Faculty programme at kiit
KIIT Group of Colleges organised a full-day faculty development programme at its campus. Many faculty members which gave away their views on different issues in the present world. Some of the speakers were SS Aggarwal, M Sengupta, RK Jain, Dr Anshu Radha Aggarwal and MM Pant (former pro-vice chancellor IGNOU. The main issues for the discussions were outcome-based education model and continuous improvement, action research in higher education, teaching skills in 21st century, self-esteem and role of research in education.
IMI Ties Up With Global varsity
International Management Institute (IMI) has entered into an agreement with JAMK University of Applied Sciences, located in Jyvaskyla, Finland, one of the top 500 universities in QS World University Rankings. The objective is to promote and facilitate the exchange of students, faculty and researchers, wherein both universities will benefit by sharing and participating in each other’s exchange programmes. Dr Bakul Dholakia, DG IMI said: “The programme will foster globalisation and internationalisation of the universities and promote diverse, multicultural and meaningful educational experiences for the students. The exposure will increases understanding of other people in other settings, maturity, risk-taking, etc.”
Seneca signs mou
With more than 290 programs and 500 career options, Seneca provides boundless opportunities for Indian students. The college seeks to expand its international reach through strategic partnerships in India. Seneca College president David Agnew visited Delhi to explore and develop partnerships with institutions that share similar aspirations. While in Delhi, Agnew met with several stakeholders, including Entrepreneurship and Management Processes International and signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Agnew said: “The MoU focuses on a joint post-graduate programme in social media and business aimed at providing mobility for qualified MBA/PGD students to specialise.”
International conference
Azim Premji University hosted its third International conference on law, Public Policy and Governance recently at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru. The theme for this year’s conference was Institutions, Public Policy & State Capacity: A Sub-National Approach to Governance in India. The conference brings together new and original research on various issues employing rigorous comparative sub-national research to develop new insight and understanding into India’s governance and policy challenges.
This conference brings together highly regarded academics from across the world like including Anuradha Joshi (University of Sussex), Ashutosh Varshney (Sol Goldman Prof, Brown University), Chiranjib Sen (Azim Premji University), etc.
FORTUNATE 40 to help underprivileged
FIITJEE, will conduct a nation-wide exam on February 8, 2015 to select 40 underprivileged but highly meritorious students who will be groomed and tutored for free by the institution for entrance to India’s most reputed engineering colleges.The Fortunate 40 exam will be held across designated test centres in India for all students who aspire to make it to IIT-JEE in the year 2019 and 2017 respectively. The selected 40, who show potential for doing well in the field, will be taken by FIITJEE.This programme will select and financially support those capable students presently studying in Class VIII (going to IX) and Class X (going to XI) whose total parental income is below `10, 000 per month. FIITJEE will support these students in their preparation for achieving their goal by awarding 100 per cent scholarships for FIITJEE. The last date to apply for test is February 1, 2015 and there will be no registration fee for this selection test. To be eligible, students have to clear the individual subject cut-offs and also the grand total cut-off.
SPECIAl DISCOUNT FOR NE AND J&K STUDENTS
A special concession amounting to 10 per cent waiver in the tuition fee is extended to the students of J&K, Sikkim and seven North-eastern States — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura who join the programme in academic year 2015-16. This special concession is over and above any other scholarship being given to the student. Prof Jitendra K Das, director, Fore School of Management said: “Although we have students from different States, the North-East and J&K are still under represented perhaps, due to a variety of local socio-economic conditions, students face hurdles in accessing professional institutions of repute located in different parts of India.”
There is a huge opportunity for the youth of these regions. Academic performance, beyond a point, is not a predictor of success. Qualities like resilience, tolerance, handling ambiguity, etc are what organisations look for in their selection process. Opportunities that are expected in these regions, combined with trained managers are where Fore wishes to contribute.