certificate programme
FORE School of Management recently launched its certificate programme in Big Data & Data Analytics (marketing specialisation). The programme will be developed and conducted with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) Extension, California, US.
This is the first time that UCR has collaborated with an Indian institute. These students will also get an opportunity to gain valuable work experience in the US through the Optional Practical Training.
Students will need to complete the 120 hour programme at FORE School besides the Capstone Project through a 30 hour programme at UCR extension. Credits earned in the 120 hours programme are transferable to FORE School’s integrated working manager’s group course leading to PGDM (part-time).
Course in healthcare
The Indian School of Business (ISB), with campuses in Mohali and Hyderabad, is all set to launch a one-of-its-kind Healthcare Management Programme, to groom doctors and healthcare professionals to deliver excellence in healthcare management and to enable them to move into leadership positions and drive the growth of the sector.
The one year part-time course, which will commence in January 2016, has been designed and developed by the Max Institute of Healthcare Management and the Centre for Executive Education at the ISB.
jewellery-making techniques
The Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD) organised a four-day long enamel jewellery making workshop for its students at its campus. The workshop was conducted by renowned artist and jeweller Veenu Shah who has experience of about 50 years in the field. Veenu, who has been running an NGO, The Enamellist Society since the year 2000, was thrilled to teach the reinvented modern techniques of enameling to the budding designers of IIAD.
Speaking at the workshop, the dean, Professor Usha Nehru Patel said: “This inspiring workshop explored the skills and techniques of kiln enameling. Students learnt to explore the exciting process of fusing finely powdered glass onto the surface of copper. These beautiful techniques were used by the ancient Chinese, Greeks, Celts and Egyptians to decorate metal and add color to metal jewellery”.
india inspires creativity at manav sthali
The Manav Sthali family recently held its annual event — India Inspires Creativity — at the school premises. The show, a true display of the vision, inspiration, hard work, dedication, focus, passion, was a commendable display of teamwork by the staff and students.
The event has been a long cherished vision of Dr VK Bhatnagar, founder-chairman, Manav Sthali Organisation. And the students of the school have given it a shape under the guidance of Manav Sthali School, director-founder principal, Mamta V Bhatnagar.
Dr Bhatnagar inaugurated the function by lighting the ceremonial lamp. After the lamp lighting a cultural programme depicting the rich culture and heritage of India was presented by the students of the school.
The school ground was buzzing with several stalls, which featured creations by students as well as working models on various subjects like science, robotics and computer science.
4 courses at IMI-New Delhi
International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, opens admissions to its four courses: PG diploma in management (PGDM, PG diploma in human resource management (PGDM-HRM), PG diploma in banking and financial services (PGD-B&FS) and executive PG diploma in management (EXPGDM). The last date to fill the form for these courses is December 5, 2015. For those seeking admission to EXPGDM, the last date is February 12, 2016.
Three of these courses PGDM, PGDM (HRM) and PGDM (B&FS) — are two-year programmes. The executive programme is a 15-month programme that’s been aimed at the middle level managers with a minimum of five years of work experience (post qualification).
The application form is available athttp://admission.imi.edu and the institute only accepts online forms.
workshop on computer skill development
The computer science department of KIIT College of Engineering, Gurgaon conducted a workshop on Developing Computer Skills and Problem Solving Skills using C Programming on for BTech students.
The first session of the workshop on developing computer skills was conducted by Subodh Kumar (ethical expert) and Jaideep Bist (alumni) on developing computer skills to provided knowledge about the list of tricks to handle virus, how to run android apps on windows, various shortcuts and virus coding in notepad.
The second session of the workshop was conducted by Sudhir Kumar Sharma. He explained the importance of algorithm for solving computational problem. He explained the concept of structured C programming.
Dr Sharma demonstrated how to draw the basic building blocks of computer graphics like line, circle, rectangle, ellipse, arch and sector using C programming.
The practical session was conducted by Santha Devi and Shilpa Bahl.