Calcutta Business School
Calcutta Business School, a part of Shikshayatan Foundation, has been reaching out to students through a series of webinars, virtual conferences and corporate talks, and acting as an interface to connect them to the corporate sector.
The series of webinars and around 20 virtual conferences were organised with two main objectives to give a sense of direction to the students during the pandemic and to build a bridge between academia and industry and create a clear visible roadmap for students to follow, who would be joining as a young workforce shortly.
The industry connect programmes saw stalwarts and corporate heavyweights such as Exide Industries deputy MD Subir Chakraborty, Sudip Datta, PwC senior partner and Pepsico director D.N. Sarkar encouraging students to be objective and advising them how to shine in their careers.
On a deserted school campus, the clatter of the keyboards and the ringing of phones is constant in one room.
Welcome to the accounts office, the most busy place in the school in the last few months.
The mailbox is full, the phone calls are incessant and the personnel in the school accounts office are buried in calculations.
One template that could be followed for all students is no longer effective and the accounts offices across schools are doing calculations specific to individual requests.
Questions from parents range from how much they have to pay if they opt for waiver in the last two quarters, or how much they need to pay if they want the fees adjusted for the previous months where they have paid 100 per cent, or how much they have to pay if they opt for instalments.