Sixteen teams – 1 international and 3 out-of-state schools, 3 days of good football, loads of singing and dancing and art… All this and more at the Parikrma Champions League 2018. This year the Equality Cup went to Inventure Academy and the Runner-up Cup to St Xavier’s from Belgaum. Vidyaniketan School bagged the third position. We would like to thank the chief guests: Kushal Das,…
Two teams comprising of 6 first-year students each of Parikrma Junior College participated in the Inventure Changemaker Challenge 2018, conducted by Inventure Academy, to recognize and provide funding to the best teams of young people who come up with sustainable ideas to make noticeable changes in the society. It started with entering online applications with 48 other teams, followed by getting selected in the top…
We are super thrilled to inform you that two of our schools, the Nandini Layout and Koramangala Centres just won the International School Awards – by British Council accredited for the period of 2018 – 21. The British Council International School Award (ISA) is a benchmarking scheme that accredits schools as having an outstanding level of support for nurturing global citizenship in young people and…
Nervous new students and proud parents sit in rows and are welcomed by the inspirational dean. We are at a world-class university, with a strong reputation and great outcomes for alumni. A final polite request was given to parents: please avoid WhatsApping your children – and emailing professors – during classes. Give students their independence and trust the faculty. Our student’s mother was not in…
Two hundred students from schools in Bangalore including 7 government schools get an opportunity to understand wildlife and conservation, its multiple facets first-hand through leading scientists of the city! For the very first time… A Nobel Laureate visited and interacted with our children! Professor Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an American and British structural biologist of Indian origin. He was elected President of the Royal Society…
I remember when I was a little girl in school, we would have speakers who would come and tell us about their work. On one such occasion, I got the chance of listening to an environmental engineer who was in the team that cleaned up Powai Lake in Mumbai. She took us through her experiences in cleaning the lake. She spoke to us about the…
Founder Shukla Bose was invited to give a talk at the FUSO, Tokyo 2019.
Innovations Conclave 2019 Under the aegis of Global Citizenship Education, a collaborative initiative between Parikrma Humanity Foundation & Tata Communications, through Innovations Conclave we want to attempt reversing thinking trends across schools. Last year, being the first ever event, saw active participation of 45 schools in Bangalore, this year we have 83 applications and we are thrilled. Schools from Pune, Dharmapuri, Dubai and London are…
In September 2017, after our house got flooded by Hurricane Irma, I quickly realized that my plans to attend the World Youth Championship in Uruguay were over. I remember being very disappointed. However, as our friends helped us recover over the next several weeks, that disappointment gradually gave way to relief and finally gratitude. When the news on TV laid bare the extent of human…
New Education Policy Ever since the draft National Education Policy, 2019, was released on May 31, we have read many comments in the media by erudite scholars. What has been discussed is the framework and the structure of the policy, but not its spirit. Educators with great experience, some of whom I know personally, have crafted this policy. It is sad that some regions have…
