Friday, January 31, 2014

BWI: Mindteck Reports Profit for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2013

 
Source : Mindteck India limited
Friday, January 31, 2014 6:55PM IST (1:25PM GMT)
 
Mindteck Reports Profit for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2013
 
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Mindteck (India) Limited (BSE: MINDTECK), a global technology company, today reported its unaudited financial results for the nine-month period ended December 31, 2013. 
 
The company’s consolidated revenue for the period ended December 31, 2013 stood at Rs. 245.44 crore as against Rs. 193.38 crore for the same period last year, registering an increase of Rs.52.06 crore. This represents growth of 27% compared to the same period last year. Net profit stood at Rs.14.53 crore against Rs.1.02 crore for the corresponding period last year.
 
For the quarter ended December 31, 2013, the company’s consolidated revenue stood at Rs. 83.27 crore as against Rs. 64.05 crore for the corresponding quarter last year, registering a growth of 30%. Net profit for the quarter stood at Rs. 5.21 crore as against Rs. 1.58 crore for the corresponding quarter last year, registering a growth of 229%.
 
Overall growth was mainly attributable to:
 

  • Increased revenue in the US (23%), India (476%) and the rest of the world (35%)
     
  • Sustained focus on cost control 
     
Mr. Yusuf Lanewala, Chairman & Managing Director, commented, “We are pleased to have delivered yet another quarter of steady growth. This is encouraging both in terms of stability and client confidence. It also provides the impetus to further our expansion in the US beyond the recently opened Dallas, Texas location.”
 
About Mindteck (India) Limited
 
Mindteck, a global technology company established in 1991, provides Product Engineering services to medical device companies, the energy industry and equipment OEMs, and Information Technology services to government entities, analytical/scientific instrument manufacturers, top-tier semiconductor companies and financial services companies in the Global 2000. Its depth of knowledge and niche expertise in embedded systems and enterprise applications is complemented by dedicated Centers of Excellence in wireless design and storage testing. Presently, Mindteck employs over 1,000 individuals throughout offices in the US and UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain and India. It also has four development centers (US, Singapore and India [Kolkata, Bangalore]). The company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE 517344). www.mindteck.com
 

 
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BWI: WNS to Present at Investor Conferences

 
Source : WNS
Friday, January 31, 2014 6:30PM IST (1:00PM GMT)
 
WNS to Present at Investor Conferences
 
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and New York, United States

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Management services, today announced that the Company will participate at the following upcoming investor conferences:
 
Goldman Sachs 2014 Technology & Internet Conference

                Date:  Tuesday, February 11, 2014
                Presentation:  2:40 PM (Pacific)
                Location:  San Francisco, CA
                Presenter:  David Mackey, Corp. SVP – Finance & Head of Investor Relations
                Live webcast available on WNS’s website at http://ir.wns.com
 
Robert W. Baird & Co. 2014 Business Solutions Conference

                Date:  Wednesday, February 26, 2014
                Presentation:  10:20 AM (Eastern)
                Location:  New York, NY
                Presenter:  David Mackey, Corp. SVP – Finance & Head of Investor Relations
                Live webcast available on WNS’s website at http://ir.wns.com
 
 Morgan Stanley India Corporate Access Day

                Date:  Tuesday, March 11, 2014
                Location:  New York, NY
                Attending:  David Mackey, Corp. SVP – Finance & Head of Investor Relations
 
About WNS

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process management company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process management services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. As of December 31, 2013, WNS had 26,578 professionals across 33 delivery centers worldwide including China, Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, visit www.wns.com.
 
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BWI: Akamai Releases Third Quarter 2013 ‘State of the Internet’ Report

 
Source : Akamai
Friday, January 31, 2014 4:20PM IST (10:50AM GMT)
 
NASDAQ:AKAM(NASDAQ:AKAM)
Akamai Releases Third Quarter 2013 'State of the Internet' Report
 
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

- Observed attack traffic originating from Indonesia drops; China returns to top of list

- Global average and average peak connection speeds up 29 and 13 percent, respectively, year-over-year

- More than 760 million unique IPv4 addresses connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform

 
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, today released its Third Quarter, 2013 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as network connectivity and connection speeds, attack traffic, and broadband adoption and availability, among many others.
 
The Third Quarter, 2013 State of the Internet Report includes insights into the likelihood of repeat DDoS attacks against an individual target, the continued attack activity by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army, as well as observations on Akamai traffic activity related to Internet disruptions in Syria, Myanmar and Sudan. The report also reviews mobile browser usage by network type based on data from Akamai IO.
 
Highlights from Akamai’s Third Quarter, 2013 State of the Internet Report:


 

Global Average and Average Peak Connection Speeds
 
The global average connection speed continued its upward trend in the third quarter of 2013, climbing 10% over the previous quarter to 3.6 Mbps. A total of 122 countries/regions that qualified for inclusion saw average connection speeds increase during the third quarter, with growth ranging from 0.5 percent in Namibia (to 1.1 Mbps) to a 76 percent increase in Nepal (to 3.6 Mbps).
 
Average connection speeds saw a 29 percent year-over-year increase, with all of the top 10 countries/regions climbing 27 percent or more.  Globally, 133 qualifying countries/regions saw year-over-year increases in average connection speeds, from 0.2 percent in Egypt (to 1.2 Mbps) to 259 percent in Réunion (to 6.8 Mbps).
 
Global average peak connection speeds showed a slight decline in the third quarter of 2013, dropping 5.2 percent to 17.9 Mbps. Seven of the top 10 countries/regions saw increases in average peak connection speeds during the quarter, ranging from 0.5 percent in Hong Kong (to 65.4 Mbps) to 19 percent in South Korea (to 63.6 Mbps). Meanwhile, Romania, Latvia and Belgium saw declines of 4.4, 3.3 and 3.6 percent to 45.4, 43.1 and 38.5 Mbps, respectively.
 
Year over year, the global average peak connection speed grew 13 percent over the third quarter of 2012. Yearly increases among the top 10 countries/regions ranged from 15 percent in Latvia to 63 percent in Singapore. Worldwide, 115 qualifying countries/regions showed yearly growth in average connection speeds, with increases ranging from 0.3 percent in South Africa (to 11.9 Mbps) to 111 percent in Palestine (to 19.9 Mbps).
 
Global high broadband (>10 Mbps) adoption rose 31 percent quarter-over-quarter to reach 19 percent. Global broadband (>4 Mbps) adoption improved 5.8 percent over the quarter to reach 53 percent.
 
“In the third quarter of 2013, we observed that long-term growth in average and average peak connection speeds remained strong, as did growth in global broadband and high broadband adoption rates. We believe these trends point to continued improvement in the quality and performance of Internet connectivity in countries around the world,” said David Belson, the report’s editor.
 
Attack Traffic and Security
 
Akamai maintains a distributed set of unadvertised agents deployed across the Internet that log connection attempts, which the company classifies as attack traffic. Based on the data collected by these agents, Akamai is able to identify the top countries from which attack traffic originates, as well as the top ports targeted by these attacks. It is important to note, however, that the originating country as identified by the source IP address may not represent the nation in which an attacker resides. For example, an individual in the United States may be launching attacks from compromised systems anywhere in the world.
 
Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 185 unique countries/regions during the third quarter of 2013, up 10 over the previous quarter. China, which originated 35 percent of observed attacks, returned to the top spot this quarter after having been unseated by Indonesia in the second quarter. Indonesia, meanwhile, dropped back to second place after originating 20 percent of observed attacks – slightly more than half of the volume seen in the second quarter. The United States remained in third place as it originated 11 percent of observed attacks during the third quarter, up from 6.9 percent in the previous quarter.
 
Overall, the concentration of attacks declined during the third quarter of 2013, with the top 10 countries originating 83 percent of observed attacks, compared to 89 percent in the second quarter. China and Indonesia, however, continued to originate more than half of all observed attack traffic.
 
After dropping to third place in the second quarter, Port 445 (Microsoft-DS) returned to its spot as the most targeted port in the third quarter, drawing 23 percent of observed attacks. Port 80 (WWW [HTTP]) and Port 443 (SSL [HTTPS]) dropped to second and third place at 14 and 13 percent, respectively. Port 445 was the most targeted port in eight of the top 10 countries/regions, the only exceptions being China and Indonesia. Port 1433 (Microsoft SQL Server) was the top target for China, and Port 443 was the most targeted from Indonesia.
 
In addition to observations on attack traffic, the State of the Internet Report includes insight into distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks based on reports from Akamai customers. For the first time since the fourth quarter of 2012, when Akamai began reporting on DDoS attacks, fewer attacks were reported than the previous quarter, with 281 observed in the third quarter of 2013 compared to 318 during the second quarter (down 11 percent). Overall, Akamai saw more attacks through the third quarter of 2013 (807) than it did in all of 2012 (768).
 
The Enterprise sector continued to be the leading target of DDoS attacks with 127 reported in the third quarter; Commerce was next with 80, followed by Media & Entertainment (42), Public Sector (18) and High Tech (14).
 
Akamai has also started to examine the likelihood that attack targets may be subject to follow-up attacks. Out of the 281 third-quarter attacks, 169 were focused on unique targets. During the quarter, 27 customers were attacked for a second time; five reported three attacks; and seven companies were attacked more than three times. Initial analysis of the data indicates that if a company is the target of a DDoS attack, there is a 25 percent chance that it could be attacked again within three months.
 
“Although the number of DDoS attacks reported by Akamai customers in the third quarter declined from the previous quarter, we believe that 2013 will ultimately be a significantly more active year for DDoS attacks than 2012,” Belson said. “As of the end of the third quarter, customers had already reported more DDoS attacks than they did in all of 2012.”
 
Global Internet Penetration
 
More than 760 million unique IPv4 addresses from 239 unique countries/regions connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform during the third quarter of 2013, a 1.1 percent increase over the second quarter and an 11 percent increase year over year. Since a single IP address can represent multiple individuals in some cases – such as when users access the Web through a firewall or proxy server – Akamai estimates the total number of unique Web users connecting to its platform during the quarter to be well over one billion.
 
The number of unique IPv4 address seen by the Akamai Intelligent Platform worldwide rose by more than eight million over the quarter, with growth observed in six of the top 10 countries. Year over year, the number of global unique IPv4 addresses connecting to Akamai grew by more than 123 million, with nine of the top 10 countries/regions showing growth.
 
IPv6 Adoption
 
For the first time, the State of the Internet Report includes data leveraged directly from the Akamai Intelligent platform to provide insights into IPv6 adoption across numerous vectors. European countries have taken a clear lead in IPv6 adoption, with seven of the top 10 countries. Conversely, only one country in Asia Pacific (Japan) is among the top 10.
 
Over the course of the third quarter of 2013, IPv6 traffic levels on the Akamai Intelligent Platform grew from just over 176,000 hits/second to more than 277,000 hits/second. IPv6 traffic continued to exhibit a cyclical weekly pattern, with volumes dipping each Saturday, likely indicating a greater level of IPv6 adoption across corporate/enterprise networks than consumer ISPs. 
 
Akamai expects to include this information, as well as insight into IPv6 adoption trends over time, within the State of the Internet Report going forward.
 
Mobile Connectivity
 
Average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network operators during the third quarter of 2013 ranged from a high of 9.5 Mbps to a low of 0.6 Mbps, while average peak connection speeds ranged from 49.8 Mbps to 2.4 Mbps. Eighteen operators showed average connection speeds in the broadband (>4 Mbps) range. According to data collected by Ericsson, the volume of mobile traffic increased by approximately10 percent during the third quarter and grew by 80 percent year over year.
 
Analysis of Akamai IO data collected during the third quarter shows that Android Webkit-based browsers accounted for nearly 38 percent of all requests and Apple Mobile Safari slightly less than 24 percent. When accounting for mobile device usage across all networks (not just cellular), Apple Mobile Safari comprised just over 47 percent of requests and Android Webkit made up 33 percent of requests.
 
To complement the report, Akamai’s State of the Internet app was introduced today; a new app that brings the State of the Internet to users’ iPhones and iPads. The app provides easy access to interactive State of the Internet data such as unique IP addresses, attack volume, connection speeds and broadband adoption, along with current and past quarterly reports as well as related news. Akamai’s State of the Internet app is available now in the Apple App Store.
 
About the Akamai State of the Internet Report
 
Each quarter, Akamai publishes a “State of the Internet” report. This report includes data gathered from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics concerning the Internet and its usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. To learn more and to access the archive of past reports, please visit www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet. To download the figures from the Third Quarter, 2013 State of the Internet Report, please visit: http://wwwns.akamai.com/soti/soti_q313_figures.zip
 
About Akamai
 
Akamai® is the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications. At the core of the Company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with first class reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
 

 
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BWI: Canvera Hires Susmita Bhattacharjee as CFO

 
Source : Canvera Digital Technologies Private Limited
Friday, January 31, 2014 3:53PM IST (10:23AM GMT)
 
Canvera Hires Susmita Bhattacharjee as CFO
 
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

India’s #1 online photography service Canvera today announced the hiring of Susmita Bhattacharjee as the company’s CFO. Susmita comes to Canvera with 25+ years of experience in finance which has included stints at Accenture, CSR India Pvt Ltd and OnMobile. “Canvera is now more than 1100 people in 200+ cities with 600 people hired just in the last 1.5 years and we needed someone of Susmita’s caliber and experience to head the finance function for us,” says Dhiraj Kacker, CEO & Co-Founder of Canvera. “Susmita has worked at a number of companies that were going through rapid growth and transition and that experience was a key factor in her hiring.” Talking about joining Canvera Susmita said, “I am very excited by Canveras vision and what they have achieved in a fairly short time and I am looking forward to participating in the next phase of the companys journey.” Susmita will be based out of the company’s headquarters in Bangalore.
 
About Canvera
 
Canvera is an online photography company primarily focused on the needs of professional photographers in India through a platform that tightly integrates lead generation, web hosting, e-commerce, online collaboration, print and design services. Canvera’s suite of products and services provide professionals with a one-stop-shop to run their business allowing them to focus on their creativity. Canvera was founded by Dr. Dhiraj Kacker & Peeyush Rai in 2007. In this time, the company has serviced the needs of more than 20,000 photographers spread across 400+ cities in India. Canvera has raised Rs. 75 CR in funding from Info Edge, Footprint Ventures, DFJ and Mumbai Angels. Canvera’s founders were recently recognized as amongst the Top-10 Most Influential People in Photography in India by Asian Photography magazine.

 
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BWI: CA Network Flow Analysis Leverages Cisco’s Next-Generation Technology to Deliver Deep Insight into Application Performance

 
Source : CA Technologies
Friday, January 31, 2014 3:40PM IST (10:10AM GMT)
 
NASDAQ:CA(NASDAQ:CA)
CA Network Flow Analysis Leverages Cisco's Next-Generation Technology to Deliver Deep Insight into Application Performance
Self-Learning Analytics Enable IT to Spot Anomalies, Improve Service Levels and Reduce Costs
 
New Delhi, Delhi, India


CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced a new version of CA Network Flow Analysis  that leverages Cisco’s next-generation technology to provide IT organizations with application-centric insights to better spot anomalies, improve service levels and reduce operational costs.

 CA Network Flow Analysis automatically recognizes more than 1,000 applications—quickly giving network managers deep visibility into application traffic patterns and behavior.  The solution also makes it easy for network managers to create profiles for their organization’s custom applications.

This insight empowers IT to pinpoint active or potential issues with service delivery, plan and validate resource needs for new applications, optimize utilization of network resources, and avoid unnecessary infrastructure costs. 

CA Network Flow Analysis complements these capabilities with patented anomaly detection that learns about the network over time and automatically detects and creates alarms for a wide range of anomalies that can impact performance and create security risks.  This empowers IT to proactively safeguard critical service levels while reducing the cost and headaches associated with network troubleshooting.

“Enterprise IT organizations that don’t aggressively evolve their ability to manage their networks from an application-centric perspective will inevitably wind up throwing too many staff-hours at service-level assurance and getting too little in return,” said John Smith, general manager, infrastructure management, CA Technologies.  “With CA Network Flow Analysis, customers achieve far superior results with less work—significantly enhancing IT’s overall ability to deliver more value to the business.”

T-Systems, a global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Germany, uses CA Network Flow Analysis to provide application-centric monitoring as a cloud service for its customers. T-Systems ICT-Monitor extracts data without additional hardware in the customer environment and provides application response time for applications like SharePoint and others.


“Application-centric network monitoring has historically required us to associate applications with known ports, but that approach is becoming untenable as more applications use HTTP and dynamic ports,” said Christian Remer LeiterProduct Management APM at T-Systems.  “By giving us the insight we need without depending on known ports, CA Network Flow Analysis is enabling us to stop finger-pointing and quickly resolve network-related performance issues as they arise.” 

CA Network Flow Analysis leverages Cisco AVC (Application Visibility and Control) and NBAR2 (Next Generation Network-Based Application Recognition) technologies to simplify and integrate the detection and analysis of application-specific traffic.  It also harvests data directly from network devices—making it more cost-effective to deploy, maintain and upgrade.

"Network performance management no longer means simply reporting top talkers and top traffic loads by port and protocol," said Jim Frey, vice president of research, Enterprise Management Associates. "Network managers must now be able to relate ports and protocols to specific applications, understand response times for those applications, and apply analytics to reveal potential issues on a proactive basis.  The latest release of CA's Network Flow Analysis makes progress on all of these fronts."

CA Network Flow Analysis embraces CA Technologies application-driven network performance management model for managing IT infrastructure, applications and services.

CA Technologies is demonstrating CA Network Flow Analysis this week at Cisco Live 2014 Milan.  

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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BWI: ISM-India Signs Agreement with ITC Geneva to Professionalize SCM

 
Source : ISM-India
Friday, January 31, 2014 2:22PM IST (8:52AM GMT)
 
ISM-India Signs Agreement with ITC Geneva to Professionalize SCM
 
Gurgaon, Haryana, India

ISM-INDIA was launched in 2011 as an affiliate of ISM USA. Over the last 2 years it has set up 11 Chapters covering all major cities to professionalize Procurement & Supply Management activities. It provides training, certification and consultancy in this field and operates as a non-profit organization. It works closely with ISM USA and its affiliates in Asia i.e. ISM-Japan, ISM-China, ISM-Korea etc. It is famous for its well known global certification i.e. CPSM (certified Professional in Supply Management) and training in the field of Strategic Procurement and Category Management. Recently ISM-INDIA was given Dewang Mehta Business School Award for Education Leadership.

To provide more choices for certification & education in the field of Procurement & Supply Management, ISM-INDIA has recently entered into an agreement with ITC, Geneva (A Joint Agency of UN and WTO). ITC is well known worldwide for conducting International Professional Certificate/ Advanced Certificate/ Diploma examination in Supply Chain Management under its Modular Learning System (MLS-SCM). This program was initiated by ITC to promote competitiveness of business organizations/ enterprises through improved procurement and supply chain management knowledge and skills. The training pack has 18 modules and was developed by internationally reputed consultants and is offered in 69 countries.

The above program developed by ITC Geneva is well suited for present and future managers, executives and specialists in Procurement, Supply, Inventory, Transportation, Logistics of business organizations, covering Large Corporations to SMEs, NGOs, Government Corporations etc. MLS-SCM program developed by ITC Geneva has very user-friendly modules covering all aspects of the supply chain and are aimed at helping individuals and enterprises to develop new approaches in supply chain management and to excel in facing challenges of globalization.

For more information and services offered by ISM-INDIA, please visit www.ism-india.org. ISM Membership to students and educators is free.

 
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BWI: UAE Exchange Takes Part in the Financial Inclusion Summit

 
Source : UAE Exchange - India
Friday, January 31, 2014 11:06AM IST (5:36AM GMT)
 
UAE Exchange Takes Part in the Financial Inclusion Summit
 
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Economic Times has flagged off India’s largest “Financial Inclusion Summit” on January 30, 2014 initiating the most enlightening discussions focusing on the theme 'Banking the Unbanked - Vision 2020”. It has been an immense learning, networking and benchmarking experience for all the key stake holders from the Industry. More than 120 senior decision makers from NBFC's, Banks, Micro Finance Companies, SME’s & Regulatory Bodies took part in the conference held in Mumbai.

UAE Exchange Chairman Dr. B R Shetty shared his views on the 'Govt Initiatives: Effectiveness in Setting the Intentions Right.' Ever since inception, UAE Exchange was successful in bringing financial services to the rural population by opening many branches in remote villages of the country.

V George Antony, MD & Country Head of UAE Exchange, who were also present at the function said “UAE Exchange is one of the contenders for the Banking Licence. If we get the licence, we will go aggressively ahead with our plans that are well aligned with the financial inclusion plans of this country. Already we have come a long way in providing financial products to the people in unbanked areas. At present UAE Exchange does almost all functions of a bank, except accepting deposits.”
                    
UAE Exchange, India with its 331 branches and over 40000 sub-agent locations, provides matchless financial and travel services to its customers. Since starting operations in India in 1999, UAE Exchange has been constantly growing by garnering the trust of customers. The financial powerhouse has gathered a wide range of services under one roof, which addresses most of the financial requirements of its customers including Foreign Exchange, Travel & Tours (Domestic & International), Money Transfer (Xpress Money & Money Gram), Gold Loan, Two wheeler Loan, Personal Loan, Consumer Loan, Housing Loan, and MSME Loan, Domestic Money Transfer, Insurance, Share Trading and other investment advisory services.

The organization flaunts a stack of laurels for quality service, leadership, Internal Magazine, Human Resource Development and CSR. 

Website - www.uaeexchangetravel.com

 
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

BWI: British Council convenes Panel Discussion on Quality Standards in English Language Education

 
Source : British Council
Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:00PM IST (2:30PM GMT)
 
British Council convenes Panel Discussion on Quality Standards in English Language Education
 
New Delhi, Delhi, India

The British Council has done extensive work in helping to raise the standards of English language education across the world.  Wherever we work we aim to help raise standards in the quality of the teaching and learning of English.
 
Our work ranges from teaching, teacher training and development, to corporate and government consultancy, examinations and assessment. We have our own Teaching Quality Standards for our Teaching Centres and we run  ‘AccreditationUK’, an accreditation scheme for institutions offering English language programmes of study in the UK.
 
Through our new collaborative initiative, the English Language Quality Standards Programme, we aim to advance the debate about quality standards in English language education in India, in particular working in partnership with private sector schools, higher education institutes and vocational training providers.
 
To take a step in this direction, the British Council convened key stakeholders to a Panel Discussion held on 30 Jan. The theme of the panel discussion was ‘Quality Standards in English Language Education’.
 
The panel was a varied mix of stakeholders, chaired by John Knagg, Senior Advisor Learning and Teaching, British Council, UK.
 
Ashok Pandey, Principal of the well-known Ahlcon International School spoke about the attributes that a quality provider of English Language education have. Keith Morrow, Senior Inspector AccreditationUK discussed how these attributes can be measured.
 
Sadhana Parashar, Director CBSE discussed the importance of quality assurance in private versus public sector institutions.  Technological developments have enhanced quality delivery in education, and this was brought to fore by Isabel Sutcliffe, International Standards and Quality Director, Pearson Education (India). William Bickerdike, Regional Manager, Cambridge International Examinations pointed out the role of examinations in providing quality.
 
Chris Brandwood, Director English South Asia, British Council spoke of the British Council’s commitment towards working with Indian and global stakeholders in raising standards in English language education in India. He said, “It is a privilege to host this event at the British Council today, and to welcome Indian and UK partners to join a debate which is so relevant to the global demand for quality English language learning and teaching. There are no simple answers and the challenges faced in the English language field, whether in Europe or Asia are something of key importance for practitioners and policy makers alike”
 
The event was attended by Principals and administrators of leading schools and universities, Education providers, Indian and UK government officials and representatives from various quality assurance and accreditation bodies in India.
 
Note for editors
The British Council has been teaching English for 80 years. We reach 100 million people in over 100 countries and support teachers and learners with comprehensive and innovative learning resources. As the world’s English experts we work with governments, institutions, teachers and learners to provide English language learning and teaching solutions that create life-changing opportunities for individuals and their future prosperity.
 
In India we offer a full range of our English Language  services by:
 

  • working with policy makers and partners in teacher development projects
  • commissioning and promoting research and publications
  • organising workshops, seminars, debates and conferences
  • using a collaborative approach to Quality Assurance systems
  • carrying out consultancy and training for corporate clients
  • delivering services to learners through our teaching centres
  • delivering services to learners through digital and self-access resources
  • delivering examinations and working with partners on assessment
 

 
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