Mou signed
la Trobe University, Australia will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sharda University on May 2, 2013 in New Delhi.
The delegation from la Trobe will be headed by Prof John Rosenberg, senior deputy vice-chancellor and VP and Prof Brian McGaw executive dean, faculty of science, technology and engineering. Some of the other announcements that will be made will pertain to the inauguration of a new and bigger la Trobe University India office in Delhi to help students from India and South Asia access to better opportunities.
Student felicitated at ryan
Karman Kaur Thandi a student of Class X, Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj excelled at the State and National level AITA Championship series Tournament, held in ludhiana. The series was held for girls under 16 singles and doubles and the PNB-ITF Junior Tennis Tournament Grade 5, held in Indore for girls under 18 doubles. It is with the motivation and inspiration of chairman Ryan International Group of Institutions Dr AF Pinto that students get a platform to nurture their talent.
New course on offer
VIVO Healthcare Institute, a training centre focused on developing all round skills needed to succeed in the healthcare industry, has announced a new course — Emergency Medical Technician (Basic).
The duration of the course is four months. Those students who are interested to apply for the EMT need to have passed their Class 12 (Science background preferred). The students will be selected on the basis of an interview and skill assessment. The application form can be collected from VIVO Healthcare admission office in Gurgaon. last date to apply is May 15, 2013.
Workshop at fddi
Footwear Design And Development Institute recently conducted a workshop-cum-exhibition on visual merchandising and retail site selection at FDDI. The theme reflected the imaginative, innovative and efficient use of existing resources in the most precise manner. The workshop encouraged the students to experiment with innovation and create a stunning, unique display with materials that are readily available.
Online course for schools
Meritnation, the largest online education company in the K12 sector (kindergarten to Class XII) has launched its complete range in online courses for students in Classes VI to Class X under Maharashtra State Board. These online courses for Maths, Science, English and Hindi include multimedia lessons, revision notes, chapter wise practice tests and model tests.
The students will also be able to benefit from unique adaptive assessment engine — Formative Assessment — that is aimed to identify and improve weak areas.
IMI ranks at no 6
International Management Institute (IMI) has secured a commendable overall rank of No 6 in the latest ranking released by the NHRD (National Human Resources Development) Network. In addition to its overall sixth rank amongst all B Schools, IMI has also earned the distinction of securing the No 2 slot amongst the B-schools in North India and many leading management institutes in the region.
The NHRD is a leading apex body of human resource professionals with a membership base of 12,500. Its primary role is to enhance and strengthen professionalism and learning standards amongst the Human resource fraternity in the country.
In the functional disciplines, IMI has established its leadership status through its impressive ranking in the areas of Human resources (rank 2), Marketing (rank 3), Finance (rank 5), Strategy (rank 5) and Operations (rank 7).
Speaking on the ranking of the institute Dr Pritam Singh, DG, IMI said: “At IMI we develop socially sensitive, ethical, value adding leaders and organisations through relevant teaching, research, training and consulting that serve stakeholders’ interests.”
Gold for manav sthali
Manav Sthali School, R Block, New Rajendra Nagar, New Delhi has won two gold medals in Odyssey of the mind. It is an international programme that provides problem solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to performing their own interpretation of literary classics.
Thousands of teams from the US and from 25 other countries participated in the programme this year. The teams that won gold medals in the regional level presented creative solution to a mechanical based problem and a performance based problem.
In the mechanical based problem a team of seven students between the age group of 13-14 years along with two coaches had to design and depict a creative performance that includes a technical representation of messages being sent by email where in team members were not allowed to touch the emails while the server is processing the message.
Scholarship for Specially Abled
HUM, a non profit trust founded by the two times Grammy nominated tabla maestro Sandeep Das and lANXESS, a global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Germany, forged a co-operation.
As a part of their partnership, a scholarship has been awarded to the specially abled children for training in vocal music and tabla.
Three visually impaired students were given the national scholarship for a period of five years. The scholarship was presented on April 18. Speaking on the occasion, Das said: “I believe that music has the potential to be a great social enabler and we at HUM recognise this. We are already working with three visually impaired children. And two have even performed with visiting international stars at shows held in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.”
Seminar at dgpitm
DPGITM, an engineering college, organised a seminar on the topic Role of higher education for technical students. The motive of the seminar was to aware students about the importance of higher education. Chairman Rajender Gahlot, DPGITM welcomed the chief guest Abhilasha Gaur, principal of Algol School of Technology and Management. JS Mehenwal- principal of DPGITM, other faculty members and students were also present at the occasion.
Speaking at the seminar, Gaur said: “Higher education is must for better life. Its importance has become evident in terms of earning. This helps in improving lifestyle and raising living standards of a person, which results in positive impact on country’s economy.”
The event was organised in two sessions. First session highlighted the importance of higher education in country’s social and economic growth. Skills of hard work in right direction and self-improvement were also explained. The second session was based more on interaction.
Counselling sessions
Representatives from loughborough University will be visiting Delhi on May 8 and 9 to meet students and answer their queries. Dr lisa Blenkinsop, a senior international officer at the University, will be available at Aspire (Satya Niketan) between 2 pm to 5 pm on May 8, 2013 to interact on a one-to-one basis with students and advice them on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, application procedure and scholarship opportunities.
On May 9, 2013 she will be visiting The Chopras (Nehru Place) and Study Overseas (Nehru Place) from 11 am to 2 pm and 2.30 pm to 5 pm respectively. With over 15,000 students, including 159 students from India, loughborough University has been a consistent rank holder in UK’s top 20 universities for 10 consecutive years since 2002 in The Times Good University Guide.
The university offers an array of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees with 21 academic schools under its affiliation including arts, business and economics, chemical engineering, English and drama and politics to name a few.