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5 Quick Tips to Tackle Standardized Tests: The College Board

16 May

Standardized tests are a critical component of your application to universities abroad – whether it’s the SAT or ACT for undergraduate admissions to the US, the GMAT, or the GRE for postgraduate admissions worldwide. Taking standardized tests are often projected as being overwhelming, stress-filled experiences, but they don’t need to be. Here are 5 tips to […]

Creating a new model for Education

15 May

How can we create models of learning and entrepreneurship through utilization of the private sector? We asked Gurjit Singh Lalli, Director at the Asia-Scotland Institute  for his take. Lalli is also Director of an USD $80 million social investment fund, and Ambassador at HRH Prince Charles Youth Business Trust, and Co-Founder of Power of Youth, […]

Building Smart Cities: Amitabh Kant

8 May

Excerpt from a panel session ‘Smart Cities and Economic Corridors‘ which took place at the Salwan Media One Globe 2014 Conference, held in February 2014 at The Imperial in New Delhi. Amitabh Kant, CEO and Managing Director, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited (DMICDC) “You know when cities were made across Europe and America, […]

Straight Talk: Do College Rankings Matter? Part 2

6 May

Straight Talk: Do College Rankings Matter? [Part 2 in a 2 part series] By Pushkar   Very few Indian colleges and universities offer good quality education. Most institutions, even if they are ranked by national magazines or have won some award or another, do not provide the knowledge and skills you need to become employable. […]

Straight Talk: Do College Rankings Matter?

17 Apr

Straight Talk: Do College Rankings Matter? [Part 1 in a 2 part series] By Pushkar Prospective students should not decide where to study based on college rankings alone. College and university rankings have become a routine feature of India’s higher education landscape. Magazines such as India Today, Outlook and Careers 360 prepare all-India rankings on an annual basis […]

A Curriculum Which Matters

27 Mar

By Nikhil Mahen How many of us today are historians? How many of us use calculus in our every day work? Why do we study dead people, or things which don’t appear to affect our daily lives – like physics? Who cares how far the ball can roll or how much x and y are […]

College Board’s AP Exam Registration Opens

12 Feb

High School students throughout India can now register for College Board’s Advanced Placement® (AP®) Exams in 22 different subjects. AP Exams are scheduled for May 5-16, 2014, and the deadline for registration is March 26, 2014. The AP Exams are securely administered at authorized USIEF centres and schools in 11 cities across India – Ahmedabad, […]

Breaking Up on Facebook: A Conversation

9 Jan

Breaking Up on Facebook A Conversation

Courtesy of Tom McBride at www.themindsetlist.com How Today’s Millennials Fall Out of Love: An Intergenerational Conversation Between Jeanette Geraci and Tom McBride Millennial Jeanette Geraci, has attended Beloit, is a 2011 graduate of Goddard, and is currently a writer living in New York. Baby Boomer Tom McBride is co-author of the annual Beloit College Mindset […]

Do Schools Kill Creativity? : Sir Ken Robinson

28 Aug

One of the most watched TED Talks of all time.