conference on leadership
School of Inspired leadership (SOIl) recently held its annual Inspired leadership Conference 2016. The event involved talks on underlining the importance of establishing Dialogue across Differences for developing competency in leadership roles.
The two-day conference was chaired by the event’s key note speaker Arun Maira, former member of Planning Commission of India, and former chairman of Boston Consulting Group (India).
Speaking at the event, Anil Sachdev, founder-CEO, SOIl said: “As an institution we were compelled to raise awareness about the same. This forum has been successful in addressing competence in leadership roles, and will encourage management students to seriously consider their training as the first step towards becoming future leaders.”
library app & website
Indian Public library Movement (IPlM) is a multi stakeholder initiative hosted by the NASSCOM Foundation across 100 plus districts spread across 22 states.
This movement brings in variety of stakeholders together to revitalize public library space in the country. Transforming them into knowledge and information sharing centers catering to the needs of communities across India.
This movement brings in variety of stakeholders together to revitalise public libraries and bring back its lost glory.
Speaking on the occasion P Jayarajan, chairman, IPlM Advisory said: “The Indian Public library Movement is now gaining traction. The involvement of our partners helps bolster the initiative and bring in the critical support needed for a diverse nation-building program like this.”
indian students shine
Forty-one Indian students have achieved the highest marks and are top in world in a range of individual subjects in the November 2015, March 2016 and June 2016 exam series across Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge International AS level and Cambridge International A level.
A 101 students also achieved Top in Country across these qualifications.
These toppers from India will be recognised for their outstanding academic achievements with an Outstanding Cambridge learner certificate.
exellence award for ryan MD
Ryan International Group of Institutions’ MD, Grace Pinto has been given the prestigious Excellence Award for her contribution towards elderly people of the society on the International Day of the older persons organised by the HelpAge India recently.
The award was presented by Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge), MoS of Prime Minister’s Office. The gathering was addressed by Singh who applauded Pinto’s effort in strengthening the living standard of the elderly.
Speaking on the occasion Pinto said: “We are grateful to lord Jesus Christ for this honour and are thankful to all our parents, staff and students for their support and generosity towards this noble cause of the elderly of our society.”
The chairman, HelpAgeIndia, Amal Ganguli also lauded and acknowledged the contribution made by the Ryan Group.
workshop on Origami at iiAD
Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD) organised a special creative workshop on Origami Oritai at their Okhla campus in New Delhi. Indian origami artist Akira Yoshizawa was expert on this occasion. The aim of the workshop was to provide the knowledge about the origami.
Yoshizawa said that apart from unleashing creativity, it has also been known to improve one’s hand eye coordination temporal spatial skills ,concentration ,logical reasoning and sequencing ability.
The students of IIAD from fashion design, communication design and interior architecture and design programme participated in the workshop and made a variety of 3D objects from flat square sheets of coloured and textured paper .Their creations ranged from butterflies ,bows , bags ,hearts, boxes, fujimoto cubes ,candle stands to strawberries amongst others.
initiatives in Digital learning
With a strong focus on becoming the leader in the digital learning world and to further accelerate NIIT’s own growth and profitability, the Company has charted a two-pronged business strategy:
First, an internal initiative addressing the digital transformation of its entire business model to drive growth, value and profitability; and Second, an external initiative focusing on training and consulting of individual and corporate customers to enable them to succeed in the digital world.
To this end, NIIT has entered into a partnership with US-based OpenMatters llC, the leader in Business Model Science. Under this partnership, NIIT will bring the content and expertise developed by OpenMatters for Wharton’s SEI Center, Knowledge@Wharton, and Harvard Business Review to the India, China and emerging markets.
Speaking on this significant development Rahul Patwardhan, CEO NIIT ltd., said: “This two tiered partnership leveraging the exciting newage digital technologies that are impacting every industry and company and their business model.”