Inter-school symposium
Exun Clan, the Computer Society of Delhi Public School, RK Puram conducted its 18th Inter-School Symposium from 30th of the oldest and most prestigious computer clubs in Delhi.
Short for Experts Unlimited, it was formed in 1992 by the head of the department, Computer Science, Mukesh Kumar and a small group of computer enthusiasts. This year over 50 schools participated in 15 IT related events.
The guest of honour was Dr Alok Bharadwaj, executive VP, Canon India. Also present was the principal of RK Puram, Dr DR Saini.
Admission alert
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The applicants should pass 10+2 from any recognized board with 70 per cent in English and 65 per cent in aggregated. Class XII students appearing or waiting may also apply for provisional admission.
The application form is available at an RMI institute near you. Interested students may send their request at rmidelhi@educompraffles.com mentioning subject as ‘application form’ with your details and contact number.
Scholarships on offer
Podar College of Commerce and Economics, is to work with global accountancy body the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA ) to raise awareness among their students as future business leaders about the role the finance profession can play in combating the impact of climate change and environmental damage.
It is also offering scholarships to 75 winners of various finance-based national competitions. The scholarships `12 lakh — will facilitate students to join the ACCA fraternity globally and be part of ACCA’s half million student base around the world.
Foreign Exchange programme
Singapore based Six Capital launched India’s first ever training programme on foreign exchange (FX) trading. The 12-week long course is designed to train aspiring individuals into professional FX dealers. It aims to build their foundation by training participants on the basics of FX and how markets operate to achieve small, consistent profits under all market conditions.
The course was inaugurated at Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai nd extend across other cities shortly.
EdX and MIT alumni meet
The MIT Club hosted the first ever edX and MIT alumni get-together, at the Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai, New Delhi. The focus of the event was to honour those who have successfully completed one or more MIT-edX courses and celebrate their achievement with the MIT New Delhi Alumni.
More than 100 edX achievers were present at this event. This platform gave the achievers an opportunity to share their stories and talk about how this new innovation in education.
Mobile learning app
IEC University has come up with its first mobile learning application, test to help students check their preparedness for certain sections of JEE exam.
loaded with 1,000-plus questions, the test provides quick and easy interface to test JEE preparation. Apart from this, the application also gives information regarding useful resources for test preparation.
This free mobile application acquaints students with the test format and timing thus helping students become more familiar with the test and more confident on test day. The application is available on android and apple phones.
At present, this application is available only for students appearing in JEE exam. but be updated for students appearing in CPMT, MAT and NATA.
This app has a reference book section, where students can find the names of the useful books and all basic formulae in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. In addition to it, it contains five levels of mock test which has 30 questions in each level. These questions get changed every 15 days.
The application was launched on of November 26, 13 and the size of the application is 9 mb.
UnivQuest launches new Test
To help students fight confusions regarding careers to choose from and opt the right one depending upon their propensity and potential, FIITJEE, India’s premier education training brand, has come out with a first-of-its-kind examination — Escape Velocity Test — that would weigh their aptitude, discover the potential and help them set academic goals so that they achieve professionally what they aspire for.
The aim of the test, which is conceptualised, designed and developed by the best brains at FIITJEE, is to equip students adequately to help them choose the appropriate career.
The test has three components — a potential discovery test in a stream of choice, and an aptitude test to help the student understand the appropriateness of the career/stream chosen. The next step is to provide the student with the best Goal Setting and Achievement Plan. This test is relevant for students preparing for JEE main, JEE advanced, Olympiads, NTSE and for those wishing to pursue any stream abroad.
Seminar on Aviation Industry
With the aim of creating awareness about Aviation Industry, JRN Institute of Aviation Technology organised one-day workshop at Government Model Senior Secondary School,Sec-4, Gurgaon. Principle Virendre Sharma welcomed the guest speaker Rakesh Ranjan and Vani Sharma. Along with principal, other faculty members and 80 students were present on the occasion.
Speaking at the seminar, Ranjan said that when we think of aviation, pilots, airhostess and few other positions comes in our mind. But the truth is that apart from pilots and cabin crews, there are around 25 aircraft maintenance engineers and 60 ground staff needed for successful operations of any single aircraft. As this industry is growing rapidly, there is lot of scope for students in this field.
Workshop on network & information security
A workshop on network and information security was organised at Ansal Institute of Technology & Management (Ansal Technical Campus) from December 5 to 8, 2013. Dr Satish Chandra, eminent scientist from the US, inaugurated the four-day workshop.
This workshop was aimed towards faculty development programme for the benefit of the faculty members of technical institutes affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University. Eighty faculty members from various institutes and universities registered for this workshop on the cutting edge technology. The workshop covered the aspects of security fundamentals, network security, cryptographic techniques for network security and biometric security.
The purpose was to prevent and monitor unauthorised access, misuse, modification or denial of information and information systems. Today security is becoming increasingly important in networked world and is impacting every aspect like finance, healthcare, Government, education, art and entertainment.
Modern Banker programme
Timespro has launched a training course for graduates, aimed at bridging the skills-gap in the banking industry and transforming candidates into job-ready professionals. It has partnered with HDFC Bank to co-develop the content of the training course, titled The Modern Banker programme.
Applicants will undergo a robust selection process and the bank will make a conditional offer of employment to selected candidates at the start of the course.
Extending to a little over two months, the programme will craft talented graduates under the age of 25, into professionals by training them for various retail (branch) banking roles such as personal bankers and tellers. The course is reasonably priced and value-for-money training for graduates. This course will be imparted by the expert faculty. The programme will be held in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, lucknow, Jaipur and Bhubaneswar.
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