Promoting Excellence in School Education
N Sankar, The Sanmar Group, presenting a certifi cate to T S Vasuki Ammai, Headmistress, Corporation High School, Arthoon Road, Royapuram, for participating in the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative for Promoting Excellence in School Education, at a function in Chennai.
The fourth annual function of the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative for Promoting Excellence in School Education was held at Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School (MCCHSS) in Chennai on the 3 August 07. The event was organised by the Kuruvila Jacob Memorial Educational Trust.
The Kuruvila Jacob Initiative helps schools to apply Total Quality Management methodologies for education excellence in line with international standards. These are developed with the help of the CII Institute of Quality.
Two clusters of ten Chennai City Corporation schools each have been formed and a third will be formed during the current year. Certifi cates and plaques were given away to heads of schools that had partnered in the initiative. N Sankar, Chairman, The Sanmar Group, Darius Forbes, Chairman Emeritus, Forbes Marshall Group, N Murali and S Viji, convenors, Kuruvila Jacob Memorial Educational Trust, and others were present at the occasion.
Speaking at the event, N Sankar brought back memories of Kuruvila Jacob, the impact he still commands among the ‘old- boys’ and his role as an educationist which had helped in shaping the young minds that led India to where it is today.
“Education in the country is today at crossroads. India’s strides in the international are naare,undoubtedly due to our solid educationalsystem. How ever, this system today is be set by three major issues privatisation reservation and language. Unless we resolve these issues on a pragmatic basis early, India is in real danger of losing the advantage it enjoys from its educational system. The situation cries for a person like Mr Jacob to be involved. He put education in the forefront as the main objective, and handled all other issues as peripheral. Such an approach is necessary today”. N Sankar,The Sanmar Group