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March 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
Teacher-to-Teacher
International News
Special Report
Leisure & Travel
Books
Eduleader Bytes
Postscript

Institution Profile

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Routinely ranked among the country’s top 25 B-schools, SIBM is a constituent institution of the Pune-based Symbiosis Group which comprises 35 institutions with 27,000 enroled students

Cover Story

Pearson Group’s megabucks rollout

By its recent acquisition of TutorVista in the largest ever one-time investment in India's education sector, the London-based Pearson Plc — the world’s largest education and publishing conglomerate (revenue: Rs.40,880 crore in 2009) — committed itself to active involvement with Indian education

Career Focus

Resurgent demand for engineers

Engineering jobs are no more about improving shopfloor production but also about product design, innovation, cost reduction and improved organisational and employee productivity. Career growth opportunities for professionally qualified engineers have multiplied considerably

Teacher-to-Teacher

Dangerous humanities neglect

Dev Lahiri is principal of the Welham Boys School, Dehradun

Special Report

ASER 2010: Shocking primary learning report card

Despite an estimated Rs.1,000,000 crore having been poured into the country’s 1.25 million government primary schools over the past decade, there’s little to show for it. On the contrary, ASER 2010 indicates that learning outcomes in the country’s 1.05 million rural primaries have gone from bad to worse

Leisure & Travel

Jerusalem the Golden

Contemporary jerusalem is not only the sacred city of the Jewish people worldwide but also the second holiest city of the global Christian community after the Vatican and the third holy city of Islam after Mecca and Medina