Campus placements are slowing getting out of fashion, pandemic has accelerated the trend Sandeep Jain, founder-CEO of  GeeksforGeeks, is a success story  that goes beyond inspiring millions of last mile students of this country to showcase the futuristic power of galloping gig economy in disrupting brick and mortar model of learning/teaching. From studying at a private tier-3 engineering college in …

Dr. Amarendra Kumar, a Fellow Member of Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of India (CMA) and currently a Finance Advisor in DXC Technology, Bangalore, was elected as President of Indian Society of Management Accountants (ISMA) this year. He is also in mentor board of Young Entrepreneurs Network-India. Autar Nehru in an email interview, asked him about the impact of …

Education has had a huge positive impact in Mukesh Sharma’s life which was otherwise a very humble one in Pilani, Rajasthan. This early and strong association with education nurtured his passion to start a school, Prometheus in Noida, that will enable several children follow their dreams through international standard pedagogies.  Mukesh Sharma, also the founding CEO of Noida based QA …

Geeta Dharmarajan, the founder president, publisher and editor-in-chief of Katha, a nonprofit social enterprise, is also a former honorary chairperson of National Bal Bhavan. Easily one of the finest authors of children’s books in contemporary India, she is the person behind the Katha Prize Stories, again a watershed in publishing history of the country where some of the best regional stories …

Harjiv Singh, Founder and CEO, BrainGain Global who also serves on the advisory board of India Knowledge@Wharton and has been a guest faculty at DukeCE, talks about his startup and emerging scenario How do you see the spread of the coronavirus impacting mobility and as such overseas education globally? The pandemic caused by the coronavirus is having and will have …

Rethink education is already shaping a new education delivery order. Among the new age young universities in the country is Jaipur-based JK Lakshmipat University (esb 2011) offering technology as well management courses. Autar Nehru spoke to Asheesh Gupta,  Pro Vice-Chancellor, JKLU, also a former Consultant at McKinsey & Company and Director of McKinsey’s Knowledge & Research Centres in India to get …