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Institute for Career Studies (ICS)
The Institute for Career Studies (ICS-International) established in 1985, has an international presence and experience of over two decades in providing career guidance and counselling services, conducting a broad spectrum of educational and training programmes and consultancy. ICS was recognised with The Times Group “Award for Excellence in Education” by the Hon’ble Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Ram Naik in June 2015.

About ICS-International
In the educational sector for career counselling and guidance programmes, ICS’s eminent team of counsellors and professionals has conducted career counselling and guidance programmes in more than 200 leading residential and day schools as well colleges  and universities and has reached out to over 2,50,000 students in India, South Asia and the Middle East. Apart from the career counselling and guidance programmes for the students, the centre also conducts programmes for School Counsellors on Personal and Professional Self, Emerging Educational and Career trends, Effective communication and networking to update their knowledge and hone their skills.

Founder-Director
Dr. Amrita Dass is a leading Educationist and Career-Consultant of the country. She is the Founder-Director of ICS-International and has the distinction of pioneering the career counselling and guidance services in India.

An outstanding scholar, she graduated from the Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow and was the recipient of two Merit scholarships. She was also awarded the Best Woman of the Year trophy. She did her post graduation in Western History from University of Lucknow, securing the first position with two gold medals. Thereafter, she did her Ph.D. in History and pursued doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University as a Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).

Dr. Dass has designed and conducted numerous professional Development programmes on Leadership for Principals focusing on Leadership in Education; on Excellence in Education for Teachers; and on Career Guidance for Counsellors. In the Higher Education sector, she contributes as a consultant to upcoming universities on a wide range of issues.Dr. Dass is a visiting faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow. She has also designed and conducted Leadership Programmes for corporates both national and multinationals.

A columnist for many newspapers, she writes on a wide range of educational, career and leadership issues.

Dr. Dass serves on the Governing Bodies of several renowned public schools. She has also been Ex-officio Director of the State Bank of India, Member of the Advisory Committee of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Memberof the Steering Committee on Women and Child Development, Planning Commission of India for the Ninth Five Year Plan.