February 2011 (Click to browse sections)    

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February 2011

Letter from the Editor
Editorial
Mailbox
Education News
Education Notes
Education Briefs
Expert Comment
Young Achievers
Institution Profile
Cover Story
Career Focus
Sports Education
People
International News
Teacher-to-Teacher
Special Report
Leisure & Travel
Books
Eduleader Bytes
Postscript

Institution Profile

Manipal University, Bangalore Campus

In 2007 Manipal University (estb.1942), arguably the country's most respected private varsity, inaugurated its Bangalore campus to provide media and entertainment degree programmes

Cover Story

Success formula of India’s most admired day schools chain

Over the past six decades since the Delhi Public School, Mathura Road admitted its first batch of students, the number of DPS licensed/affiliated schools in India and abroad has risen to 140. Today they are the most preferred choice of India's upwardly mobile urban middle class

Career Focus

Demand upswing for film editors

With the Indian film industry having emerged as the largest in the world and the citizenry being offered the choice of over 515 television channels, professionally qualified film editors are much sought after

Teacher-to-Teacher

Learning to leverage failure

Baba Shiv is Sanwa Bank professor of marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management, USA
 

Special Report

Need for genuinely inclusive debate

The HER Bill 2010, which proposes the creation of a single powerful National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to supervise and regulate higher education across the spectrum,  needs inclusive and rigorous debate to iron out its flaws and catalyse the overdue reform of India’s rapidly obsolescing tertiary education system

Leisure & Travel

Untrodden paths of Ladakh district

On his third visit to the region Yoginder Sikand avoids the tourist trails of the Ladakh district which encompasses a massive 70 percent of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, but hosts less than 2 percent of its population