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Stop Manufacturing Us! (aka SMU!)
is a student initiated online journal that pertains to the Indian education system. Here, besides getting to read interesting articles on the education system of India, you can publish and share your own views regarding it with other concerned citizens. Visit the page on Submission Guidelines to know more about how you can submit your views.

Our weekly polls can be found near the bottom of the page above the Interesting Links section.

There are more articles than what appear on this homepage. To browse through them, go through the archives at the right bottom corner of this page.

Enjoy your stay here and remember – Read, Rate, Comment, Contribute and Tell your friends!
Showing posts with label Announcements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Announcements. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Comment away!

Hello all,

This week, we have a special appeal to make to our readers.

A lot of work goes into producing an article right from the stage of writing it to the stage of editing it and bringing it up to the SMU! quality guidelines. And all we ask of you is to show some form of reception to the articles. How about a comment on the article telling us how you felt after reading it or how you thought it could’ve been better? We would like to know how well you receive our articles. So, don’t forget to comment on our articles from now on. We would greatly appreciate it!

This week’s article is about creativity in education! It is titled “Foster My Creativity!” and is pretty short. Check it out homies!

And this week’s poll question is:-

Friday, May 13, 2011

An Explanatory Note

Hey there,

This week’s article is titled “Our Pathetic Education System”. It’s written by a college student and it’s a quick read with intense implications. Check it out!

This week’s poll question is:-

Friday, May 06, 2011

A peek into life in an American University!

 

Hey there,

This week, we have a very entertaining story about how our author managed to escape an Indian college and made it through to an American University. It’s fun! Check it out!

This week’s poll question is:–

Friday, April 29, 2011

Official ‘SMU!’ sponsored articles!

 

Howdy folks!

This week’s article is the first official ‘SMU!’ sponsored article and it’s part of a series of articles titled “A Guide to Free Education Abroad”. This week’s article ‘American Undergraduate Studies” explores how you can get free education in the US studying in a 4 year undergraduate program. Hope you’re as excited about this series as we are!

Last week’s poll turned out to garner pretty decent response and here are the results:-

Friday, April 22, 2011

We NEED you!

Hi y’all,

We’re back for this week and boy is it exciting! This week’s article is “India Engineered”. Check it out!

The results for last week’s poll turned out to be exciting though not unexpected, with nearly 94% voters saying that the education system is in an absolute state of ruins and that we need a revolution. For those of you who’re confused by what the weeklypoll I’m talking about, scroll down to the end of this page to see the poll question of this week, which is:-

What does our education system need the most right now? (Scroll down to the end of the page to see the options and vote.)

And the biggest news of this week, a good news at that, is that we’re planning on expanding further and for that, we NEED you! We’re looking for competent writers who will help us execute the exciting and challenging projects in our pipeline. Check out our “Join Us!” page to know more. Join us to be a part of our exciting team and since we’re in the process of acquiring funds you’ll soon get the opportunity to earn for your future work! and what’s more? You can add your contribution to us in your résumé if you so wish! We’ll support you 100%!

 

Adios!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Weekly Polls!

Hey folks!

Enjoy this week’s article which is actually a European' student’s experience in a government school in India. Interesting read!

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve made some changes to our site since our launch.

We have introduced a new section called the ‘Interesting Links’ section at the bottom of the page where interesting links will be displayed. You can send in your own set of interesting links for this section by sharing it on our Facebook page.

Also, starting this week, we’ll be having weekly polls! This means every week we will have a question and any visitor to the website can participate in the poll and share their opinion quickly!

Here’s this week’s poll – “How bad is the Indian Education System?”

You can find the weekly polls at the bottom of the page. Also, we welcome you to suggest next week’s poll question along with four possible answer choices. The best one will be picked and be posted as next week’s poll. You can send in your suggestions through email or share it on our Facebook page. To reach our Facebook page, click on the links on the Facebook box on the right side of this page.

Our email ID is – smu@stopmanufacturingus.com

That’s all folks!

Friday, April 08, 2011

An Introduction

Hi,
 
Welcome to ‘Stop Manufacturing Us!’ (aka SMU!)!
 
We’re an online journal pertaining to issues regarding the Indian Education System (aka IES). Please visit our ‘About us’ page to know more about us and also visit the pages on "Our Missions", "Our Policies" and "Submission Guidelines".
 
We will be publishing new material every Friday at 4:00 PM. So, don’t forget to subscribe through email to get the regular updates regarding our posts and announcements!
 
As a general reader, you can contribute in many ways and become part of this enticing student phenomenon. It could be a simple rating of the posts, a comment, a referral to one of your friends who might be interested in this issue or a well thought out essay expressing your original ideas or solutions to the challenges that IES faces…regardless, we welcome you to contribute. Remember, in the world of internet, the keyboard is mightier than the pen (which is already established to be mightier than the sword)!
 
In case you don’t have any significant contributions yourself but know someone who has the capacity to contribute significantly, don’t hesitate to urge them to become part of this phenomenon. We’re sure they’ll enjoy having their voice heard.
 
We hope all this not only makes sense to you and makes you think but also touches your life in ways you didn’t imagine a journal could.
 
Feel free to explore our site and also like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. When you’re done reading the posts and our pages, please take the time to leave your comments about us on the ‘Guest Comments’ page. We encourage your support and suggestions!
 
Thank you for visiting!
SMU!

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