University conference
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who was chief guest at the seminal Conference on International Relations 2013, held in Pune, took time out to address a gathering of foreign students at Symbiosis Vishwabhavan on December 15, 2013.
The President took questions from the students and expressed his hope that quality education will pave the path to enhanced relations between India and Afghanistan.
The President said: “India has proven to be an ageold friend and recent initiatives have made the ties stronger, including the deep rooting of our respective democracies.”
Maths Crusade at dps rkp
The World Mathematical Crusade was hosted by Delhi Public School, RK Puram on the December 26. Over 50 schools across the country participated in the event. The chief guest on the occasion was the chairman of the CBSE, Vineet Joshi. The guest of honour was the founder of Ganit Guru and MD of Elipsis Consulting Pvt. ltd, Dr Atul Nischal.
The principal, Dr DR Saini, extended a warm welcome to all and said: “Mathematics transcends all boundaries of region, language and culture.” Speaking at the event Joshi spoke about the significance of the discipline in our daily lives.
Classteacher in bett fair
British Educational Training and Technology (BETT) is the largest education fair in the world, where hundreds of noted companies and institutions, serving in education industry (directly/indirectly) takes part and showcase their various products they are using to serve the noble industry.
Classteacher learning Systems is one of the few leading educational companies from India participating in such huge event.
The systems is showcasing its various products in the Bett london show 2014 which includes UK and US launch of the classroom management system, the one stop for all the solutions needed for a smart classroom.
Competition at fddi
The Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI), Noida in collaboration with The Times of India NIE and Green Partner, BSA Hercules Cycles organised TZing with Times, T-shirt painting competition.
“Through painting competition, we tried to establish a platform for students of around 30 schools from Delhi/NCR to translate and capture a positive attitude towards the lucrative career option available. Equipped with creative ideas and paint brushes, children transformed the white fabric into vibrant colourful delights expressing the dangers that environment change can pose for the world,” Raajeev j lakhara, MD, FDDI said.
Students of Class XI and XII of various schools of Noida, Greater Noida, Delhi and Ghaziabad participated with full enthusiasm and presented their creative views on the given theme Climate Change & its Consequences.
Kunal Gautam (Class XI) of Aster Public School, Greater Noida bagged the first position and won a cash prize of `5,000. In second prize went to Tanish Karmakar (Class XI), from Vishwa Bharati Public School, Noida who won `3,000.
Joint venture
South Korea’s biggest coaching conglomerate, has joined hands with Motion Education, Kota’s fastest growing Institute, to promote online coaching in India. Both companies are confident that this tie-up will produce a synergy that will maximize the benefits of both parties. The venture will aim to provide top quality of content to students.
Motion Education, now in its seventh year, has made rapid strides in JEE Classroom Coaching and is known for its best feedback faculty, unique study material support, student–parent friendly academic system and high student selection ratio. Etoos Academy is known for its knowledge and experience of past 18 years in online coaching.
Kim, Do Hyeong, MD Etoos Academy said that his company went through many trial and errors since it entered into Indian market. Nitin Vijay, MD Motion Education said that e-learning is at beginning stage in India. With their common vision for future of Education in India will be able to become the number one player in online coaching in India within five years. The joint venture will offer recorded lectures from best feedback on high quality technology platform.
Agreement signed
NCUK has signed an agreement with the Delhi-based training arm of The Chopras — The Chopras Institute of Professional Education (TCIPE). This agreement for NCUK is also the first of three new market entries coming to fruition in 2014. January will also see a return to the Malaysian market for NCUK. In September 2014, NCUK’s first centre in latin America is due to open its doors to prospective students.
Speaking at the event Naveen Chopra, chairman The Chopras and TCIPE said: “In India people are convinced that the best way to progress with their career is through education, but they demand both quality and value for money. We have a great track record of providing both, and with the guaranteed progression on completion that NCUK offer we think we have a winning product for Indian students.”
Dr Kenneth Gill, chief executive of NCUK, welcomed the latest NCUK partner. “NCUK together with TCIPE will offer Indian students a cost-effective way to gain advantage,” Gill said.
Two-day marketing meet
Great lakes Institute of management inaugurated the 7th International Great lakes —North American Society for Marketing Education in India marketing conference at its campus.
The two-day international conference by the Kotler-Srinivasan Research in marketing, Great lakes Institute of Management will witness presentations from professors and doctoral students from leading schools in India, US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, France and Hong Kong.
The conference aims to prepare business ready managers for the industry with knowledge in marketing and with the emerging changes. Professors and doctoral students from universities across globe will present 109 papers on different areas of marketing.
Parent-Employee Programme
ChangeYourBoss.com an online job portal has initiated a parent employee programme to balance the scales of professional and personal lives of the employees.
The portal has introduced an innovative concept wherein the employees’ families visit the workplace of their ward and experience the workplace atmosphere.
The initiative is to ensure that workplaces no longer remain an alien place for parents or rather parents can take a sigh of relief and be assured that their children are in the right organisation with the right company of people.
This initiative has laid a new foundation in corporate world nurturing healthy relations among employees and their employers.
Bhupender Mehta, founder & CEO, ChangeYourBoss.com s expansion of scholarshipsaid: “We introduced this programme to bring a strong connect between parents and employees so as to make the parents aware about their kids workplaces where they spend their almost complete day. The initiative has helped many.”
Expansion of scholarships
Twelve of Britain’s leading boarding schools announces that they have expanded their scholarship offering to more than `7 crore for Indian pupils to come to study with them.
Anglo Schools International Services (ASIS), which has pulled this new federation of British schools together, also announces that it has reached agreement with Pearson VUE, the global leader in computer based testing, to offer entrance exams for interested pupils in 16 locations across India.
Commenting on the announcement, which coincides with the launch of the Anglo Schools website (www.angloschools.co.uk), ASIS principal, David Boddy said: “As the federation was forming I was hopeful that the UK schools would be generous with the scholarships for Indian youngsters, but I am overwhelmed. The scholarships and other financial help on offer does not just cover one year — it covers all the years the pupil is at the British school. It is an extraordinary opportunity.”
Pupils who wish to compete for the scholarships register via the Anglo Schools website.