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MAHINDRA ACADEMY

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility activities, the Mahindra Group has established schools near its factories primarily for children of its employees. At present, the Group has three schools that impart high standards of education - Mahindra Academy at  Malad in Mumbai, Mahindra Academy in Zaheerabad and a schoolin Khopoli.The Mahindra Academy formerly known as Students' Academy was established in June 1970. The School is managed by a Governing Council consisting of members of the Mahindra Education Society. The School was primarily for the children of M/s. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. employees. However now other eligible students are also admitted. Today, the School has a spacious three storeyed building surrounded by beautiful garden where over 1200 students both boys and girls come for learning. We prepare students for the SSC examination conducted by the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary Education. Teachers at these schools are qualified and undergo regular training as well as attend relevant workshops. Their teaching methodologies are constantly evaluated and modified when necessary.

Teaching Methodology: The teachers at Mahindra Academy have to undergo advanced training and attend various workshops from time to time in order to improve their teaching skill and technique. These teaching programmes contribute to the growth and development of teachers which enhances classroom teaching.

Value Based Education: The importance and urgency of value based education has become an integral part of formal education because of the increasing conflicts in human life. The very existence of traditional institutions such as family, religion, state and society are being questioned. Their very foundations are shaking. Globalization has affected our culture, our faith and the very essence of human relations. The young generation is turning a blind eye to our age old values and traditions. So we feel that it is necessary to introduce such values directly or indirectly along with the teaching of different subjects.

The kind of discipline that academy wish to instill among the young boys and girls of this School is based on the latest knowledge of the behavioural sciences according to which ‘Discipline must come through liberty'. If discipline is founded on liberty the discipline itself must necessarily be active. Academy do not consider a student disciplined only when he/she has been rendered artificially silent, as mute and as immovable as a paralytic, such a student is an individual annihilated and not disciplined .