September 10

Rethink Education
Education is a unique and life changing opportunity for the teacher as well as the taught. A teacher is not just an instructor but a role model and a mind moulder for a whole generation. Think about the madarsas across the world, blaring out propaganda and enrolling the faithful en masse. Over the years, teaching in India has won for itself the dubious distinction of being the most boring job and also the least paid. Often people dismiss education in India as a legacy of the British who needed to mass produce selfimportant clerks to carry out boring transactions in English in dreary government offices across small towns and tehsils across the sub-continent. Obviously, "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Is that what we have been inflicting upon generations of Indians? Scratch the surface and youll realize the scenario is even worse. Many parents today are opting for home schooling over dragging their child through hell and high water to get them admitted to a good (read socially acceptable) school or college. Many students who are learning at home are also doing very well. The recent breakthrough by a Delhi boy, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik who is the youngest Indian to crack the IIT entrance exams is a tale that cannot be dismissed lightly. He was home schooled by his mother! Cities like Bangalore and Pune have scores of kids who are learning at home, helped by their parents. These kids are not being pushed into learning everything like in a school therefore, they are less burdened and pursue a more fruitful education that is focused around the areas of their strength and interest - the results are not bad at all. Does that mean that institutionalized education is on its way out? Not really. Educational institutes are important and a child needs to go to a school to be able to grow socially as a person. It is important to be a part of an institute to be able to understand the competition that he/she will have to face in the future. Shutting down of institutionalized education would leave us with the problem of dealing with the asocial and withdrawn. However, our education system needs to change and there are no two ways about it. The one-way interaction in the classrooms has to give way to a clear two-way transaction. As teachers and academicians, we have to understand that the focal point of any classroom is the students. They are our customers and they need to be satisfied and happy when they go home. We need them to be excited to come back to the classrooms everyday for roughly a decade-and-a-half if not more. Our approach towards teaching needs to be more investigative and project-oriented. Instead of teaching from the books let your students try out other possibilities like experimenting, questioning, creating and research-based outcomes. Let the education they get be useful and fruitful something they can apply in real life years after they have left their classrooms and moved on. A lot of work is being done in this direction and many schools in big cities are adopting such training methodologies. However, it is the small towns and cities that supply maximum manpower to the hubs that need help. This is where vocational training is most sought after. Here is where i360 can make a huge difference. Vocational training needs to be hands-on and relevant. This is the general target that we need to achieve at our centers across India. We need to program our courses into self help modules where the students can learn from their own mistakes. Projects, internships, simulated environments and scenario-based learning as well as game and activity based teaching can work wonders here. We have the power to turn the students who come to us into achievers - people who are sought after by the industry and feted by their peers. To achieve this, we need to walk off the beaten track and think out of the box, to spark interest, to draw the students back to us again and again. After all, someone has aptly put, I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework and therein lies the success mantra. Shoma Chakraborty

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

Franchise Front
> Entered into a New State --- Bihar with 2 centre Sign ups in Patna > Expanded presence in Rajasthan by adding Udaipur to the centre list > 3 successful centres launched at Mau, Gangtok and Jammu > Dehradun continues to lead the collection among all the centres > Aggressive marketing activities done to generate franchise enquiries and student enquiries

Ozone
> Closed Senior Level assignment in IT with a leading real estate company > Acquired 5 new clients in the last month, highest in the current fiscal

Academic Front
> Training in Delhi for CMA (first five modules) > Training at Jammu center for English and Soft Skills, CMA (first 5 modules) and Academic Docket > Training at Gangtok center for English and Soft Skills and Academic Docket > Courses made online on the Academic website: CDP

Marketing Front
Rolled out Teachers Day activities for centers

New Joinees
Mr. Sadab Hussain Saddke: COUNSELOR, Pitampura Ms. Ujjaval Sharma: COUNSELOR, Laxmi Nagar

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Its a Hattrick ! Many congratulations to Team Dehradun for the wonderful performance for the third consecutive month in a row. I wish them the very best in the coming months. Gr8 Effort ! Keep the ball rolling !!

Team Dehradun
Mr. Samit Dayal

Dharmendar Sharma has been seen as a man with a magic hand. His visualization of colors and imagination has been the core of all colours of i360. A soft spoken and simple person, Dharam is always very hard on the mouse of the computer through which he generates all the colours and graphs and shapes name it and he would do it! He has played a pioneering role of being the back bone of the organization. I wish him success and expect that he would continue adding colours to the i360 brand to make it a vibrant RAINBOW with all colours.sharp and clear.

Mr. Dharmendar Sharma

Mr. Vineet Vaidya

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Canvas Paintings by Dharmendra Sharma

Mr. Abhishek Sarkar Trainer-Dehradun

Ms. Shilpi Banerjee Trainer-Laxmi Nagar

DOB 18th February One word to describe your personality Electrifying (Please don't get shocked!!) Hobbies Listening to hard rock, reading, watching sci-fi movies List 1 thing you wish you could change about yourself Anger If you could start your own restaurant, who would be your first customer from i360? Ms. Shoma Chakraborty (She is always on time with her meals...potential sign for a loyal and regular customer ..he he he) If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be? i360 as education pioneer (will help our business!!), Performing in a Rock gig & the last wish would be to what I want & when I want If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to? I like my name (It has Aishwarya Rai's name attached to it...Its known all over the world now!!!) If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money? Buy an Island, make it a tourist spot and earn more money (will invite the entire i360 staff....paid of course! Gurcharan don't be disappointed I will give you a special discount) If aliens landed in front of you and, in exchange for anything you desire, offered you any position on their planet, what would you want? I will ask them to take me to their planet & give me the finance department (I would like to be with green martians with green money...I hope that's the color of their currency) About i360 Supernova!!! (Its an explosion of a star in space giving birth to new forms...just like i360 giving birth to fulfill desires of jobless

DOB 31st October One word to describe your personality Jovial Hobbies Cooking and Gossiping with good friends List 1 thing you wish you could change about yourself My Temperament If you could start your own restaurant, who would be your first customer from i360 Shoma Maam If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be? a) To have a Doctorate degree b) To be a successful trainer c) To have a playway school of my own If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to? I love my name Shilpi so I don't want to change it If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money I would like to have a grand bunglow, will go for world tour, will posses a luxury car and will put rest of the money in fixed deposit If aliens landed in front of you and, in exchange for anything you desire, offered you any position on their planet, what would you want? Captain of Aliens 10. About i360 It's a full fledged corporate providing all round development to the students

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