Students Shine
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) announced the winners of north regional round of Scholarship Awards in academia. The round took place in two phases. Manoj Sarda from IIT, Roorkee, and Hina Agarwal from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, won North Zone 1 regional round in the general and women categories, respectively.
Aditya Kamal from Jaipur Engineering College, Jaipur and Mansha Imtiyaz from Amity University, Noida, won the North Zone II round.The winners received a cash prize of Rs40,000 and a certificate each who will compete at the national finals to be held in Bangalore on August 26, 2014. The contestants were judged on their presentation skills, leadership potential, original ideas, and creativity of solution and depth of technical understanding.
PTE ACADEMIC TEST CENTRE
Pearson has launched its second dedicated Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) centre in New Delhi in partnership with Global Opportunities. This move is in line with the aim to widening the reach of PTE centers across India through collaboration with leading study abroad consultants to offers state-of-the-art consultancy and test preparation guidance for PTE. The test delivers real-life measures of students’ English language ability in four key communication skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. Students are also trained in grammar, oral fluency, pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary and written discourse.
Networking Session Organized
Sunstone Business School organised a networking session in Bangalore recently. Students from the school came together for a special professional development event. The session was initiated in order to help the students interact with the industry and understand it better.
Manish Singhal, founder and CEO of letsventure.com talked about the platform and the angel/startup ecosystem as it exists in India and how can you can use it to connect to like minded angels. The platform is currently in public beta, having received a good response from the ecosystem.
IMC CONClAVE
MBAUniverse.com has announced the 5th edition of the Indian Management Conclave (IMC). To be held in New Delhi on August 8-9, 2014, the two-day conclave will bring the best minds from India and abroad together to discuss the theme — Envisioning the Future of Indian MBA Education.
The aim of the conference is to find solutions to current crisis in Indian Management Education and develop a Vision for the future of Indian MBA education, 10 years from now – in 2025. The conclave will also see presentation of the IMC Awards 2014, which is an initiative to recognise the best practices in curriculum, pedagogy and industry engagement in Indian management education.
Speaking at the occasion Amit Agnihotri, convener, IMC & chairman, MBAUniverse.com said: “A lot still needs to be done. We all need to first do the doable; take actions and not wait for things to settle down.”
Courses For Security Supervisors
The Private Security Sector (PSS), estimated to grow to Rs900 billion industry employing over 10 million people directly and indirectly by 2022, is planning to carve out career pathways for its existing workforce and making the sector more lucrative for the youth by introducing a number of skills enhancement short term courses.
The Security Sector Skills Development Council (SSSDC), the apex body addressing the need for skill development in the private security sector, signed an memorandum of understanding with the Sardar Patel University of Police Training & Criminal Justice at a conclave, Excellence Though Skills and Education organised by SSSDC.
Commenting on the plans to launch short term courses, Kunwar Vikram Singh, chairman, SSSDC said: “The MoU will help us in increasing the number of training and education centres. Initially, the training programmes will be for 14 lakh untrained security supervisors in the country. This would include certificate and diploma courses.”
Tinkle Camel Colour Contest
Kokuyo Camlin has tied up with Tinkle magazines from the house of Amar Chitra Katha to announce the Tinkle Camel Colour Contest for children between the age eight to 14.
The contest that will run for three month, starts from the first day of the month to the end of the month for each issue. Each contest will bring alive various stories to its young readers and give them an opportunity to be more engaged, derive more excitement and make the stories more memorable. The first theme for the contest is from the Camel Art Contest. The story is titled Bring back the Colours where the children have to colour the story panels.
To enter the contest, readers can log on to www.tinkeonline.com or colour the two black and white pages in their Tinkle using Kokuyo Camlin colours. The page will have to be photographed along with details of the colours used and mailed to camelcontest@ack-media.com. The photographs can also be uploaded on the site. Ten best entries for every month will win goodie bags.