Education

Everyone, right from a humanities graduate to an engineer or a commerce executive, aspires for an MBA degree. Just after the admission, students are taught main subjects, personality development, understanding human psychology as well as the functioning of the economy. A management degree not only helps to find a lucrative job but also makes you a more mature individual as you are taught to manage people and situations. In today's corporate world, getting a management degree is crucial for attaining the senior-most position in good organizations. Earning an MBA degree not only promises an individual a secure job but also ensures his growth and success in today's job market. Most MBA programs provide you with training in basic business principles needed by any manager including, corporate finance, economics, strategic planning, marketing and basic accounting. However, if you know which career field you are interested in, selecting a specific MBA program will allow you to g...

Professor James Tooley of the Newcastle University has been studying the educational pattern in India for some time. He has an advice for his countrymen that India could teach a thing or two to Britons about educating their people in England. He also feels that the Indian experience could be very useful for many other developing countries. This might sound preposterous when most Indians would want to believe that Indian educational system needs to borrow ideas from the West. I was sorry to read a write up by an Indian writer in The Statesman the other day, wherein the person was pontificating on the virtues of govt. schools and colleges and was very critical of private initiative in education in this country. I did reply to the editor explaining the other side of the coin. How I wish our writers really worked hard to get to the bottom of the problem before writing about any field that is new to them. I suppose the learned journalist did not see the brighter side of higher education i...