Applications invited
Manovikas Institute of Higher Education invites application for admission to Certified Credit Course in Hospitality, Retail, Basic Business and office attendence Training Programme for Persons with Intellectual and other Developmental Disabilities.
Programmes are designed for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities including persons with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, specific learning disability/slow learners. May require a complete assessment of the applicant’s cognitive process, behavioural profile, multiple intelligence and aptitude.
The forms for admission are available on the website manovikas.co.in or you can write to Manovikas Institute of Higher Education, A-267, Surajmal Vihar, Delhi-110092.
last date of submission of applications is January 14, 2014.
Admission alert
NIIT Imperia in collaboration with Indian Institute of Management- Tiruchirappalli invites applications for one year post graduate certificate programme in Brand and Advertising Management. The programme is designed to give new insights into the importance and value of a strongly differentiated brand and how brand and advertising can be used to build a strong and enduring business.
Executives in marketing/branding/advertising or those aspiring to take up these responsibilities and working professionals with minimum two years of experience can opt for the programme. The course aims to gain knowledge and skills that may be applied immediately to leverage brand for increased customer loyalty, competitive advantage and profitability.
Applicants should be working professionals/self-employed, graduates/post graduates in any discipline with minimum 50 per centmarks recognised by UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU with a minimum two years of work .
Applicants will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Program Aptitude Test (PAT). To apply visit www.niitimperia.com to fill the application form online.
Two-day conference
Centre for Civil Society and the leFrak Forum and the Symposium on Science, Reason and Modern Democracy, a privately funded research centre in the political science department at Michigan State University, in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation organised a two-day conference on Are Markets MoralIJ: In a free enterprise system, do justice and virtue win or loseIJ
The conference sought to deliberate on how capitalism affects morality, the values it elevates and empowers and those it violates, and the values capitalism requires in order to arise and flourish.
Ad film on women
A public service advertisement has been created by alumnus of Whistling Woods International post the gruesome gangrape on December 16, 2013 in Delhi.
Dekh le is a campaign to address the issue of men ogling at women in public, and it has been critically appreciated for driving a strong message asking those who openly stare at women’s bodies to think twice before they do so again.
Tie-up with Applane
The joint venture of the Jaipurias with the DPS Society was a well thought out deliberation to bring in new insight into several aspects of learning and returning it to the community simultaneously. Continuing with this legacy under the patronage of Devyani Jaipuria, DPS International Edge, an upcoming school that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum, ties up with Applane, a cloud-based software for its ERP requirements.
Applane aims at helping students; teachers and parents get a better insight of technology with “cloud”. The solution takes care of time-consuming tasks and assists in intensive activities through seamless automation. The applane software is running in many schools like KR Mangalam, Army Public School, DAV Public School, Nehru World School, Ghaziabad and the Monfort School Delhi.
The strategic tie-up is the result of an increasing demand for ERP solutions to simplify work and increase efficiency of the users. Applane, through its cloud-based software will include education aspects like, assessment & evaluation, student attendance, academic structure, etc.
School choice campaign
School Choice Campaign, the flagship programme of Delhi-based think tank, Centre for Civil Society, organised the 5th Annual School Choice National Conference (SCNC) on the theme Education 2025: Student First at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Over 100 leading educationists and policy experts participated in the day-long conference, deliberating on the education systemand the innovation and planning needed to reach Vision 2025 where the students are at the centre of the education system.
The campaign aims to move the education system towards a school choice model that brings affordable and quality education of choice to all children.
The theme provided a critical platform to set the ball rolling on policy reform and finding innovative policy solutions to problems faced by the sector today, as well as highlighting some of the best practices and pedagogical innovations educators across the world are adopting that would help us achieve the vision of education by 2025.
PTU & UCSC sign mou
Punjab Technical University (PTU) has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) for setting up an Institute of Excellenceat Chandigarh. The MoU was signed by Dr Rajneesh Arora, VC, PTU and Dr George R Blumenthal, chancellor, UCSC.
According to Dr Blumenthal academic ideas should have no boundaries. “The objective is to create a world class technical education institution to support advancement of aspirations of people of Punjab and India. This is in accordance with UCSC’s strategy to expand its role in education and research outside US.”
UCSC will also cooperate in remote live video instructions by its faculty as and when required.
Skill Development model introduced
S Ramadorai, chairman NSDA and NSDC, along with Ram Subbu MP of Tirunelveli inaugurated the constituency model of skills development at Tamil Nadu.
The constituency model synergises the ability and reach of elected leaders of the community to inspire youth, along with the NSDC partners, to provide world class skilling opportunities in distant districts of the country. The independent assessment and certificate at the end of the programme, enhances the employment opportunities of the youth, by aligning their skills to needs of the industry.
Inaugurating the skills development model Ramadorai said: “Techn
ology in the form of computers, mobiles and television, has greatly enhanced the awareness and aspirations of youth in all parts of the country. Indeed India is in the midst of a revolution of aspirations. The Government of India has embarked on the world's largest human resources development initiative and we look forward to making India a highly skilled, inclusive and progressive nation.”
New certificate course
EduPristine, the largest training provider for financial courses, introduced Big Data and Hadoop Programme — a certification course. The 100 hours comprehensive training program includes classroom, webinar, online and live projects.
The course provides an in-depth understanding of analysing unstructured big data to draw important predictions for businesses. The course is available in online and offline versions.
It is estimated that the Indian big data market to grow from $200 million in 2012 to $1 billion in 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of over 83 per cent.
There are multiple factors driving the demand for Big Data in India. The emergence of converged devices, as well as rapid digitization of data and information, especially in the government sector is leading to a much larger quantum of data being generated.
There is also immense demand from analytics players who want to get meaningful insights from their huge volumes of data which is leading to increased number of professionals inculcating skills required in their profession.