Many exciting career opportunities will become available to science graduates from India as the country aims to become the sixth largest scientific power-house, according to a leading Sydney academic. Today, scientists are employed all around the world, with 40 per cent of Indian science graduates working internationally, but the demand locally is predicted to rise. Professor Bruce Milthorpe, dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in Australia, who is on India tour to highlight the range of careers in science, suggests that students should prepare for an international career by becoming a higher education, undergraduate or postgraduate student in Australia. “Studying science can lead to careers that will help the world solve challenging problems and contribute to India’s future. Indian students should be excited about the government’s plans for 2017 to create more than 100,000 additional positions for researchers and scientists,” Professor Milthorpe said.
ICAI president elected as IFAC board member
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), is a global organisation for the accountants is dedicated to serving the public interest by contributing to the development of international economies. The organisation has recently elected CA K Raghu, President, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) as the Board Member of IFAC. He shall hold office for a period of three years from November 2014 to November 2017.
After this announcement at the IFAC council meeting which was held recently at Rome, Italy, Raghu expressed his gratitude to the members and said; “I humbly take pride in joining the league of world accountancy leaders serving the profession globally. In this highly responsible and prestigious position, I look forward to proactively linking Indian accounting vision and issues with the ultimate vision of IFAC, which is to get global accountancy profession recognised as a valued leader in the development of strong and sustainable organisations, financial markets, and economies.”
Raghu has held numerous leadership positions within the profession.
MoU signed
The OP Jindal University (OPJU), Raigarh, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the College of New Caledonia (CNC), Canada, to promote excellence in training, research, capacity building and to enrich the learning experience for students, enabling them to understand the global economy and environment.
From international exposure through exchange programme, collaborative research, innovation and entrepreneurship projects and different teaching methodology, OPJU and CNC will encourage collaboration in all these areas. This collaboration aims to ensure that students graduating from OPJU are equipped to handle and overcome challenges they face in the highly-competitive global environment.
Annual Day celebrated
The annual day celebration of Father Agnel School, Noida for Class I and II was organised on Saturday in the presence of parents, teachers and other special invitees at the school auditorium. A colorful musical extravaganza titled — The Modern Day Fairy Tales — was presented by the school children conceptualising the essence of life viz honesty, kindness, responsibility, forget and forgiveness and patience. On the occasion, Reverend Father J A Carvalho, director of the school, said that the school children exhibited the principles and abiding lessons of life for a person to be righteous and wonderful.
“Children give lessons of life. Walk with us (school), walk with them (children) to be honest, sincere and righteous. These may be difficult to practice but we can achieve if we’ve conviction,” Carvalho said in the presence of Principal Sister Sherine, the co-coordinator of the programme Ankita Bahuguna, amongst other school teachers. Carvalho urged the parents to be role model for their children by practicing whatever was preached on the day in the school auditorium.
Silai school programme
The Usha International limited has launch Usha Silai School programme in Bhutan in association with Tarayana Foundation. After 4,400 silai schools in India and 100 in Nepal, this programme aims to empower village women.
As a part of the 10 day silai school training programme, 20 women have been selected from three districts of Bhutan on the basis of assessment guidelines shared by Usha. These women would be trained on advanced sewing techniques to become Master trainers. These trainers will thereafter not only provide sewing services in their own villages but will also train other women as an income generating activity.
New course launched
The National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata is planning to launch an Executive Programme in Sexual Harassment Prevention and Workplace Diversity for the first time in India.
Designed by a group of top law firms, senior litigators, former women’s commission members and general counsels of top MNCs, the course will enable learners to implement sexual harassment prevention laws in their organisation and help businesses with tailor made implementation, compliance, training and audit systems for creation of better workplaces.
Scholarship launched
The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness The Dalai lama and WHO Goodwill ambassador for leprosy eradication, Yohei Sasakawa announced the donation of US $100,000 annually over a period of five years for the education of children from leprosy affected families.
Named as HH the Dalai lama-Sasakawa Scholarship, this will be administered jointly by Sasakawa India leprosy Foundation (SIlF) and the Association of People Affected by leprosy (APAl) will focus on providing financial support for induction and completion of professional courses by these children.
School celebrated 25th Annual Day
The Sumermal Jain Public School, Janakpuri organised 25th Annual Day at Talkatora Stadium. Member of Parliament Parvesh Verma and the RSS North India Chief Bajrang lal Gupta were the chief guests on the occasion. They were welcomed by the founder chairman of the School Kl Jain, Treasurer Sonali Jain, Director Dr GR Kanwal and other members of the school.
The students of the school performed an invigorating cultural programme that showcased the uniqueness of Sumermal Jain Public School. The function started with the rendition of the school song and a beautiful hymn Mahishasur Mardni by the melodious school choir. The dance drama Sare jahan se Accha... was staged with a message of our nations’ numero uno character. The annual report of the school was released by the principal Smita Amit that highlighted the brilliant performance of the school which is affiliated to CBSE. It was established in 1989 and since then it has been dedicated to free education to economically weaker section of the society and provides a number of scholarships to meritorious students.