Convocation at XlRI
The 59th annual convocation was celebrated at XlRI-Xavier School of Management recently at its campus. Students received their medals and certificates in the presence of TV Narendran, chairman, Board of Governors at XlRI & MD, Tata Steel India and South East Asia, Fr E Abraham SJ, director of XlRI, Dr Pranabesh Ray, Dean, Academics at XlRI and other dignitaries. Congratulating the students Narendran said: “There will be tough decisions to make. Remember, that no matter what be the outcome, you will need to choose the righteous path.”
Inter college fest at ASU
A three-day inter college festival — Elaan — dedicated to the holistic development of the students came to a close at Apeejay Stya University (ASU) campus. Participants from 18 educational institutions across Delhi-NCR took part in the festival through different competitions and there were approximately 1000 entries. The entire event was organised and managed by the students of ASU, in consultation with the faculty members.
On day-one, the focus was on athletics and sports. Day-two had two major events: Drones and cloud computing. There were 22 different segments on that day where more than 100 students exhibited their technology prowess.
National integration camp
KIIT Group of Colleges organised a five-day national integration and peace youth camp at its campus. Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana inaugurated it. Around 250 youth’s from18 states participated from all over India. The programme began with the enlightening of the traditional lamp by the Governor followed by a welcome song and a colorful cultural programme by students depicting the unity and oneness.
Speaking at the event Singh said: “National integration camps are held to promote the sense of unity in diversity among the youth of the nation by bringing them together irrespective of regions and religion. He said these camps play significant role in promoting integration and unity and help youth get acquainted with customs, traditions and languages of their counterparts.”
Call to action competition
The shift series, a revolutionary new platform for people to share ideas, inventions and their personal journeys which hosts conferences across the globe to make a shift in thinking invites students of Classes IX-XII to put together an action plan outlining a ‘way out’ for an existing problem in their neighbourhood.
Multiple entries can be submitted by a school where in the students are either working individually or as a group. The deadline for submitting the action plan is April 15, 2015. The winning proposals will be given cash prizes and felicitated at a youth conference on May 2, 2015 at the Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi.
The series endeavours to empower the next generation of concerned world citizens by giving them opportunities to interact and discuss matters of importance in their community. Those interested in taking part can visit www.theshiftseries.com for more information.
New course on offer
The One School Goa has announced that starting in September 2015, they will offer students the county’s first three-year degree programme in photography and multimedia. The course offered by covers both theory and hands on training. The course is designed to accommodate changing dynamics of the industry.
In addition to the above, the school is also offering another new course to their existing curriculum — foundation in visual communication. The year-long course is designed to introduce students to various forms of visual communication. The rigorous course will provide students with hands-on training from different faculty members who specialise in each of the disciplines the course covers.
Through this course students will get the opportunity to develop their creative portfolios. For more information about the new courses being offered by the schools please visit www.theoneschoolgoa.com.
TERI signs MoU with CAPS
The TERI University, which offers Masters and Doctoral programmes related to sustainable development, and the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), which focuses on research and analysis in areas related to national security, defence and aerospace, have entered into a collaborative arrangement.
Through this memorandum of understanding (MoU) serving officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF) would be admitted to the doctoral programme at the TERI University in research areas related to politics and governance, energy security, resource management, economics, statistics and social science analysis. They would be jointly supervised by faculty members of the university and of the Centre for Air Power Studies.
Speaking at the ocassion, Dr Rajiv Seth, acting vice-chancellor, TERI University, said: “Through this arrangement, we will be able to build capacity in the country in the nexus between issues of national security and sustainable development. Serving Air Force officers will do doctoral level research under the guidance of experts in both these strategic areas”.