Regional Employment centre
For essential connect and hand holding between the industry and qualified job seeking graduates, Rama University, Kanpur, has set up a Regional Nodal Employment Centre for graduate students of Uttar Pradesh (UP).
This centre will function in faculty of engineering. Degree and diploma graduates are invited to walk in and fill up their application forms.
This student’s database will be available online and all updates will be sent to companies and employment seekers from time to time so that every information regarding the placements can be easily shared. The NEC holding job fairs where multiple companies will be called to take students’ interviews and placement.
New short-term courses
The Delhi School of Communication (DSC) has launched six new short-term courses for the aspiring scriptwriters, production assistants, account executives, account directors, sales executives and sales directors.
Prof Ramola Kumar, the dean of DSC also announced that DSC is now officially an affiliated partner of Media and Entertainment Skill Council of India (MESC). Earlier DSC had been offering an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) programme for post graduate studies. Besides the latest additions, DSC also delivers short-term certificate programmes in advertising and media, public relations, event management, marketing and sales, and grooming and personality development. DSC has also been successfully organising workshops in key growth areas for corporates, to meet dynamic competitive challenges of the current day.
Skilling India
The ITM Group of Institution has collaborated with Kotak Education Fund (KEF) which supports children and youth from underprivileged families through different education based interventions so as to empower them and provide employable skills. Some of the sectors in which the scholarships will be offered are BSc Nursing, Optometry, Hotel Management and Fashion Designing. To catalyse sustainable economic growth that can deliver equitable development for all, ITM has taken this initiative to provide the students of KEF with a fully funded scholarship for undergraduate courses at its campuses in Mumbai, Baroda and Raipur.
Education conference
The Confederation of Education Excellence (CEE), in association with ECONS, is going to organise a seminar on “Quality of Education” on “Indian Philosophical Foundation for Modern Education” followed by an award function on September 3, 2016 at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Rohini, New Delhi.
For the fifth time, the CEE is organising the National Education Summit 2016 with an aim of sharing views and important issues to enhance the quality in education.
This time Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia has confirmed his presence to be the chief guest of the event along with other high profile dignitaries like Dr Raj Singh, vice-chancellor,
Rayat Bahra University,
Prof Dr Abhimanyu Kumar, director, All India Institute of Ayurveda; Prof Dr VN Rajasekharan Pillai, ex chairman, University Grants Commission, and director academics CEE, Prof KS Dhiman, director general central council for research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Ministry of Ayush Government of India.
limited seats are available for the participants to be filled as nominee or delegate.
Interested people to nominate for themselves can visit at www.cee-india.org for the details.
The last date of registration is August 27, 2016.
National Abacus competition
The CBS Education Pvt. ltd, a franchisee of Universal Concepts of Mental Arithmetic Systems (UCMAS), is participating in 15th UCMAS National level Abacus competition which will take place at Jaipur from August 27 and 28, 2016.
Around 5600 students within the age group of 6 to 14 years across India from various UCMAS institutes will be participating, out of which 410 students will be from the state of Maharashtra. These national level competitions are held annually from the last 15 years. Participants will be solving 200 mathematical sums in just eight minutes with amazing speed using abacus as well as their mental abilities.
“The main objective behind organising this competition is to find abacus genius from India and to develop a healthy competitive spirit among the children while giving them an opportunity and platform to showcase their talent at a national level,” CD Mishra, one of the directors of CBS Education Pvt. ltd, said.
Book launch
The Manav Rachna International School (MRIS), Charmwood, launched 12 budding authors from its school at a recently held book launch event. Tom Alter, padma shree and a renowned stage and film actor was the chief guest at the book launch while Dr Amit Bhalla, VP, MREI, graced the special occasion as Guest of Honour. Titled as Vivid, a compilation of 12 stories in which the budding authors have captured their original and unique ideas and experiences creatively.
The authors of the book comprising Ankit Jha, Anna Steger, Diksha Dawar, Himal Bhat, Hiren Gupta, Moksha Mishra, Naysha Jain, P Srinath Saatvik, Rishika Kharbanda, Rithvick Rao, Syed Anser, Zsofia Steger has a vibrant mix of stories like Boat No. 6754, Semblance of Truth, Midnight Magic, The Crisis of Fifty, Everything for Something and the like.