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Six Sigma as a Management System

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Six sigma is a data driven approach and a methodology to eliminate defects from a process it may be a manufacturing process or a service process. Six sigma was introduced by Bill Smith and Mikel J Harry while working at Motorola in 1986. Jack Welsh launches it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. Six sigma identify and remove the causes of defects and minimize variability in manufacturing and business processes and thus improve the quality of the process. Several scholars / writers define six sigma in different ways. It can be defined as a Problem solving methodology, as a metric, as a philosophy and as a management system. Six sigma as a Problem solving methodology: Six sigma as a problem solving methodology established in organization to improve the critical parameters or process of the organization and the departments of the organization. All the important performance indicator of the organization needs to produce the flawless results for the
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3 Tips for Keeping your students lively during classes

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The image of the bored, half-asleep, daydreaming teen sitting in a high school classroom is all too familiar for teachers. Most teenagers seem to treat school days like a prison sentence. A recent poll found that the top two words teenagers most associate with school are “bored” and “tired,” and this probably isn’t all that surprising. With schedules that are often packed with difficult classes, homework, and extracurriculum activities, teenagers likely find sitting in a desk for hours a day to be pretty low on the excitement scale. Here are some tips on how to liven up your class: Make Relevant Connections One of the best ways to get teenagers interested is by talking about the things they know and care about, whether that’s pop culture, music, or television shows. For example, creating an English lesson around crafting tweets from the characters in the class novel could be a fun, new way to approach looking at the text. Making references to pop culture within the less
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The need and importance of Distance Education in India

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India, after independence, has made a great advancement in its education system. Initially, education was accessible only to the high profile class of India, and a lot of poor and middle class Indians remained unlettered. There was an immense pressure on various state governments by common men to initiate more institutes, colleges and universities. This pressure has led to rapid growth of higher education in our country. But sad thing is that this progression is more quantitative than qualitative, all because of the high demand. Distance education was embraced by many good universities to meet the ever increasing expectations of those students who had deficient means to pursue higher education through regular manner. And hence, distance education in India has become very popular today. There were a lot of limitations in the formal system of education, which a lot of students are not able to undertake. And hence they are getting attracted towards distance learning mode of ed
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With Weakening Rupees to the Dollar, will you Still Go Abroad?

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Dollar has seen a massive upsurge, and the continuous devaluation of rupee due to the sudden strengthening of the US economy has in a way reflected the grave inefficiency of the Indian Economy. History has shown that Indian Economy has been open to only get affected by the turmoil abroad but we have not benefitted from the developments that are happening in the global economy. Rupee fell when the US economy was falling in 2008 and rupee is falling today as well when the US economy is strengthening. But, government will surely take some steps to curtail the market speculations which are forcing the foreign investors to withdraw their money from the Indian market. Rising dollar is apparently making everything foreign highly expensive and education is no exception in this case. While the students who are already studying abroad will have to bear the burns of the falling rupee, a large number of those who were planning to go abroad will have to re-consider the idea, given a s
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How to Teach Reading Comprehension to Kids

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Educators and parents are obsessed with reading; and the emphasis has only grown in recent decades as reading became a defining indicator of academic success on standardized tests. Yet despite the obsession with teaching reading in the early grades, many educators don’t fully understand how the brain reads, writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Willingham has long studied the best ways to teach reading and has noticed that factual knowledge often gets left out of the reading comprehension equation. Well-intentioned teacher’s help kids learn to decode words, but can’t understand why so many have trouble comprehending what they read. Willingham contends that lack of knowledge about the subject of the reading is a big culprit. Kids are generally tested on reading comprehension as a separate skill, divorced from any subject they’ve learned about, and that favors kids who come to school with more prior knowledge – often wealthier ki
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