guidance mobile app
Shiksha has unveiled its Ask & Answer mobile app. With 1,000+ experts, it is a one of its kind app through which higher education aspirants can get personalised guidance on queries ranging from career and course options to entrance exam preparation, stream selection and college admission
The diversity of experts is across various career and education streams including Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Management, Science and 16 other categories.
Answers will be given by the best in India’s largest education community, including academicians, students and alumni from premier colleges, entrance exam toppers, experienced professionals and many others.
IT health programmes
The International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) Bangalore has signed an MoU with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Asia Pacific India Society to offer seven-day certification course for healthcare professionals (one programme for clinicians and One for IT professionals in the hospital ) and a three-month certification programme in Health IT for healthcare professionals.
Rajendra Pratap Gupta, chairman, HIMSS Asia Pacific India Society said, “Given the importance of technology in the emerging healthcare delivery, we feel that it is timely to initiate a program on Health Information Technology for medical professionals and hence the tie up with IIHMR, Bangalore.”
Mou for research
The KIIT College Gurgaon India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with lynchburg College Virginia USA to strengthen research and development activities between the educational institutes.
“The agreement seeks to promote quality education and boost research culture amongst students of respective country by conceivable academic, cultural, extracurricular and other collaborative projects/assignments,” said BR Kamrah, chairman, KIIT College Gurgaon.
As a result some students from KIIT will visit lynchburg college for their research projects in the next academic session. The research projects will be carried out in areas such as, engineering, business and education.
culinary arts at symbiosis
Symbiosis International University (SIU) announces the establishment of the Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts (SSCA) which offers a three-year, full-time B.SC programme in Culinary Arts. Celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor, chair professor, Culinary Arts, SSCA will mentor the students.
Besides a thorough introduction to both global and Indian cuisine, students will be introduced to other elements of the industry like finance, nutrition and sanitation. The inputs will be both theoretical and practical with live work stations in fully equipped laboratories.
This degree will prepare students for a wide range of career options such as chefs, chef managers, food critics, food photographers, entrepreneurs, concept developers for health foods, sommelier, culinary advisors and so on.
Modern concepts like sous vide cooking and molecular gastronomy will be part of the programme.
Monitored internship will introduce the students to on-the–job situations. Experts from the industry will network and interact with the students on campus.
Ed-tech pushing coaching centres’ growth
Some coaching centres have gone the extra mile by joining hands with some ed-tech companies specialising in online testing and assessment. Consequently, their students’ results have seen an appreciable improvement. TCYonline is one such company which has made a name for itself pan-India and is helping coaching centres boost their profits through enhanced student enrolments.
Be it a Combined Admission Test (CAT) for IIMs, Railways, Banking or PTE, an online help is available to the students. Specially designed program for coaching centres is a boon for those situated in small towns and cities. The company attracts the largest chunk of test-takers preparing for various competitive exams in India.
Recently, the company has also launched a mobile app called My Coach through which a coaching centre student can attempt his tests online, anytime anywhere.
An analytical report generated following the test helps him benchmark his performance with similar kind of students preparing for that particular exam sitting in other part of the country.
New digital courses
Coursera, the world’s largest open online education provider, recently announced the launch of project-based courses on topics from persuasive writing to computer construction.
In a project-based course, one can master content efficiently by applying his knowledge and the concepts he has learnt to a real-world project as he learns and he will receive guidance from instructors and peers along the way, and finish the course with a completed project to be used and shared.
Project-based learning is becoming popular as they provide career-oriented students a way to learn skills they can prove in the job market. These courses feature capstone projects which the students can incorporate into portfolios for their job searches once they are done with the course.
Some of the courses are: Creating a Resume, SUNY Buffalo University; Create Your Own Website in One Week, SUNY Stonybrook University; Writing Professional Emails and Memos, Kennesaw State University; Write a TV or web series pilot episode, Michigan State University.