Merit Test
The Institute of Management Studies, Noida, recently organised a merit test for students. More than 600 students from Delhi NCR took the test on April 24, at the institute and the top scorers were promised a scholarship up to five per cent.
The IMS Noida president Rajiv Gupta congratulated the achievers and said: “It’s a pleasure for us to be a part of this initiative and help potential candidates financially.” Dr KJS Anand, executive director, said that the institute was tuned to meet the expectations of the new generation. The test is divided into written and viva sections of 75% and 25% marks, respectively. Students qualify for viva on attaining 60% in the written examination.
Grad Film Fest
The Annapurna International School of Film & Media (AISFM) celebrated their Graduation Film Fest, 2016, where their final-year BFA and MA students showcased their skills with short films that they made as part of their graduation films. Eight short films were screened (of about 20 to 30 minutes duration) during the film festival.
Speaking at the event, Telugu film personality lakshmi Manchu said, “It’s always inspiring to see new visions and it is very important to see new ideas come forth. A lot of hard work goes into cinema and here success happens in 10 years. Nothing is more beautiful than cinema to define yourself. What is the story which is compelling enough to tellIJ Identify that and keep your passion, drive and love for cinema alive.”
New Gate Series
Pearson India has launched the new ‘Crack the GATE’ series of books for aspirants of 2017 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination.
The new exhaustive preparatory series has been prepared by a consortium of highly-experienced faculties engaged in training GATE candidates. The series has four separate books: Computer Science and Information Technology 2017; Electrical Engineering 2017; Electronics and Communication Engineering 2017; Mechanical Engineering 2017.
These books are divided into three parts — General Aptitude, Engineering Mathematics and Technical Section (Computer Science and Information Technology/ Electronics and Communic-ation/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering).
Retired Iaf Personnel Placed
Skill India recently conducted it’s first ever placement ceremony for retiring Indian Air Force personnel through skill certification and announced initiatives under the partnership between Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
As part of the pilot project, 56 retiring Air Force Personnel were mobilised to undergo training programmes post mapping of their trades to national occupational standards. Sector Skill Councils provided them training as trainers and assessors in three sectors — medical, electronics and automotive, which was followed by their assessment and certification. The three pilot institutions identified for these training programmes were Mechanical Transport Training Institute, Electronics Training Institute and Medical Training Centre.
These efforts are in line with the MoU signed between the two Ministries in July 2015 to partner in various skill development initiatives. The MoU seeks to provide additional skills to around 60,000 service personnel who retire every year at a comparatively young age in the ranks of Officer, JCO, NCO or jawaans.
Digital Transformation Venture
The NIIT announced the launch of GNIIT Digital Transformation (DT) — a path-breaking GNIIT programme that equips college students to ride the wave of digital transformation — the process of shifting from traditional approach to new ways of working and thinking using digital, social, mobile and emerging technologies.
The new GNIIT–DT is exclusively available for Cloud and Mobile Software Engineering — Java specialisation and will be offered across all synchronised learning technology.
Speaking on the occasion Prakash Menon, president, careers business, NIIT ltd. said: “Over the years NIIT has trained more than a million non-engineering students for software engineering careers. Today digital transformation skills is the need of the hour in Indian IT industry. Keeping pace with the changing industry requirements, we are upgrading the GNIIT programme by introducing digital transformation. The programme will help groom the non-engineering students aspiring for software engineering careers to achieve their career aspirations”.
Marketing Analytics Courses
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has announced a massive open online course (MOOC) on marketing analytics — how to make sense of and utilise the massive amounts of data available to improve marketing efforts.
Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia said: “Data is everywhere. We know more about consumer action than ever before, but trying to figure out what to do with all this data can be a challenge for people in marketing. This course is about applying analytics as well as understanding the connection between marketing strategy, decision making and analytics. We’ll also explore the possibilities that analytics can offer and provide the tools to help create actionable insights.
Available on-demand, registration is open to anyone with an Internet connection. Participants who successfully complete the course requirements can earn a course certificate from the University of Virginia and Coursera, or students can audit the course for free.