XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi (3 October to 14 October, 2010)

Commonwealth Games is a unique, world class multi-sports event which is held once every four years. The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. Delhi and India will be on ‘the world stage’ in October 2010.The next Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

It is often referred to as the ‘Friendly Games’.  The core values of the Commonwealth Games Federation are:

-          HUMANITY

-          EQUALITY

-          DESTINY

These values help to inspire & unite millions of People within the Commonwealth countries.

The Mascot of 2010 Commonwealth Games is Shera, The Tiger. As on today, there are only 67 days left for one of the world’s biggest sports extravaganza to unfold & excitement is growing with each passing day amongst all Indians.

The Games will showcase India’s rising economic power, while expecting two million tourists in New Delhi, as well as about 10,000 athletes from 71 teams representing 54 Commonwealth member states for the Games.

The Queen’s Baton Relay has already arrived in India for its 100 day National tour that commenced from Buckingham Palace, London, on the 29th of October 2009.

With lacs of people turning out on the streets of India, it is a sight to watch its welcome in India’s 28 states and seven union territories, plus many other cities along the way, covering more than 20,000 km.

The Queen’s Baton Relay serves a functional purpose in carrying Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s ‘message to the athletes’ from Buckingham Palace in London to the opening ceremony of the Games at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.

Over 300 students of UEI Global from all over India will congregate in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games. It will be the first interaction of this scale across all of UEI Global! We hope to make CWG 2010 a roaring success and look forward to your enthusiastic
participation!

UEI Global Announces Special Pricing For Girls

A harsh but unfortunate reality of our times is, that women have much lower literacy rate than men, especially in a conservative developing country like India. Far fewer girls are enrolled in the schools, and many of them drop out. According to a 1998 report by U.S. Department of Commerce, the chief barrier to female education in India are inadequate school facilities, shortage of female teachers and gender bias in curriculum, and the worst and most prevalent of all, poverty. Conservative cultural attitudes, especially among the rural areas, prevent many girls from attending school.

The number of literate women among the female population of India was between 2-6% from the British Raj onwards to the formation of the Republic of India in 1947. Concerted efforts led to improvement from 15.3% in 1961 to 28.5% in 1981. By 2001 literacy for women had exceeded 50% of the overall female population, though these statistics were still very low compared to world standards and even male literacy within India. Indian women like Indray Nooyi, Kalpana Chawla, Indra Gandhi, Parmeshwar Godrej, and Aishwarya Rai have carved a niche for themselves among every possible field from business to politics to entertainment to science. However, these achievements are few and far in between, and the majority of the female population is still denied the equal opportunities it so rightly deserves.

Currently, a very small proportion of both men and women have a college education, just over 3 percent of men and 1 percent of women. Although a very small proportion of the Indian population attends college, women account for only a third of the students at this level (Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), 1993).

Recently the Indian government has launched Saakshar Bharat Mission for Female Literacy. This mission aims to bring down female illiteracy by half of its present level. However, according to prominent educator Sita Anantha Raman, while the educated Indian women workforce maintains professionalism, the men outnumber them in most fields and, in some cases, receive higher income for the same positions.

To promote this cause further – UEI Global has announced an across the board 25 % lower tuition fee for all girl students, for all degree programs! This latest endeavour is one is a series of efforts from our side to provide quality education to one and all. Among them is the innovative student financing plan for needy students based on not just family and income background but the likelihood of the contender’s success or failure at the workplace. Also with the UEI Global Motto of “Education to Employment” we then proceed to ensure that our students are proficient in skills required to actually succeed in their chosen professions. The biggest factor we follow in this is to teach the student a working knowledge of English and develop their personality and etiquette keeping success in the job interview as the goal.

This measure is in keeping with the larger goal of UEI Global to promote equitable education across all of the sections of society. Primary education one can only hope will be taken care of by the government, with the implementation of the Right to Education Act. Higher education may still seem like a distant dream to many girls in India, with this initiative we hope to do our bit in making it a little more achievable. We hope that more private institutions will follow our example, since a quality education leading to employment for all is the only way ahead for a country like ours to prosper.

Student Financing

Banks have been offering financing to many students but there still does not seem to be a lot of consistency and clarity in the process. A few dedicated student loan companies like Credila have emerged. They do a good job because of their narrow focus, but still mostly focus on the high-end customer looking for large loans /  going abroad etc.

The other lot that finds financing easily is the students who get accepted into the IITs and the IIMs, where the future prospects are extremely bright and risk very low.

However, as one comes down the pyramid there is a large mass of average to above-average students who come from very middle-class backgrounds. These people often come from less organized backgrounds such as farming or small local businesses like tent houses or Kirana stores. The documentation of earnings and even bank accounts are often iffy in such cases. However, these students are often very deserving of student loans. Unfortunately, the current systems essentially turns these students away. They do not fit into the clean, formal boxes created by banks based on which approval is provided. In Mohammad Yunus’s words, only those who do not need loans are actually loan worthy !!

At UEI Global we have come up with an innovative student financing offer specifically to meet the needs of such needy students. UEI evaluates a student’s credit worthiness not just on the basis of the parents income and background, but also adds on a qualitative aspect of evaluating the students likelihood of success or failure in the workplace. In our view that should be the first criteria – especially for a student loan !! This leads UEI Global to view students differently, and offer financing on a very different and unique set of parameters. The financing in then extended to the student based on an assessment of future growth as a major factor in addition to the guardians paying ability.

With the UEI Global Motto of “Education to Employment” we then proceed to ensure that our students have the skills to actually succeed in the workplace. The biggest factor in this is to teach the student English and develop their personality keeping success in the job interview as the goal.

This venture of education financing is a pioneering effort from UEI Global, and one that  we believe is an enabler for many students who might otherwise not have access to quality education. Unfortunately, one UEI Global offering such a benefit – even across 16 locations – will not be enough. We hope that other major players in the industry soon start to follow our example – only that will have a significant impact on bringing more deserving students into the mainstream.

The UEI Global Food Festival – Rohini

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The students of UEI Global had organised a food festival at the Rohini Institute, New Delhi on the 12th of June, 2010. The theme was exotic Hawaiian, and the campus was unrecognizable in the garb of swaying palm trees and the blue ocean. The event was conducted as a recreational as well as training exercise for the students of UEI.

A number of spectacular dishes were prepared, each one unique to every student. In fact the students were the heroes of that day, since it was an entirely student led event. The faculty provided valuable guidance, but it was the students who performed the complete process of planning and implementing the festival. The turnout of over eighty people made it a grand success not only academic wise and entertainment wise but monetarily as well, since the tickets were sold at Rs.200/- each.

We hope the students of UEI have many more such delightful events coming up as admissions are still open for a fresh batch just about to start on the 28th of June, 2010. We’ll keep you posted!

Cheers.

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