Swati Salunkhe

Education consultants, who act as guides and enablers for students, need to be dedicated and keep themselves updated, writes Aruna Rathod

Even though banking was her profession, for Swati Salunkhe, managing director, Growth Centre, her true calling came in the field of education. “The story goes 13 years back when as hort trip to USA changed a lot of things for me. I observed that almost all the universities and schools had ‘counsellors’ who addressed issues concerning the normal students. This included course selection, academic issues, peer pressure, interpersonal skills, career shifts, adjustment in another country and so … Continue Reading

King Hiero decided to place a golden crown in the temple as a gesture of thanks – offering to Gods after he won the throne of Syracuse. He made a contact at a fixed price and weighed out the gold for the contractor at the royal scale. The contractor worked on the given gold and delivered a beautiful crown equal to the weight of the gold given to him. Later, a charge was made that the contractor had removed the gold and added silver instead, to keep the weight equal. … Continue Reading

No uniform, no homework . . .finally I am a grown up! …this is the first thought that crosses most of the young minds. School life is over and the student is all set to step into the new world; away from the shield of the parents and protective school teachers. College life opens up the world of opportunity and fun for the teenager.

All mixed emotions:

The excitement is at its peak. But with this excitement comes the anxiety, the nervousness…the fear of the Unknown.  Students are generally scared, excited, skeptical, anxious … Continue Reading

BIOINFORMATICS

Introduction:

In last decade, Bioinformatics has emerged as a new discipline. In simple terms Bioinformatics combines Biology, Mathematics, and Computer software. It involves the use of information technology in studying the life sciences, a combination of IT and biotechnology.  Thus one can say that Bioinformatics is the convergence of two technological revolutions, the explosive growth in biotechnology, paralled by the explosive growth in information technology.

Bioinformatics may therefore, be defined as a scientific discipline that encompasses all aspects of biological information, viz., acquisition, processing, storage, distribution, analysis and … Continue Reading

Rahul’s ninth standard examinations are over and before he gets his results he’s  trying to catch up with as much of play as he can, because he knows that the beginning of May would mean serious study in order to get high percentages in the tenth standard. His vacation coaching classes would begin and he is going to have to study hard as his ‘preparatory tests’ are going to be held soon.  No sooner will he adjust to his routine that school will start with a bang from day one.  … Continue Reading

Introduction
Beauty is something that almost each and every one of us has, in some form or
another.  Our External beauty is what plays a vital factor in the statement ‘First
Impressions are the most important ones, as they last the longest’.

In today’s fast pace life, exposure to pollution, and lesser and lesser time for
our personal care, the need to care for our skin texture, our hair, our
face, feet, hands ….. down to our last toe nail is a necessity rather than
the luxury of a few. And this need is easily made possible by the evolving new
field … Continue Reading

Medical Lab Technician & Medical Lab Technologist

There are two levels of medical laboratory workers–technicians and technologists. Medical technologists have more training and job responsibilities. They perform more complex tests and often supervise other laboratory workers. Technologists are often responsible for making sure that testing is done properly. For instance, Blood bank technologists determine correct blood types for transfusions. Microbiology technologists identify bacteria and other disease organisms.

Medical technicians do most of the routine laboratory testing. Technicians may prepare specimens and use machines that automatically analyze samples. They may follow detailed instructions to do tests by hand. They … Continue Reading

Marketing & Sales

The most interchangeably used courses & career with a lot similarity yet not the same.

Marketing is a total system of interacting business activities designed to plan, promote and distribute need- satisfying products and services to existing and potential consumers. Marketing broadly includes discovering the products/services customers want, producing/designing the product, pricing the product appropriately, promoting the product and selling the product to relevant customers.

Selling or sales is therefore one of the activities consisted in the broad area of marketing. Selling is the act of persuading or influencing a customer to buy (actually exchange … Continue Reading

Aircraft Engineer

 Kartik lived very close to the airport in Mumbai. Every 5 minutes he could see an aircraft either landing or taking off. It all seemed very fascinating to him. He always wondered, “how does this huge piece of machine work?” As a kid he had always played with a toy plane, dismantled it and put it back several times. But his keenness had now made him to think about it seriously. This made him look upto Aircraft Engineer as career option. Globalization of the Indian … Continue Reading

Problems, issues, concern, name it what you may are a fact of life. Facing these facts is essential but exploring solutions rather than merely living with the problems can surely reshape the face of these facts. This calls for help many a times.  The need for professional expertise in exploring solutions becomes a need of the hour. One word that comes to the mind is counselling.

Most of us have heard this term in some context but not necessarily in the right context.

Man being a social animal has many a times to put up with societal obligation … Continue Reading