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Annual fest at dpgitm

The annual fest of DPGITM Engineering College was a big hit. The five-day celebration started with warm welcome of chief guest Abhay Singh Chaulta- MlA & former president Indian Olympic Association and guest of honours Ganga Ram, MlA Pataudi and Gopi Chand Gahlot, ex deputy speaker, Haryana.

At this occasion chairman Rajendra Gahlot, vice chairman Deepak Gahlot and students and faculty members from, DPGITM, DPG Polytechnic and CPSM college were present.  More than 500 students participated in the programme.

Education in Ireland

Education in Ireland, the international brand responsible for the international development and growth of Ireland’s education sector, held an event recently, designed to provide aspirational Indian students an opportunity to interact and understand the exceptional prospects Ireland has to offer.

“Irish universities are offering Indian students fully funded scholarships, employment opportunities and a one-year post study visa. We realise the potential of the students and want to extend this opportunity to help them grow,” said James Mackrill, manager, Education in Ireland, India, China and Russia.

cultural fest

For the welfare of differently abled children, a two day mega cultural fest Tecnia Utsav-2014 is going to be organised by the Tecnia Group of Institutions at the Tecnia International School. Students from different colleges of Delhi and NCR would participate in inter college competitions on a variety of performances.

The main attraction of the event will be live performances of Alfaaz, Roshan Prince, Star Cast of Movie Ishq Brandy, Kingh Sam, DJ happy Chopra of Honey Singh fame, Nirbhaya NAwab and Eddy. The highlights of the events are rhyme recitation, colouring competition, group dance, extempore, quiz, footloose, street dance, one act play, folk dance, solo singing, mono acting, etc.

Conference at mdi

In association with its worldwide partner institutions, MDI plans to set an agenda for organising a series of global conferences on Managing in Recovering Markets. It plans to hold four international conferences for the next three years. The objective is not only to enhance research in the area but also give relevance to the thought process. Besides the one to be held in March in Gurgaon, there are three other conferences slated to be held in October, November and December 2014 in South Asia, Australia or North America.

health conference

India’s first International Communication Management Conference (ICMC 2014), on Managing Health Communication concluded recently at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA).

ICMC 2014 brought together healthcare providers, communication professionals, academia, donor agencies, marketing experts, policy makers and activists all under one roof.

RYAN GROUP SHINES

Ryan International Group of Institutions was named as Asia’s best private education institute in the K12 category, at the recently held WCRC leaders Asian Education Excellence Summit & Awards. The process advisors and evaluators for this were KPMG.

While accepting the award on the behalf of the group, Ryan Pinto, CEO, said: “I thank Jesus Christ Almighty for this recognition. It is the vision and leadership of our chairman, Dr AF Pinto and MD Grace Pinto and the hard work of our teams that enable us to be awarded with such recognition. It is indeed a pleasure to receive this award in the presence of our Asian peers. It is an important milestone in our journey to give our children the best education in the world and we continue to strive hard towards this purpose.”

IMI-RBI collaboration

IMI, Delhi and RBI in collaboration with ESCP- Paris & Berlin and SDA Bacconi School of Management, Milan organized 13th Advanced Management Programme on Building Global Competitive Edge in Indian banking sector recently.

The programme was inaugurated by Arun Kaul, CMD, UCO Bank. Addressing to the audience, he shared the transformation story of UCO Bank from being almost on verge of closure to being one of the leading banks.

The programme revolved around the issues of technology acceptability, HR issues, impersonal customer services and traditional business model faced by today’s public sector banks.  Dr Asha Bhadarker, Professor, IMI-New Delhi, and the program director said that to thrive and excel in the present age, Indian banks need to build truly competitive edge which will become the key differentiator for success. “There is need to focus on innovation and high quality performance through the human talent,”  Dr Asha said.

lecture on Enterprise Architecture

Greater Noida Institute of Technology organized a lecture on Enterprise Architecture-Career Opportunity in the field of Digital Science. Dr Robert A Walker director, School of Digital Science, Kent State University enlightened students about this course. The event was organised in the supervision of Bl Gupta vice chairman, GNIOT Group of Institution. The event has been organised for B.Tech 2nd and 3rd year students.

Gupta expressed thanks to Dr Robert and requested more lectures on the subject from him in near future. The motive of the event was to aware students about the new and emerging fields; it will help them in choosing their careers. Around 300 students attended the event.

applications invited

Stirling Management School at the University of Stirling in Scotland extends an invitation to Indian students to apply for prestigious scholarships which offer substantial funding towards course fees at the institution.

Those students interested in joining the MBA programme in September 2014 have several scholarship opportunities. The MBA leader of the Future Scholarship provides full funding for one overseas student’s tuition fees (with a value of £15,900), while an additional three MBA International leader of the Future Scholarships will award £8,000 towards tuition fees.

Stirling Management School, in partnership with the British Council, is also delighted to offer two Indian students a Great MBA India scholarship contributing £4500 towards the cost of MBA tuition fees.

In order to apply for these scholarships, applicants need to have already applied to Stirling and be in receipt of a conditional or unconditional offer of a place on the full-time MBA. The closing date for receipt of all scholarship applications is June 10, 2014.

scholarship on offer

The University of Bristol offers international office scholarship opportunities for students applying to them. They have five scholarships of £8,500 available for prospective masters students and another five scholarships of the same worth for prospective undergraduate students.

The scholarship is divided in to three parts for three years; £3,000 in first, £3,000 in second and £2,500 in third year. No awards will be made for subsequent years. There are certain eligibility criteria. All applicants must be classed as overseas students for fee purposes.

Applicants must already hold an offer of a place on a full-time undergraduate or master’s programme at the University of Bristol. Third, applicants may be from any discipline. Sponsored students and students in receipt of another scholarship/award over £3,000 are not eligible to apply. Present University of Bristol students are not eligible to apply.

Interested applicants can apply online and are required to submit a short essay of up to 350 words. The deadline for the receipt of applications is June 13, 2014.