Appreciation for ryan
Fifteen teachers, including the principal and VP of Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj, received letters of appreciation from the Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani for the stellar performance of their Class XII students.
All the recipient were felicitated at a special assembly. The team expressed its gratitude to founder chairman, Ryan International Group of Institutions, Dr Augustine Francis Pinto, and MD, Grace Pinto, for their guidance and support.
Development Solutions
The South Asia Regional Network of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) was launched in Delhi recently. It is a unique global collaboration to mobilise expertise and experience from academia, civil society and the private sector to help find solutions for some of the world’s most pressing and interconnected environmental, social, and economic challenges.
The mission is to accelerate practical problem solving for sustainable development at local, national and global scales. TERI University (India) and BRAC University (Bangladesh) are Regional SDSN centers for South Asia.
IET Scholarships
The IET Scholarship Award 2014 has received an overwhelming response from engineering students across India with over 3,677 applicants applying for the prestigious award which carries an annual grant and a combined prize of Rs 8 lakh. The award has been established by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), India.
Based on the eligibility criteria, about 860 engineering students were shortlisted for the preliminary online test. From these, 168 students are now ready to compete in the regional rounds scheduled for July, 2014.
The scholarship, which is in its second year now, aims at underlining the organisation’s commitment towards strengthening India’s engineering ecosystem.
New MBA programme at mdis
The Management Development Institute Singapore (MDIS) has launched a 12-month comprehensive MBA programme in Banking & Finance in association with Bangor University. Bangor University is UK’s No 1 university in Accounting and Finance Research, ranked by the UK Government Research Assessment Exercise and is among the top 15 universities across the globe in the Banking and Finance sector. It is famous for churning out celebrities, including Danny Boyle and highly placed officials in UK Government.
The MBA programme is planned for aspirants who want to pursue career in global banking and finance. The prominence throughout the programme is on the application of contemporary, financial, managerial and strategic developments that affect real world decision making in the global financial industry.
The first session of the two programmes starts in October 2014. The course fees for the entire curriculum is approximately Rs 10.68 lakh. For further details, please log on to: www.mdis.edu.sg.
CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
The Sonipat-based Jindal School of liberal Arts and Humanities and the US-based Claremont McKenna College jointly organised a conference on enhancing higher education opportunities for high school graduates, promoting global excellence and international education in India.
Educationists, professors, principals and industry representatives participated in the two-day meet held on the OP Jindal Global University campus on June 28-29, 2014. The conference discussed the multiple dimensions and identified the factors which influence higher education.
The conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Gudmundur Eiriksson, Ambassador of Iceland to India. The significance of global excellence and international pedagogy in higher education was the key ingredient of the conference.
WORlD’S FIRST GlOBAl STANDARD for ENGlISH
Pearson unveils the Global Scale of English (GSE) — the world’s first truly global standard for scoring English language proficiency. In development for 25 years and tested on over 10,000 students in 130 countries, the GSE will transform how English is assessed, taught and scored.
Developed by Pearson English, it aims to provide one precise, numeric, universal scale for businesses, governments and academic institutions, as well as for people estimated to be learning English worldwide.
Speaking at the launch, Bhavneet Singh, president of Pearson English said: “The world needs all its diversity of voices, cultures and languages, but with more of us talking to each other than ever before, the world is choosing to communicate in English. That is why there is need for a global standard of English. We have been working with businesses, institutions and learners in and they have told us that there is a need for a granular, numeric, universal scale and we believe after 25 years of work with leading academics we have it in GSE English.”