EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT and ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Educational Quality, Teacher Education, Research in Education

Expert advice and consultancy available with a many-sided long-experienced personality of repute in the field of General and Technical Education. Problems concerned with the teaching and learning of students and teachers and educational quality at all levels from pre-school to post-doctoral can be solved by means of discussion,workshops, projects and research. Workshops and materials development for any of the areas listed above can be offered.
E-mail to swaminathan3@vsnl.com

Other Places to go:shresda@hotmail.com

Dr.S.Swaminatha Pillai

Dr.S.Swaminatha Pillai is a triple Ph.D. in English Literature, Linguistics and Education and has an experience of over 52 years in all - as primary school teacher, high school teacher, training school teacher, inspector of schools, educational survey officer, assistant professor of English in Tamilnadu Government Arts and Professional colleges, Lecturer in Communication, Assistant Professor of Educational Communication, Professor and Head of the Department of Educational Research in the Government of India's autonomous institution of Technical Teachers Training Institute, Southern Region at Chennai - and became the Director of the School of Distance Education of Bharathiar University by invitation and set the school right.

He has published 150 papers in national and international journals from 1966, seven printed books and over a dozen mimeoed books,twelve contributions to books edited by others, several course designs and materials and research reports.

Produced Ph.D.s in three subjects of English, Education and Engineering Education as an approved doctoral supervisor and guide of Brunel(the University of West London), Madras,Anna, Madurai, and Bharathiar Universities.He was also appointed as honorary Associate Reseach Fellow in Brunel, the University of West London.

He continues to publish papers and books and offers programmes in his favourite areas of Education, Management, Quality concerns( ISO 9000/14000 series), comparative literature and English Language Teaching. He has presented papers and participated and chaired sessions in national and international conferences in Comparative Literature, English, Education, Engineering Education and Distance Education from 1970 onwards.His latest research paper entitled COGNITIVE STRUCTURE OF TECHNOLOGY SUBJECTS FOR DECIDING INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND LEARNING PREFERENCES has appeared in the book TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT: Proceedings of the WOCATE Conference 1994 of Springer, Berlin, Germany. His forthcoming book on Educational Quality Management(EQM) both in English and in Tamil directly will be a pioneering work. The next original work on Educational Cost Management (ECM) is in the pipeline.

He has been a subject expert on the selection committees of Anna, Annamalai, Bharathiar, Bharathidasan, Mother Teresa Women's and Manonmaniam Sundaranar Universities and Government of India expert for technical institutions for selecting directors,professors, readers and lecturers in English, Education and Distance Education. He is on the expert panels of the University Grants Commission, the National Council for Teacher Education,and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and also in Government of India's Who's Who in Technical education, Research and Training.

His courses for students, teachers, industrial executives and employees, teacher educators and administrators are very popular. He is a permanent resource person for the Academic Staff Colleges of Madras and other southern Universities and correspondence courses for B.Ed. and M.Ed.,M.B.A. and M.A.(English) degrees of many universities.

Dr.Pillai's foreign visits include Nepal, United Kingdom (twice), Kenya, Nigeria, Italy(three times),Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Germany, Austria, Czech, Slovakia, Switzerland and United States of America.

An awardee of Commonwealth Education Fellowship for specializing in English for Specific Purposes in U.K. in 1978, of Government of Britain's Technical Cooperation and Training Award for Teacher Education : Distance Education as a collaborative Project between TTTI and the University of Lancaster in 1988, Dr.Pillai is also an awardee of the Government of India's Foreign Assignment to the Government of Nigeria in 1982-1984.

Dr.Swaminatha Pillai's family comprises his wife VIMALA SWAMINATHAN,B.A.(History), housewife, their first daughter, Mrs. PREMAKALYANI MEENAKSHISUNDARAM,M.A.(English), M.Ed.,M.Phil.(Education),P.G.Teacher(English), Chinmaya Vidyalaya Higher Secondary School, Virugambakkam, Chennai-600092,their first son-in-law S.MEENAKSHISUNDARAM,B.Com., (C.A.), practising auditor,their grand daughters AKSHAYA SARASWATHI and SWETHA VIMALA,their second daughter, GNANAMBAL, (B.A.), to be married,their elder son S.SIVAGURUNATHAN,M.Com.,P.G.Diploma in Computer Applications, Managing Partner, Viswaguru Constructions and Hi-Tech Builders, Chennai, and Proprietor, Asvini Foundations and Asvini Constructions, Chennai, Mrs.ARTHI SIVAGURUNATHAN, B.Com.,(C.A.), Formerly Asst. Manager, TRIVITRON, Chennai,their grand daughters, SNEHA and SHRADDHA, their younger son, S.SHADAKSHARAM,B.E.,P.G.D.B.A.,(M.B.A.), Senior Business Development Manager, First Internet Systems (P) Ltd., Bangalore, and their second daughter-in-law, Mrs.S.RAJALAKSHMI,B.E., Team Leader,Delphi Automotives, Bangalore, and their third daughter, Mrs.ANGAYARKANNI,B.Sc.(Nutrition & Dietetics),B.L.I.S.,P.G.Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics, P.G.Diploma in Computer Applications,(M.C.A.),M.A.(Mass Communication) Coordinator (Copy Editing), Scientific Publishing Co., Chennai and their second son-in-lawJOSEPH JULIEN,Head of Catering Department, Devaki Hospital, Chennai

Dr.S.Swaminatha Pillai is currently the secretary of a non-governmental non-profit consultancy and service organization called SHRESDA(The Southern Human Resource Development Academy ), a registered society (No.513/98) with
Dr.Mrs.Jayakothai Pillai,
Former Vice-Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women's University, as the Chairperson,
Dr.V.P.Ramamurthi,
Director, Indian Institute of Professional Education and Chairman, Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering , Chennai, as the
vice-chairman,
Dr.A.Panneerselvam,
Fomer Director of Teacher Education, Research and Training of the Government of Tamilnadu and a former member of the Tamilnadu Council for Higher Education (TANSCHE), as the
treasurer,
Dr.P.S.Balasubramanian,
Former Professor and Head of the Department of Education of the University of Madras, and a former Tagore Professor of the University of Madras,
Prof.A.A.Ramachandran,
Former Head of the Department of Science of the Technical Teachers Training Institute of the Government of India,and
Dr.P.Ramani,
currently Professor of English, Guru Nanak College, Velachery, Chennai,
as
members
of the Executive Committee.

This organization accepts Research projects, Training programmes, publications and other services, utilising the expertise of its members as well as outside depending on the need of the consultancy.

Interested persons may contact in person or by writing to

Dr.S.Swaminatha Pillai,
G-4, HIG Flats, Adyar Apartments, Kottur Gardens, Kotturpuram, Chennai 600 085, or by telephoning to him in the numbers of

2447 0662 or 2003 3628 at Chennai,
or e-mailing to his personal or organizational address:
(i) swaminathan3@vsnl.com
(ii)swaminathapillai@hotmail.com

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