Social Entrepreneurship is an interesting subject and an increasingly popular career option. Its underlying principles, of professionalism and sustainability, have strongly influenced the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Social Entrepreneurship is an interesting subject and an increasingly popular career option. Its underlying principles, of professionalism and sustainability, have strongly influenced the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
A philanthropic enterprise is like a tree. Years of effort are devoted to it, in the hope that it will bear fruit. Eventually the time comes, when we begin to see the rewards.
How many times have we heard about the technology ban in school or even college classrooms? Even in this digital era, students are forced to copy lessons from books, instead of actually applying their education in real life.
To many people, it often seems like the villages of India are holding back. Sitting in their air-conditioned rooms, they look down on the poor and the illiterate masses and shake their heads, half in anger, half in sorrow. If the village is in Bihar, their feelings of despair increase.
A group of young adults have gathered around in a town hall like setting to discuss their school’s curriculum. It looks like a normal meeting of school patrons discussing the school’s functioning with minutes of meeting being jotted down by a secretary.
“If you fail, we take you. If you pass, we may consider you.”
Sonam Wangchuk first came into the national spotlight in 2009, when his story inspired the character Phunsukh Wangdu in the film 3 Idiots. Though this was never acknowledged, the similarities are hard to miss. But his real story is far more interesting than any film could be.
Language is a tool that needs to be used very carefully in order to break gender stereotypes. What we express through our writing and through the words we speak in our day-to-day lives can reinforce stereotypes sub-consciously.
“If you fail, we take you. If you pass, we may consider you.”
“If the children cannot go to school, the school must go to the children.”
She often saw the poor children standing outside the gate of her school, looking in hopefully. She could not take them in because she knew the other parents would never allow it.
VidyaGyan is a Leadership Academy for meritorious rural children. An initiative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, it is a radical social experiment in nurturing leadership from amongst highly gifted rural poor children, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Shiv Nadar Foundation has been nurturing children including underprivileged but meritorious rural children to become an agent of change for their societies through education
6th August 2018, Delhi: The capital today saw the coming together of Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Hon’ble Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs; Mrs Roshni Nadar Malhotra, CEO of HCL Corporation & Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation; Shri Durga Shanker Mishra (Secretary, MoHUA) along with the cast & crew of the internationally acclaimed film Halkaa as they launched the most awaited trailer of the movie amongst 200 city kids.
Our students make us proud everywhere they go. As this year’s valedictorian from VidyaGyan Bulandshahr, Sudeeksha had the opportunity to speak about her experiences at VidyaGyan and say goodbye to her peers.
Who better to guide the leaders of tomorrow than someone who has lead a multi-million brand through turmoil and brought stability?
The experience and life of Ms. Geeta Goel, Country Director, India, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation makes for a story that we can hear for ages.
As the day came to an end, the bittersweet feeling of separation that we feel every year came back.
A light of inspiration since the inception of VidyaGyan, Roshni Nadar Malhotra has always been the role model our students look up to.
Every year, we take in students that we believe will be overachievers in the future. Our pride when seeing them succeed is not something that can be described easily.
Every year, we get bigger and better. And the results of our progress are best summarized in the VidyaGyan progress report.
It’s possible to highlight serious topics in a fun manner. Watch how we staged a Nukkad Naatak for young minds to curb open defecation. Watch Halkaa on 7th September. Book your tickets now.
363 students graduate with an average score of 87%
32 students score 100 marks in various subjects while 134 scored above 90%
Swami Vivekananda was a teacher on a grand scale. He tried to teach us how to be a great nation. Like many great men, he is often quoted and rarely studied.
There are few people in the world who have no enemies. Many have found themselves in a position where they ask, how do I defeat them? Chanakya’s Artha Shastra is a seminal Indian text that attempts to answer this. Few other works, before or since, have answered it as comprehensively.
Savitribai Phule was one of India’s greatest women, honoured in her native Maharashtra, but largely forgotten by the rest of us.
In modern India, the Western model of education has had the upper hand since independence. It is now being challenged by traditional models and beliefs.
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame till the end of his life.” (Plato)
Ramakrishna Paramhansa is a much beloved figure in Bengal, remembered with affection for his good humour, his loving personality, and the penetrating simplicity of his insight.
Discover the magic of everyday science and find out what keeps birds from being electrocuted on their favourite spot – power lines.
Discover the magic of everyday science and find out what those fluffs of white in the sky are made of!
Explore the magic of everyday science and find out how gases behave differently than liquids!
#STEMeducation has the power to re-create the future. Watch how students at VidyaGyan used their knowledge in STEM to transform the environment and communities around them. #EducationTransforms
Watch as the students of VidyaGyan prove that #STEM is not just another boring subject, but instead it is a fun and interactive way to learn about the practical world around us and find creative solutions for our everyday problems. #EducationTransforms
Anshuman is a student of VidyaGyan, Sitapur. He hails from eastern UP and his village is located in one of the worst drought-hit areas of the State.
STEM is a term used to “address education policy and curriculum choices in schools, to improve competitiveness in science and technology development.”, which basically means that STEM is an initiative that provides equal opportunities to students to grow, learn and benefit from the quality education provided under STEM by emphasising mainly on the subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
At the various institutions that are a part of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, we have always tried to instill the idea of a scientific education into our students as fun and entertaining.
We, at Shiv Nadar Foundation are known for motivating our students to continually expand their horizons and use the benefits of the holistic education provided at our various schools and institutions for furthering our society as a whole.
VidyaGyan students help the people of Dulhera Village in Uttar Pradesh by innovating and implementing the smokeless chulha to protect them from continual smoke inhalation. #EducationTransforms
Like every other student, I wait for my summer vacations throughout the year. The weather turns and the schools goes into recess for over two months.
Stanford alumnus, Sriram Raghavan, said when it came to choosing a topic for his TEDxShivNadarUniversity talk, he felt lazy and challenged. Lazy because he chose a topic related to his career and challenged because the audience included people from all walks of life which would make it difficult for him to put his message out.
Trustee and Chief of Operations of Sambandh Health Foundation, Sanjay Seth’s TEDxShivNadarUniversity talk was no less of a wake-up call.
A single mother and Corporate Vice President at Delton Cables Limited, Garima Avtar is known for something unimaginable.
Karan Vaish is the lead systems engineer for Lunar Rover – ECA or Ek Choti Si Asha. Vaish is a part of TeamIndus, India’s only – albeit last minute – entry to Google Lunar Xprize.
Indian documentary filmmaker and human rights activist, Stalin K uses his media to depict the present, the unorthodox and the controversial topics of the Indian society that are bound to face criticism.
