In light of queries from many of my students in India and NZ I wrote this email to their community group on Orkut. I must sya I am surprised how they have exploded/stormed out of the small town and are working studying all across India. A 2002 graduate from Jaipur School is already a Greencard (permanent resident) of New Zealand-based on his studies (in hospitality/hotel sector) and work there. Many are about to come to US to work in software -incl girls-while working in Bangalore, Pune etc. One got campus placement at Infosys -from Jaipur based private engg college - I had prepared for my GRE exam while at his uncle's tutroing agency-which he had then desired to join after graduation.
A 2005 graduate girl from small town in Haryana state had joined the school in grade 11 -now she is enrolled in a 4 year accelerated bachelor's program in Gurgaon near Delhi --the last year she would be spending in US. She aims to work and pay for her MBA from a "top MBA school." So I wrote this yesterday to members of this community mentioning a reading I had read during my first week at Harvard -for the course by program director for our program -Porf Reimers ( www.gse.harvard.edu/iep ) about how globalization affects us and what students should do. Though the reading is meant for policy makers -it should be a compulsory readingfor all college students who aspire for global careers. I am currentlybased at my Harvard classmate's house in Canada aspiring to work in US -so globalization is in the face all the time. Any comments on globalizatioon etc? Umesh PS: For the first time ever I held a human child younger than one year old in my hands -- not quite different fromholding any other mammal - though more care needed/. --- Umesh Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Umesh Sharma > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jaipur School <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Global careers and citizens > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:40:50 -0700 > > Hi, > > Many have asked if I plan to return to India or I > have forgotten India. I think it calls for a change > in outlook of many people. Going out of the country > is not different from leaving one's parents' home > -to go to school -in kindergarten. Only that you > take longer to return home-to go out again (the next > day -in case of a school going kid). > My views are as follows: > > About coming back - the strategy should be that > once one gets dual citizenship -of India-US or > India-Canada or India-NZ or India-UK or > India-Australia etc --then one becomes a global > citizen. It takes about ten years for that. So for > ten years one has to slug out --and then you can > stay in India or stay in US -doesn't matter. I left > Jaipur in 1990 for studies with no plans to return > but did return in 1993 after graduation. Left again > in 1994 again with no plans to return. After MBA > came back in 1996 but left again in 1997 -for Bhopal > with no plans to return but I did again in 1999. Now > I have left in 2004 --maybe I would return again > someday. One should not be stuck with one place -so > I believe. > > Globalization should not pass JS grads by> Pl see > Prof Martin Carnoy's book on Globalization and Edu > Reform -published by UNESCO. Prof Carnoy is Director > of International Edu program at Stanford. > www.unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001202/120274e.pdf > > or > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=martin+carnoy+globalization+unesco&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 > > Best Wishes. Umesh > > > This message was sent to you by Umesh Sharma. To see > Umesh's profile click: > http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=14312205275574945249 > > * * * > > To control notification emails, access your Account > Settings: > http://www.orkut.com/Settings.aspx > > If you are not an orkut user, you can block all > orkut users from sending you email by visiting: > http://www.orkut.com/Block.aspx > > Umesh Sharma 5121 Lackawanna ST College Park, MD 20740 USA Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone] Canada # (607) 221-9433 Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - with free PC-PC calling and photo sharing. http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
