Companies must make succession planning an ongoing process

    2018-05-30T10:20:08+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

    Good corporate governance in a company includes succession planning as a vital element. Organisations that can envisage continuity of business in times of exigencies such as unexpected departures of key people are possibly following best practices. The realisation must dawn on companies to make succession planning as an ongoing process and not an adhoc event. It can serve twin purposes of maintaining continuity in leadership and developing knowledge capital for the future. Board and the CEO’s Role A company’s Chief [...]

      Illuminating India’s scientific contributions

      2018-05-28T13:10:07+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

      A brief chronicle of the country’s inventions and ideas that have been pivotal in shaping the world come to life as part of the UK-India Year of Culture. Some of the most important ideas in the history of science, technology, mathematics and engineering find their roots in India. Thanks to the influence that Indian scientific thought had on the civilisations with which it made contact, those ideas and inventions spread throughout the world. Illuminating India: 5000 years of science & [...]

        Punjab makes a play to attract Global Indians

        2018-08-01T12:54:20+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

        Captain Amarinder Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab, has launched a new ‘Connect With Your Roots’ scheme for young Global Indians to gain first-hand experience of the state. Captain Amarinder Singh used the UK as the base to kick-start his dream project for Punjabi-origin students based overseas to reconnect with their roots in their ancestral land and interact with their counterparts in Punjabi universities. Connect With Your Roots, targeted at 16 to 22-year-olds who have never visited India, will involve the state [...]

          Indian universities fall behind in global rankings

          2020-03-16T10:21:58+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

          After years of gradually creeping up the worldwide charts of higher education, India suffered a small setback in the latest ranking. India’s performance in world university rankings has registered a decline, with its share of universities falling from 31 to 30 in the global 1,000 list topped by the University of Oxford and Cambridge, according to latest data released recently. The annual ‘World University Rankings’ released by ‘Times Higher Education’ found that India’s flagship institution, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), fell from the 201-250 band to 251-300 [...]