App for medical students
Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences has launched a cloud mobile app for Android aimed at providing the extra edge to medical students appearing for various competitive exams. The app is first and only one in this space. Features included worksheets based on latest updates, and high yielding points for students.
E-book format material including visuals which are important in current exam format, which students are able to access on better resolution as compared to print version. Video sharing gives students the ability to study at his pace for difficult sessions and test papers.
Mou Signed
KIIT Group of colleges signed an MoU with a Reliance JIO Infocomm limited for collaboration on various skill development programmes. The important objective includes joint research activities within specific field of study, development of professional programmes and conduction of joint projects.
The goal of this association is to provide strategic globally relevant education to students, faculty and to reach a large community. The initiative involves setting up of training centre in KIIT campus imparting skills in as many areas necessary for covering the entire spectrum of services of Reliance JIO Infocom. The courses will be offered for 67 disciplines including telecom, mobility, optical fibre, splicing techniques and practices.
NEW SPIN TO EDUCATION
Purple Squirrel Eduventures, a Mumbai based startup provides an industry-based, experiential learning programme for students enabling them to make informed career choices. They create programmes for colleges, wherein students are allowed to visit and interact with both entrepreneurial and big-player companies representing their spread of career diversity.
These visits are specifically tailored keeping in mind student profiles and industry expectations. The company which was incorporated in 2013, has been incubated by SINE, IIT Bombay has already delivered 5000-plus unique experiences in experiential learning, associating with 350-plus campuses and corporates, across 12-plus destinations within 1 year of its operations.
Workshop On Six Sigma Green Belt
Jaipuria School of Business, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, recently conducted a four-day workshop on Six Sigma Green Belt Programme for the management students of first and second year, along with the support of KPMG.
The training equips them with a logical and objective way to identify, measure, and eliminate the problems within the organisation. Six Sigma is a breakthrough management strategy meant for driving process improvements in the delivery of goods and services. It provides business with the tools and technology to improve the capability of the business processes.
Speaking at the workshop, Dr S Durgaaprosad, director, Jaipuria School of Business, Indirapuram, said: “The programme will guarantee a wealth of possibilities for successful improvement of projects, tied to increase revenue.”
Scindia School hosts Model United Nations
Over 85 students from six prestigious schools across India participated in the Model United Nations that was recently organised by The Scindia School, Gwalior. The three-day event, —The Scindia School Model United Nations — gave the young participants a taste of diplomacy, international relations, public negotiations, and the working of the UN.
The participating schools included Ryan International School (New Delhi) and Maharani Gayatri Devi School (Jaipur), along with many schools from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Speaking at the event, Samik Ghosh, principal, The Scindia School, said: “We treat students as future leaders of the world. The model UN was organised to give them a global outlook and boost their critical thinking, teamwork and leadership abilities. It provided them a platform to display skills in diplomacy, public negotiations, logic and research. The students researched world policy, brainstormed global problems and came up with unique solutions. We are extremely happy with their performance as they demonstrated a strong will to change the world.”
Inspired leadership Conference
The School of Inspired leadership (SOIl) hosted the 6th edition Inspired leadership Conference in Gurgaon recently. The conference was dedicated in the memory of Dr V Kurien. Thinkers, business leaders and entrepreneurs such as Harsh Mariwala, chairman, Marico Industries; RS Sodhi, MD, GCMMF (Amul) ltd Anand; Naveen Narayanan, global head talent acquisition, HCl Technologies; Rachna Mukherjee, country partner, VP HR, Schneider Electric, participated in the conference.
The two-day event saw enriching discussions and deliberations on the thought provoking idea of leveraging goodness to create disruptive innovation. Speaking at the event, Mariwala said: “Goodness works at two levels: One is corporate and the other is at personal level. On a personal level, if each person discovers a strong purpose of life, they give back something to the society. For corporates, if the stakeholders do good for their employees, it will reflect in better motivation. Innovation, on the other hand, is on top of the agenda of all.”