parents, there is no proper mechanism for teacher training, no one shows interest to adopt new technology and there is lack of competitions. Because of the lack of amenities, we have observed one to two per cent migration from government to private schools. Therefore, private schools have taken the responsibility of providing quality education even to the rural areas. Today, the need of the hour is affordable private schools, which can help parents to afford the education of their child.

Today parents see the benefits of good preschool education. A child who has been to a good preschool system is more confident, has more social skills. We teach socialisation skills in our schools. Also verbal development also quickly adapted in preschools. Role of our sector changed dramatically from preparatory schools to preschools preparing them for formal schools. There are 70 percent elements of running a quality school that are replicable. That is why franchising works beautifully.

Eden Group of Schools was started in 2004. Since then, the school has expand to 24 branches in Rajasthan. There are three major categories of private schools that we look forward in today’s scenario: Low cost school Mid scale Upscale The midscale is further divided into the lower midscale and the upper midscale. We started with low cost school and gradually scale to midscale and two premium schools. The reason to categories private schools is that we mostly generalise them in one entity. Each of these categories has different needs, the major need of the parents in the low cost school is that the student should read, write and speak. In the midscale, majority of parents is inclined more towards counting on the numbers of the students. The student should come in top 10. In upscale schools, parents believe that majority of the innovative teaching or global perspective teaching is done in the upscale schools. Today, what is required is to invent a particular education for kids because these kids are the future of the country. We need to make sure that the kids are more adaptable to the changing world and its needs. It is necessary to keep the learning standardised and this keeps on increasing with the personal learning.

We started our journey in 1946, in a cantonment and the school was set up to cater to the needs of the people. It was one of the first privately managed school besides missionary schools set up by the Britishers. Over the last seven decades, we are fortunate to have grown in terms of volume and quality. To sustain, schools have to have a strong set of value system. To sustain, it is more important to win the trust of the other stakeholders like parents, society etc. The fee structure is minimum and there has been no compromise on the facilities given to students. We have observed sudden changes in education system in the last 70 years and in the last decade K-12 segment has shot into limelight. Everything has changed, now with the single child or two child norm, the affordability to spend on education has increased. There is more awareness among the parents on education and are not compromising on the education of the child. Role of judiciary, role of media, and intervention of the government with the Right to Education legislation has been changed. At the academic aspect, earlier there was not too much emphasis on various activities. However, now there is a lot of transition from an academic environment to a more activity oriented environment. We have been keeping pace with the changing scenario and are using technology in the curriculum at the school level.

POINTS TO PONDER:

• Preschools to get named as preparatory schools as people understand what is it all about to develop the child to go to the next level
• Child Development, a combination of good learning spaces, experiential gadgets, technology use, innovation, keeping address of the time, metrics and measurements should be watched constantly to keep the pressure to deliver what has been promised
• Franchising is not a dirty word. We need to realise that the idea is to scale across
• Need to focus on standardisation, teaching and training which is very important
• People should start choosing teaching as a career
• Education should be affordable to spread across the country
• Winning the trust of the government is critical. We need to take our concern to the government through the mediums of forum which will help in expanding education reach

As soon as people have a choice, they can move from one to the other. If you open up the market, there is going to be a lot of competition and that itself will ensure that people do not misuse the situation. The competition will improve quality, give a lot of space for innovation and will also solve the issue on marks of the children, sooner they move to secondary level. The minute the processes in education is eased out, there will be lot of investments coming in, competition coming in. It’s a long way in solving these issues.

It is very tough to run a teacher training institute because nobody wants to be a teacher. This is the hard reality and everybody knows that unless we have quality and urban kids wanting to be teachers, we can’t deliver quality in the classroom. The quality is the teacher herself. When we talk about ICT as a source of delivering quality, it’s a supplementary source. The primary source is the teacher and this country lacks the aspirations of the teachers. At the very outset, it is no rocket science that education planning has dominated the economic planning from the past decade. There have been number of reforms, commissions and programmes. India alone is contributing to almost 100 billion people. Private schooling is on the rise. In India privatisation of schools is very high. The number of students enrolled in private schools is over 100 million compared to the US, which has 5 million, and in the UK strength is 5 lakh. Simple reason being that in the US and the UK public school system, which is a government run system, affords quality education. Some of them are almost free. In our country, this experiment went wrong. The school government system failed miserably in quality which is why private schools got the opportunity to move in and provide quality education. According to FICCI report, by 2030 India is going to be the youngest nation and the oldest civilisation. A large number of students of the college going age are going to bring up this young India. Every fourth graduate of the world is going to be an Indian product of the Indian system. So, it is really upto us to provide quality and skilled education to the world or not.

It is no surprise that the boundaries between the marketing and technology roles in companies are getting blurred. Technology is the tool that marketers are feeding off and hence, there are companies that are looking into new technology and data analytics a lot more than they ever did, writes Abhinav Upadhyay, Head – Marketing & Innovation of Zee Learn.

Kidzee,is a flagship brand of Zee Learn that has become Asia’s largest Pre-school Network with more than 1500 centres in 500+ cities across India and Nepal. The K-12 brand, Mount Litera Zee School (MLZS) is one the fastest growing and awarded school network in the country with over 150 signed up schools and growing and with over 80 operational schools across the country.

This is possible because the brands (Kidzee and Mount Litera Zee School)are constantly evolving and staying relevant to the times and providing the finest pedagogy and learning environment for children both in Preschools as well as in K-12 schools.

Through its unique Interactive Illume pedagogy at Kidzee and LItera Octave pedagogy at Mount Litera Zee Schools, Zee Learn is delivering quality education supplemented with technology based learning. The growth and the many awards bestowed thereto are only a reflection of the quality of the brand delivery at India’s largest chain of preschools and schools.

It is no surprise that both parents as well as educational entrepreneurs are looking at Kidzee and Mount Litera Zee Schools as brands of choice.

“The recognition from the parents, partners, investors as well as from various juries of awards becomes possible only because quality, excellence, trust and transparency form the core of our existence which our business partners, our students and students’ parents reciprocate in equal measure”, says Abhinav Upadhyay – Head Marketing & Innovation at Zee Learn. Parents have reconfirmed the trust in Kidzee, which is noticeable via the IPSOS Customer Satisfaction Survey 2014 where close to 90% of the parents rated us as being ‘Excellent’ on various parameters of excellence.

What is right for the child(WRFC) is the guiding philosophy that forms the base of everything for any of the brands at Zee Learn.

“Another aspect of our brand communication is Accessibility. When consumers can connect quickly and without difficulty and have a delightful experience in their interaction, you win not just Trust but also their Affinity. We offer various ways in which anyone can reach us – through a phone call, through email, through digital and social media, and through SMS which helps that consumers are constantly connected to us and we are able to hear them and help them whenever they need us”, adds Upadhyay.

Through its vision of championing the cause of children and their needs, the company has earned lots of recent accolades and awards which stands testimony to the new and innovative work being done by Zee Learn and its various brands.

In the year 2015-16, Zee Learn was conferred with the award of India’s Most Trusted Educational Brand for the year by Trust Research Advisory.

The innovative work for the brand Kidzee won it the award of “Most Attractive Brand – Education” in 2015-16

Zee Learn Ltd. has been conferred with the Make in India Award for Excellence- 2015

Mount Litera Zee School was conferred with the “National K-12 School Chain of the Year” Award in 2015-16

About Zee Learn and its brands

About Zee Learn Limited
Zee Learn is one of the leading companies in Education in India with the fastest growing chain of K-12 schools and India’s No 1 chain of pre-schools in its portfolio. The company runs India’s No. 1 chain of preschools, Kidzee with more than 1350+ preschools in more than 500+ cities.

Zee Learn acts as a consultant to local entrepreneurs who wish to setup K-12 schools, under its brand name Mount Litera Zee Schools and provides end to end Education management and Advisory services. Mount Litera Zee Schools is now the second largest chain of schools in the private-unaided category with more than 80 schools in 75 cities.

For more information, log on to www.zeelearn.com

Kidzee

Kidzee is Asia’s largest and only preschool chain to have more than 1500 active centres across the country and the Asian continent and has served over 400,000 children with its unique learning methodology.

Kidzee, has been ranked no 1 in India’s Most Attractive Brands 2015list in the education and pre-school category. The study was carried out byTrust Research Advisory (TRA) a part of the Comniscient Group, is a Brand Intelligence and Data Insights

Kidzee, has also been conferredwith a bronze award for an Outstanding Outdoor Campaign in Best Use of Ambient Media under special categories at Outdoor Advertising Awards (OAA) 2015.

For more information log on to www.kidzee.com

Mount Litera Zee School

Mount Litera Zee School, one of India’s largest private unaided school chain,was awarded the Most Trusted School Brand in the year 2015-16 by Brand Trust Report, 2015. The brand has also been conferred with K-12 National School Chain of the Year 2015 by Franchise India. 8 MLZS schools have been awarded the Top Schoolsin India award by Digital Learning Magazine.

For more information log on to www.mountlitera.com.

Great Sports Infra, sports infrastructure solutions provider has created a niche place for itself

With the growing popularity of sports and fitness in India, educational institutes aren’t leaving any stone unturned to have a worldclass sports infrastructure. From just being a ‘nice-to-have’ amenity until recently, sports facility is now rapidly becoming an essential feature.

Setting up a school or college with the best sports facility is a challenging task that involves investment in terms of time and capital. This trend of adding sports facility is accompanied by many challenges.

While there is a definite lack of infrastructure, it is not due to lack of availability of material. Great Sports Infra has been a first mover in this category who started exploring ways to improve sports infrastructure in the country. It started with introduction of new-generation artificial grass from the USA called FieldTurf. FieldTurf or synthetic turf carries all the biomechanical properties of natural grass and is much more resilient. Requiring virtually low-to-no maintenance, the turf can be used for multi-sport and multi-purpose. Students playing on it are less prone to injuries and can play on the field 24/7. FIFA, FIH and ITF standard products allow multiple sports like Football, Hockey, Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton, etc. and can also be used for non-sport usage like assemblies, annual day programmes, student get-together, farewell parties, college fests etc.

Another innovative product the company has brought to India is SnapSports, interlocking modular sports flooring. This product is very easy to install or uninstall, it has excellent all-weather suitability, is very aesthetically pleasing and has a warranty of over 16 years, thereby providing the best return on Investment. Approved by FIBA, IHF and ITF, SnapSports is the ideal choice for all sports lovers – from amateurs to professionals. Many educational institutes and sports facilities in India have these surfaces installed and are now cultivating world class athletes who enter international level games on a familiar ground.

Running tracks are not just for sprinters and Olympians. Great Sport’s Infra’s synthetic athletic tracks are for all – amateur, trainers and professional. It is also for those who are new to the sport or a seasoned runner who hasn’t run laps for quite sometime. Students love these tracks because of its versatility and flexibility in usage. These IAAF standard tracks can be laid for 200m and 400m as well.

With these proactive initiatives and product introductions, Indian sports infrastructure now has possibilities that didn’t exist 10 years back. And now is the time to make use of it.

Great sports Infra has been widely accepted by the education sector. The company has provided these innovative sports infrastructure solutions to IIT Madras, NIT Warangal, Inventure Academy, Manipal University, BITS Pilani, Miranda House, Symbiosis International University, Chowgule College, Indian School of Business, College of Science and Technology (Siliguri), Regency Institute of Sports & Culture, TISB, Bishop Cotton School, Indus School, French International School, Jain International School, Global Public School, MDS, Euro Kids, Indian Education Society, Geetanjali International School, Greenwood, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Brigade International School, Kidzee, Aryan School, NH Gurukul, and many more.

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Pradeep ‘Baba’ Madhok, President, Dalimss Sunbeam Group of Schools, Varanasi, believes that developing years of the child is the stepping stone to learn lessons of life. While speaking to Elets News Network (ENN), he tells the vision of Dalimss Sunbeam Group of Schools

A school is always a ‘world in miniature’ where one receives ‘training for life’, where effective meaningful and joyful learning takes place. It is here that we begin to learn our lessons of life – to accept challenges, face competition and rejoice at victory and triumph.

Education shapes great minds, sets landmarks and changes the course of history. Dalimss Sunbeam Group of Schools is a brand, known in the field of education and hence we are concerned for your children and their success. Our chief aim is to create human beings who are capable of doing many things. We insist on developing positive attitude to think analyze and act logically with reverence and respect for national integration. Dalimss Sunbeam enjoys an excellent profile among educational institutions of eastern U. P. We equip the students to tread the path less travelled by and achieve excellence in their chosen path.

Our objective is to foster the students’ spirit of enquiry and scientific wisdom. We provide the children with ample opportunities within and outside the school premises to explore, observe and experiment with the ideas. The holistic education at the school develops strong ethical and moral values in the students. Our dedicated team of teaching and non-teaching staff works relentlessly to make your wards, leaders of the society.

We are proud that Dalimss Sunbeam has a diverse range of good schools. The system works on the parental preference model which gives you an opportunity to express your preferences. No matter what are you trying to do, there are only three important steps that you need to take. Get organised, stay focused and get it done.

Dalimss Sunbeam is located on the GT Road and is spread out in more than 10 acres of lush green land. The school has a big playground along with Basketball court, Volleyball court, Boxing arena, where students are trained by international coaches in their respective fields. Our students not only participate in CBSE Cluster Meets but qualify for nationals as well. Our school has also produced many national fame players in various sports.

In our campus, there is a beautiful swimming pool which offers the students to the best exercise. School has a world class gym which has produced a number of body builders. In Academic field our students take part in all standard competitions, who put their best and come out with flying colours.

Dalimss Sunbeam School has well equipped laboratories, Digi classes, language lab, where children explore the world. We have separate lab facilities for Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The labs have all facilities as per CBSE norms. All classrooms have smart board facilities with syllabus, content and method for easy and effective learning.

Since long school has been producing many students who scored well during class XII Board exam, many scholars have qualified for IIT’s

AIPMT the list is lengthy. Dalimss is one of the institutions where meritorious and weak students are taken care of their better results while maintaining high standard of teaching. All faculty members are working hard with full potential, integrity and with soft heart to fulfill the demand of teaching with the incessant and whole hearted support of the management.

With curious learners, committed teachers and zealous patrons, Dalimss Sunbeam has only one direction to scale that is upwards. We initiate our best to emphasize on quality education based on hard work, duty, devotion and discipline that we might shape our children as bonafide citizens of the country. We expect our students to be the strongest pillars of development and advancement in all walks of life.