EducationWorld Initiatives

EducationWorld initiatives for human developmentAgainst the backdrop that contemporary India hosts the largest population of adult illiterate citizens of any nation state worldwide and that an estimated 60 million children in the age group six-14 years of age are out of school, in November 1999 EducationWorld ‚ The Human Development Magazine ‚ the first periodical of this genre in India (perhaps globally) ‚ was launched with the mission statement to ” build the pressure of public opinion to make education the No.1 item on the national agenda”. Since then this publication has acquired an estimated 500,000 readers comprising academics, parents and teenage children in every state and territories of the Union of India. As our subtitle indicates, in EducationWorld we define education in the broadest sense of the word ‚ as a human development experience. Therefore in pursuit of the realisation of our mission statement, we have launched several other related initiatives during the past five years. Among them: EducationWorld Books This division was started with the publication in 2002 of the specially adapted Quality Circle Time ‚ A practical book of Circle Time lesson plans, the best-selling whole school behavioural guide written by celebrated British educationist and author Jenny Mosley. Since then almost the entire first edition of this highly appreciated Indian adaptation of Quality Circle Time has been sold. This month as part of our 5th anniversary celebrations, our second title ‚ 51 Great Careers for the 21st Century written by EducationWorld‚s careers correspondent Indra Gidwani is due out shortly. (see pp.31 and 59 of this issue). TCS-EducationWorld Teachers AwardsOn the occasion of Teacher‚s Day (September 5) this year, in collaboration with the Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ‚ India‚s largest infotech and computer software development company which has endowed a corpus fund for the purpose ‚ these awards were instituted to acknowledge and celebrate India‚s most commended teachers. Following a nation-wide press advertising campaign, nominations are pouring in from around the country. The awards will be presented on January 26 next year. (For further information see the TCS-EducationWorld Teachers Awards ad on p.63).Infosys-EducationWorld Young Achievers AwardsSimilarly we have recently signed a joint venture agreement with the Bangalore-based infotech blue-chip company Infosys Technologies Ltd which has endowed a corpus amount to acknowledge and celebrate young achievers across the country. These awards will be advertised shortly and presented after the commencement of the new academic session next year. EducationWorld-SportzVillage India collaboration agreementTo raise sports and games standards in schools and colleges across the country, we have signed a collaboration agreement to advertise and promote the range of services offered by the Bangalore-based SportzVillage India which provides expertise and standards upgradation advice to education institutions. (see ad on p.99). EducationWorld-Bhupathi Tennis Academy joint venture agreementThe Bhupathi Tennis Academy Pvt Ltd has promoted the Rs.5 crore state-of-the-art Nike-Bhupathi Tennis Village in suburban Bangalore which has nurtured India‚s top tennis stars including Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza. We have signed an agreement to promote NBTV to education institutions and parents for short-term…