NIMA celebrated teacher’s day on 5th September, 2011

North-India Management Association (NIMA) in association with the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) celebrated teachers’ day at the PSEB auditorium on 5th September 2011. Punjab Education Minister, Sewa Singh Sekhwan was the chief guest.

The event was organised by NIMA to apprise teachers of the growing changes in teaching methods and how they needed to improve their skills with the changing times. Gulshan Sharma, president of NIMA, and a visiting faculty in various Indian and foreign universities addressed the audience, comprising mainly of teachers and people associated with the education field.

Dr. Sharma said, “The real purpose of education is to provide good employment so that students can contribute to society. Marks are not the only thing that one needs to care about”. He gave a detailed presentation on the problems faced by students and teachers that needed to be addressed.

S.Sewa Singh Sekhwan, Education Punjab while speaking thanked NIMA for organizing this event teacher’s day. He stressed the need to improve our educational set up so that youth especially from Punjab who look towards foreign shores for employment can be provided jobs here. He urged the teachers to invite corporates for academia industry interactions and to design the course curriculum so that in the future the same corporates can be approached to provide jobs.

Large number of principals and teachers of district Mohali and Ropar attended the event.. The theme of the function was ‘Life Management Skills and Employability for Punjab Youth’. NIMA offered to provide free of cost life management skills and counseling.