Converging Concepts

Updated on: Monday, November 07, 2011

Recently, Pailan Group joined hands with Pearson Education Services (PES) for the first time in eastern India and this was declared at a press conference addressed by Apurba Saha, chairman of the Pailan Group and Meena Ganesh, CEO and MD of PES.

Also present at the media address was Shyam Thapa, ex-international footballer and consultant at Pailan World School (PWS), Devang Gandhi, former Indian cricketer and cricket mentor at PWS and Enrico Piperno, former national tennis champion.

Debashish Datta, veteran sports editor and director of Pailan World School, commenced the meeting announcing that this confluence that was being discussed about since the last seven months was finalised only the day before the meeting and is aimed at improving the educational standards of the institution and preparing the pupils for the global scenario.

Meena Ganesh related to us how it was a homecoming for her to be at Pailan World School since she had spent some of her memorable years here being a student of IIM-Joka. She informed that PES has spread the light of education to various age-groups and different walks of life.

About 70 countries all over the globe are glowing with the services they have been providing over the years. They have also offered the digi-class facility to over 2000 schools worldwide.

There are 24 managing schools associated with PES all over the country and with their tie-up with Pailan; they have initiated the same in eastern India as well.

Meena also mentioned that extraordinary infrastructure by Apurba Saha and a strong curriculum team will help PES deliver high quality education to the pupils.

She further informed that by the time students complete their Class XII, they will have BTEC qualifications and other certificates in fields such as tourism, art, etc that will help them choose their area of interest.

The teachers’ training programme started during the Puja vacations where the PES group has been working at helping teachers at Pailan become more skilled. “About 80 per cent teachers will be from Pailan and only 20 per cent of the teachers will be new recruits or from PES,” shared Saha.

Converging Concepts

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