PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, June 21: Tata Education Excellence Programme (TEEP) organised an Orientation Workshop on Entrepreneurship for school principals and teachers of Jamshedpur at Shavak Nanavati Technical Institute (SNTI).
With increasing population and unemployment, entrepreneurship is the need of the hour where individuals are empowered to problem-solving, innovate and generate their own income through their individual efforts.
A total of 31 participants from 26 schools attended the session. Two schools from Ghatshila were also part of this programme.
The faculty, professor Sunil Kumar Sarangi, Program Director of Basic Leadership Skills (BLS), the flagship Management Development Program and faculty for Communication and Leadership of XLRI guided the participants on the basics of Entrepreneurship and what it entails.
On this occasion, chief TQM and CQA, Tata Steel, Pankaj Kumar welcomed the faculty and appreciated that one need not go far to look for valuable and competent resources to guide and mentor on various concepts like entrepreneurship which have now become the need of the hour. He also addressed the participants, saying that Entrepreneurship would go a long way to promote problem-solving, innovation and employability in society and the best places to begin with ideation are in schools.
Started in 2003, the Tata Education Excellence Program (TEEP) enables schools to improve the quality of Education through a calibrated approach.
This program is run in private, government, semi-government, urban, semi-urban and rural schools. The schools voluntarily participate in this program which consists of a year-long engagement and then these participating schools are assessed on education excellence maturity.
The framework of the program is adapted from renowned Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence criteria. Currently, this program is being run for schools in and around Jamshedpur.