New academy
Cians Analytics has announced the launch of a new initiative — Cians Academy which is offering foundation and advanced courses in financial modeling that cover accounting and valuation concepts, excel functions, and the end-to-end industry-wide financial models. The courses are designed for undergraduates, CAs, MBAs, CFAs, and professionals looking to switch to finance. The courses run 30-60 hours over 1-2 weeks.
The first batch will commence on November 17, 2014. To know more about the academy, please log on to http://www.ciansacademy.com/Aboutus.aspx.
Residential programme
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in partnership with the Department of Economic Affairs organised a five-day residential programme. The focus of the course was to train senior officers from the Indian Economic Services cadre on skill development.
With a target of skilling nearly 50 crore youth by 2022, there is an urgent need to create a wider understanding of the skills development ecosystem. The course was designed to stimulate interactions on contemporary issues facing policy makers in designing robust frameworks for implementation.
Seminar on surrogacy
ITM University’s law School organised an international seminar on Surrogacy and Human Rights against the backdrop of India becoming a popular destination for medical tourism and advancements in technology increasing the demand for gestational surrogacy here.
Prof Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor, ITM University, Gurgaon raised the social concerns attached with the surrogate arrangement. He also emphasized on the social acceptance of the surrogate child and the health issues of the surrogate mother.
There were experts from NGOs, doctors, eminent lawyers and distinguished academicians who presented their views on commercial surrogacy including Dr Sonia Malik, IVF, Max, Gurgaon; Dr Rita Bakshi, Green Park Infertility Clinic, New Delhi and Dr Manasi Mishra, Centre for Social Research, New Delhi.
Irish education fair
Education in Ireland invites Indian students to meet with 15 Irish institutes. The four-city fair will showcase the prospects and ROI Irish institutes render to the next generation students from India.
While the fair in Delhi was held on November 15 and in Pune on November 16, it will be held in Chennai on November 22 and Bangalore on November, 23.
There will be discussions by institute experts on a wide array of interesting topics for students such as education excellence, teaching practices, innovative and creative culture, educational institutes-industry linkage through research and business collaborations, which will help the students to take forward informed choices of their career and future path.
Students will also be briefed on qualification recognition, application process, visa process, culture and living in Ireland and tuition fees, etc.
Knowledge Olympiad 2014
AISECT has launched the fourth edition of its national level Knowledge Olympiad. It will be held on November 23, 2014 at over 12,000 AISECT centres spread across the country.
The two-hour test will be based on multiple choice question format covering sections of general knowledge, reasoning ability, general science, numerical ability and computer knowledge. Winners from each category will be awarded attractive prizes like tablets, smartphones, eduvantage content etc. Besides this, every participating student would be awarded with a participation certificate.
Students will be divided into three categories: Group 1 students from Class VI-VIII; Group 2 with students from Class IX-XII; Group 3 with UG/PG students. The charges to appear for the test are `80. The last day to register is November 20, 2014.
Students are required to fill forms either through the AISECT website www.aisect.org or visit their nearest centre for completing the registration formalities.
Teaching awards
Pearson India recently announced the launch of 3rd Edition of Pearson Teaching Awards, opening the nomination process for teachers to participate. This year the awards include 16 award categories to cover educators from both private and Government institutions. Ten of these categories are from school-level for excellence in teaching any official Indian language, art forms, mathematics, science and social studies, four categories at higher education for innovation in teaching under-graduate and post-graduate students and two common categories for teaching excellence in sports, outstanding contribution to special learners and teacher of the year.
The award entry submissions are open till December 1, 2014. Teachers can log on to http://pearsonteachingawards.in and upload their entries. Deepak Mehrotra, MD, Pearson India said: “It is an honour to recognise the leading educators who are playing a significant role in the holistic development of students. The first two editions received great response from the teaching community. For this edition, we look forward to even greater participation.”