Focus on Primary Education

The Adhyapana trust lent a helping hand to the initiatives in Tamilnadu Science Forum in spreading scientific awareness to the students at government schools in tamilnadu.The Science forum conducted an activity based training in the government school at Mullikulathur Village in Kanchipuram disrtict of Tamilnadu.
The Adhyapana Trust helped by partially funding the event and by participating in the training.
The Trust has been responsible in bringing this training to Mullikulathur village.It was a whole day of fun where the children were introduced to the various mysteries of science. They were thought the importance of asking the right questions.Books were distributed to encourage learning. Educational software were installed in the computers at the school. Games were conducted to stress on the importance of having fun while learning.We are hoping to participate in many such activities in the future.

Joy of giving week: Nokia donates to Adhyapana

Nokia, Bangalore donated the collections from their joy of giving week to Adhyapana.This money will be utilized for training students in English. This new initiative of Adhyapana is aimed at helping students who have done their schooling where the medium of education is not english. We will come up with a course to help these students make the transition to english medium education.
Supporting us in this initiative is Ms. Shilaja, a professional english trainer.The contributions from nokia will be utilized to fund the course for about 3 students.We thank Nokia for this noble gesture.

Adhyapana Wins the Social Enterpreneurship competition at VIT

The Adhyapana Team won this year's Social Transformers event organized by VIT university,Vellore.The event was a national level social entrepreneurship competition which attracted over 70 different entries from top colleges including IIT Bombay and COE,Pune. The Ideas of Adhyapana was unanimously chosen as the first among 16 final presentations that was short listed after 2 rounds of interviews and essays.

The judging panel consisted of a number of eminent people including

1.Mr. Charles Tsai, Global Youth Fund, Canada.
2.Mr. Vishnu Swaminathan, Change Leader- Housing For All Initiative, Ashoka Foundation.
3.Mr. Vasudev Avdhani, Advisor- NSR Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, IIM Bangalore
4.Mr. Pankaj Jain – India legal associate –Acumen Fund,Hyderabad

The Missing Link ?

Deepak discusses effective methods to understand and study sybjects in his article which appeared in today's (9/9/2010) edition of the Deccan Herald. In the article he further talks about the need to interlink all the subjects to capture the bigger picture.The complete article can be found in the following link:

http://deccanheraldepaper.com/pdf/2010/09/09/20100909e_004100.pdf

Choosing the right MBA program

An article written by Shiva on choosing the right MBA program has appeared in DH Education(the educational supplement of the Deccan Herald on 26/8/2010.In the article, Shiva discusses the different MBA programs offered in India and provides tips on how to select the right B-School.

The entire article can be found in the following links:

http://deccanheraldepaper.com/pdf/2010/08/26/20100826eA001100.pdf
http://deccanheraldepaper.com/pdf/2010/08/26/20100826e_003100.pdf

International Education

An article written by Shiva on International MBA has appeared today (19/8/2010) in the Educational Supplement -DH Education of the Deccan Herald newspaper.The article deals with the application process for International MBAs.The complete article can be found in the following link:

http://deccanheraldepaper.com/pdf/2010/08/19/20100819e_004100.pdf

Library for Engineers

The Adhyapana has started a library consisting of books that will be useful to students pursuing their diploma and degrees in engineering. The library is meant for students who need books to help them with their core courses. The students can borrow the required books at the beginning of the semester and return it at the end of the semester.
The library has been formed with the books donated by various people after they have completed their courses. We encourage everyone to donate their used books so that these can be of some help to other students. The library is solely intended to help students who cannot afford to buy books. It is currently situated in the Adhyapana Office in Jayanagar 4th T block, Bangalore.For the complete address, Kindly refer to our website.