Conference for young people
An exclusive Conference for young people — The Shift — is a mix of incredible speakers – enormous thinkers, achievers and teachers whose inspirational message will be interspersed with fun, creativity and highly talented performances.
The conference will be held on February 8, 2014 at Nehru Memorial Museum and library, Teen Murti Bhawan. The conference is about making the shift andto inspire young students, aspiring entrepreneurs to make a change in their thinking, perceptions and ideas about their lives and their future.
lecture Tour
Anglo Schools International Services (ASIS) is organising a Meet the Principal lecture tour in eight major cities from January 20 to February 5, 2014. The tour is to educate people about ASIS and the UK education system, highlightinga new approach to schooling is needed if young Indians are to prosper on the world stage.
This will be the first time that there is one such platform where parents and students can directly address the foreign educationist and have their questions clarified.
Stock Market venture course
Edge Institute of Financial Studies (EIFS), an institute for educating individuals to manage and grow their portfolio in the stock market, announces a unique course in Investing in Stock Market.
The course lectures will be taken up by Varun Malhotra who is an MBA in Finance from IIM-Ahmedabad and Washington University in St louis, US. Course duration is 32 hours and the classes are conducted on Sundays. EIFS is also offering a free three hour seminar on the same on January 11 and January 18 (Saturday), 2014 for people in Delhi (NCR).
The eligibility for the course is 10-plus and therefore any individual who is a Class X pass out and is keen to learn about investing in stock market is eligible for this course.
The cost for enrolling for the complete course is Rs 12,900.
Seminar on aviation at jrn
JRN Institute of Aviation Technology organised seminar on The Current Scenario in Aviation sector and Role of AME at Government Model Senior Secondary School,Sec-4, Gurgaon. Principle Virendre Sharma welcomed the guest speaker Rakesh Ranjan.
The event was organiwed in two sessions. First session highlighted the importance of AME course as a carrier option. Skills of hard work in right direction and self-improvement were also explained. Second session was interactive.
Students showed their interest and expressed their views.
Peace Award for Dr Saini
DPS RK Puram principal, Dr DR Saini was conferred with the prestigious Ambassador of Peace Award on January 4 during the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week 2014, Interfaith Harmony for Peace Building and Good Governance.
The Universal Peace Federation and its network of Ambassadors for Peace celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week each year.
Scholarships on offer
Imperial College london and its Indian supporters association, the Imperial College India Foundation, have announced the expansion of their scholarship programme for academically outstanding Indian students to study at postgraduate level.
The scholarships, will be tenable from 2014 and will offer two fully funded Master’s scholarships, as well as one full PhD scholarship, for Indian nationals residing in India. The total value of each of the full scholarships per year is £40k.
The scholarships cover full cost of (overseas) tuition fees, a maintenance allowance, some additional costs and an airfare to India. This includes: Maintenance allowance equal to Imperial’s minimum stipend allowance in any given year, an arrival allowance and one return flight to India.
The aim of the foundation scholarships is to attract the most talented Indian students along with a focus on supporting those in financial need.
Students will be given access to world class academic training and support throughout their studies which can help them contribute to society, industry and academia upon their return to India.
Strategic tie-up
Adobe and Aditya Educational Institutions announced a strategic tie-up to help students gain industry-ready skills by setting up the first Centre of Excellence (CoE) in South India.
Founded under the Adobe Creative Technology Academy initiative, the CoE will provide an industry leading integrated programme on Adobe software, curriculum, support and certification resources, which will be integrated into the educational institution’s curriculum. As a result, students gain hands-on experience with the latest technologies and develop skills to help them excel in the 21st century workplace.
Satish Reddy, vice-chairman, Aditya Educational Institutions said: “The tie-up will help the students in an efficient way to discover new technologies and enable them to be ready for the job market.”
Under this agreement, students will also have the opportunity to sit for the Adobe Certified Associate exam and obtain a certificate on some of Adobe’s leading tools.
2013 cat results announced
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) has announced that the results for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 will be available from January 14, 2014.
Candidates will be able to log on to IIM’s secure portal via the CAT website www.cat2013.iimidr.ac.ins. Candidates are advised to retain a printed copy of their score card. Access to CAT 2013 results will available until December 31, 2014. “Management of results data went smoothly, and the IIMs have verified and securely uploaded CAT 2013 results data to our secure site,” said Professor Rohit Kapoor, CAT 2013 Convenor.
CAT 2013 was conducted successfully in 76 secure test centres across 40 cities over a 20-day testing window from 16 October to 11 November 2013.
Seminar on Interview Skills
DPGITM Engineering College invited a US-based consultancy company —Deloitte Consultancy India Pvt ltd — with the motive of guiding its students on different aspects of training and placements.
A team of 30-35 members from the company visited the campus. On the occasion a seminar was also organised wherein students were described about resume writing, presentation skills, time management and other important aspects of career and job. The Chief Guest of the event was Tarun Nanda- consultant, SAP package technology, Deloitte.
Through presentations students were informed about the importance of overall personality and communicated the ways of personality development. The event was not only informative but interactive too. Students and faculty members also asked their queries and shared their views. principal JS Mehenwal who said that the event was organised with the motive of making students aware about strategies of attaining success in interviews.
ITM‘Settled’ Rory raring to go varisty & PGCIl sign mou
ITM University (ITMU), Gurgaon recently entered into a pact with Power Grid Corporation of India ltd (PGCIl), a Navratna public sector enterprise and one of the largest power transmission utilities in the world,in a bid to align its teaching processwith the best of industry practices.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Prof PremVrat, Vice Chancellor of ITM University, and Rajendra Singh, Executive Director (human resources), PGCIl.
“As part of ITMU’s vision of establishing strong academic-industry relationship, the university signed a pact with Power Grid Corporation of India which will help enrich our teaching-learning process and promote university collaboration in projects and research,” said Professor Prem Vrat.
The main objective of the pact is to begin a long-term collaboration between Power Grid Corp and ITM University, Gurgaon in the areas of business engineering and organisational development by exchanging intellectual and infrastructure resources ofboth the organisations.