Pandemonium in Disguise

Henry A. Kissinger, a Nobel Prize Awardee, who is a diplomat and a social scientist once, said that each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. How truly it suits the scenario of yearly school admissions that strike a commotion, a sense of pandemonium amongst the parents who are working hard enough just so that they can provide a decent lifestyle and a good school for their child, whom they wished, would become not only a good son or a daughter, but a good educated human being, educated well-enough to be able to empower those who are oppressed and need to be uplifted in the society.

In India, academic year commences from the month of march every year, and new students are taken into different schools based on a competitive entrance or oral examination that helps the school administration to choose the best candidates for their school. There are several procedures that need to be fulfilled in order to get admission in a school and every school ensures that the criteria’s are met before taking in those students. The school admissions 2014 in Bangalore is also gearing up, as parents are running helter-skelter in order to get all the required documents, preparing their children for mock interviews, doing everything they can to ensure a brighter future for the child.

March is a very busy season for all schools, because just before schools reopen for a new academic year, there are frequent visitors at school, most of them being parents, who come with their children to buy the school books, bags and other academic requirements that are usually purchased from the school’s stationary office. A research study has suggested that most kids are afraid to face their interviews during school admissions not because of their own fear, but because they see their parents getting paranoid.

It is highly essential for parents to understand that they should be calm and composed and not show their feelings before their children as it may affect their state of mind. With technology advancing at super speed, the entire process has become quite painless. School’s websites have an open forum to fill admission forms, declare important dates of exams or interviews with parents. Payment of fees is also becoming a cakewalk, as online payments and transfers of money enable and timely access to the parents to submit their child’s schools fee.

Every parent is attracted to any school that not only offers them best and costly things for their child, but has had a good academic performance in the successive batches of students that passed out from the school. So, this criterion requires every school to come up with their own mission, vision and core values for the school. Also, with a regular, formal pattern of studying that convinces the parents that the child is in good hands and his future is not in doldrums.

The schools which rule the sector of education are mainly those schools, who have paid great attention over the administration, staff and other ground staff selection that forms the base of any organisation. Secondly, those who ensure learning along with co-curricular development of the child pertaining to any area of interest the child wishes to be a part of.

Simon Ross is a content writer and has been working with Bangalore based schools, providing information to the websites of many schools. He is well aware of the admission procedures that happens in the schools, he promotes schools, on the basis of their deliverance in the education sector over the past few years and how they handle the children.

Glorious Academia in Schools

Every parent sends their child to school, with the aim of seeing the child become knowledgeable and at the same time learn to understand the nitty gritty of the world in matters that were quite secluded from the domain of the little ones. CBSE Schools in Bangalore cater to a wide spectrum, however there is an integral part where the present India lacks and that is in the field of academics. Currently, there is a crunch of good educators who could deliver a great learning procedure for the children.

There are many career options that are soon forgotten and people are stepping forward to take up occupational course. One amongst such an occupation is that of the researchers and scientists. There are hardly any students who are indulging in this great work of research and development and invention.

There was an era when people like Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilee, James Maxwell and several other scientists who have helped to shape the world history in several ways through their constant researches. Our Ex-President A.P.J Abdul Kalam is a scientist and has given his time and effort into creating some of the missiles of India that has helped India to achieve the status of a nuclear power company.

Many people have had to give up their family and social lives in order to work for their country’s growth and benefit. Lilavati’s Daughter’s by C.V Subramanian is a collection of biographical essays of women who have excelled in the field of science and technology and have carved a niche for themselves in this world, yet they have lost a major portion of their life, but that does not make them sad, indeed they have overcome the troubles of their lives and have emerged victorious for the world to know what they have done for their motherland.

For student’s it should be taken as a form of inspiration to draw from and to get motivated to work in ways that would help their country in some way or the other. As a matter of fact, the schools should help the students who are interested in science and research work to provide them with more information on this subject, help them with career counsellors and other guidance that is necessary for them to be aware of the many prospects that research can offer.

Also there are several course like Clinical Research, where students are giving training on how to monitor the doctors who conduct medical research of new drugs on patients and how during the trials the patients recovery or deterioration from the intake of that drug is recorded that is filed and sent to the laboratories for further testing of the drug and then its release into the market. There are several interesting aspects that are associated with research and it is not to be mistaken as a dry and boring field, because this field has the potential to do wonder’s that no other occupation could with the expected impact.

Indian employment sector is flooding with both private and public sector jobs, but unfortunately there is a lack of manpower which exists due to an inadequate educational competency. There is a high dropout rate in schools of mostly girls who belong to semi-rural areas. In a country like India, we still consider it as a liability to teach girl child, allow her to have a bright future in learning.

Radhika Verma is a social activist and a counsellor in various schools, mostly catering to educating the rural and semi-rural population. She believes that through combined efforts can we be able to bring about a change in the thinking of the people within our society.

Global Peace Campaign by School Students in India

India is home to millions of schools, which are public, private, ICSE and CBSE  International Schools, which are at the helm of managing important affairs in order to impart an internationally recognized level of education to the children in India. Such schools are trying to inculcate the habit of global awareness amongst the students, by organising and also leading global eco-environment friendly and peace-keeping campaigns that are acting as catalysts to revive the lost passion for working towards creating a better place to live, through our own small ways.

India is the third most populated country in the world and according to the Global Peace Index, which shows India to be in the top 20 violent countries in the world. With the advent of recent events taking place showing the growing rate of criminal cases in our country and especially highlighted area of Delhi, which is the Capital of India. Criminal offences are becoming frequent occurrence’s, especially against women and children, like rape, sexual abuse, road harassment, molestation, dowry deaths, female infanticide, etc. 

It is high time we stayed quiet, took the blows of our chauvinistic male dominated society and felt ashamed of anything that happened with us, considering it was our fault. It’s time we voiced our opinions about the injustice hurled, our government which is failing at every level to provide a safe and secured country should be forced to take stern action against all such incidences so that it serves as a good lesson for every human being who takes the laws and life of an innocent for granted. 

These instances call for serious actions from the schools as well as from parents. The schools should incorporate martial arts training classes for its student, to enable with them self-defence skills and other ways of keeping themselves away from danger. Use of pepper sprays, red chilli powder, sharp objects and other such equipment’s are used by girls these days while travelling alone, it serves as a means of protection from strangers. But what about small kids, who are unable to express themselves mostly and are the worst affected because of their vulnerability. In such case, parents and schools should be quick to implement rules and other forms of martial arts to teach the little one to fight back when it is necessary to do so.

Especially, schools should have counselling sessions for children to make these small kids aware of the horrible activities that they are liable to face someday in their lives. Also, counsellors can also help any traumatised child to come out of any such dreadful event that has already happened. The government of India should be strict with those schools who misbehave inhumanly to the young traumatized victims. Isolation or sympathy is the last thing that the victims of any such case want. Care should be taken to have a thorough profile check of all the employees done who are recruited newly. As most cases of child molestation and harassment comes from schools. Let us take initiatives in making our country a better place to live in, without being under constant threat or fear of extinction.

Richard Mason is a martial arts expert and trainer, taking independent classes for students in various schools. He feels that along with education, students should be empowered with physical training and self-defence programmes that could ensure them their safety.