PGPX programme launched
In partnership with Northwest Executive Education, the UClA Anderson Graduate School of Management has launched its Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) in India. The one-year programme is focused on applied learning of MBA essentials for Senior Executives and Business Owners. The flexible programme schedule will allow busy professionals to work alongside. A week of classroom learning and live online sessions is conducted every month. PGPX offers executives the opportunity to bridge skills gap, hone their leadership abilities and achieve remarkable career growth.
National HR conference
The lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi, successfully conducted a National HR conference on ‘Developing Human Capital for Business Excellence’. While inaugurating the summit Rajeev Dubey, HR Head of Mahindra and Mahindra and the chief guest for this event said: “The need to highlight the importance of creating leaders of tomorrow, who can ensure inclusive and sustainable development.”
Anil Shastri, former Union Minister and Chairman, Board of Governors, lBSIM said that “If India has to progress in a cooperative manner, the competency and skills of its large human resources have to be developed on a priority basis.” A special session was held on “Reforms in the labour laws”.
Student Global Aptitude Index
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is gearing up for the Fifth Edition of Student Global Aptitude Index (SGAI) which will be held in November 2014 for the students of Class X in schools affiliated with the Board across the globe. The last date for the registration is October 15, 2014.
Schools may register through online list of Candidates (lOC) by October 15, 2014 and deposit the fee Rs 100 per student at concerned regional offices. Communi-cation with regard to the modalities of SGAI November 2014 will be further made with participating schools. For more details, log on to www.cbse.nic.in.
SGAI aims at initiating a dialogue on academic choices among various stakeholders like parents, teachers and students that may lead to effective career planning later in life.
Unicom’s technology olympiad 2014
Over 500 companies from across India participated in the Tech-Olympiad organised by UNICOM learning, a knowledge sharing forum in partnership with IBM in Bangalore. Companies like Cisco, Siemens, HP, KPMG, DEll, Titan, GE Health Care and many more participated in the Olympiad and the selected teams represented their companies in the finals held on September 25.
Sachin Malik and Nishant Pundir from Dronacharya College of Engineering, New Delhi emerged as the winner at the students technology olympiad. Harsh Kumar and Arun B from GE Healthcare Bangalore were announced as winners of the technology olympiad for professionals.
Discussing the importance of such contests Nitesh Naveen, co-founder, director & CEO of Unicom said:“Such events develop interest in emerging technologies among young professionals and provide excellent networking opportunities and encourage students for further education in this field.”
Ryan International Group of Institutions honoured
The Ryan International Group of Institutions was honoured with six awards at the Education World 2014 Awards held recently in the Capital. The Ryan Global School, Mumbai was awarded for being ranked in Top 10 in the best international school category while Ryan International Schools at Jaipur, Surat, Shahjahanpur, ludhiana and Nasik were felicitated for being among the best schools in their respective cities. The awards were received by the CEO Ryan Pinto and director Snehal Pinto. “37 schools of our group being ranked in the country reflect the commitment of our stakeholders to offer quality education to our children. In the coming years we intend to relentlessly work to better our pedagogical practices and process to enable our students become lifelong learners,” Ryan Pinto said.
Discovery kids and wwf india host wisdom quiz
The Wild Wisdom Quiz in its seventh year reached out to over 15,000 schools and saw enthusiastic participation from over 13,000 students across 30 cities in the country. Organised by WWF-India in association with Discovery Kids, this year the quiz introduced new categories — a Junior level Quiz (for classes3 to5), a High School Online Quiz (for classes 9 to 12), in addition to the Middle level quiz (Classes 6 to 8).
The National Finals were conducted for the Middle School level at the WWF-India auditorium in New Delhi recently. This year’s Wild Wisdom Quiz was won by Aaron Dev Jose and Pooja Bijoy of l’ecole Chemnaka School, Trivandrum, followed by Jeevesh C and Vignesh SK of Vidya Niketan School, Chennai and Arnav Gupta and Aniket Mishra of Arwachin International School, Delhi in second and third position respectively.
The WWF-India partnered with Discovery Kids to host the quiz, which will be aired on the Discovery Kids channel in November. The Quiz is supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE).