Start-Up School at lPU
Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley recently inaugurated start-up school at lovely Professional University.
He also inaugurated three-day International Day of Peace amid rich cultural diversity of 30,000 lPU students from 29 Indian States and 50-plus countries studying at the campus.
Jaitley unveiled the emblem of World Peace, with globe on one side and pigeon, the symbol of peace, on the other side.
The students presented cultural variety of different Indian states and other nations to uphold the spirit of world peace all around. Before start of the event, two-minute silence was observed to pay homage to brave Indian soldiers martyred early this morning in a terrorist attack in Uri, J&K.
Addressing the students and staff members, Jaitley said: “I wish to see many ‘disrupter’ entrepreneurs from lPU.” He also invoked lPU students to adopt start-ups as this is the right age for them to possibly lead the world.
5th SHRM India Conference
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) India has announced 5th SHRM India Annual Conference & Exposition 2016, to be held on 29-30 September, 2016 in New Delhi. Theme of this year’s conference is Dare-A bold new HR.
It is about pushing yourself to the edge to take the next big leap to experience an overwhelming journey in the field of HR. 70-plus global speakers, 1,000 delegates, 450 companies, 25 knowledge sessions, 60 partners, 150 CHROs and CEOs are expected to participate in the conference.
It will also recognise and felicitate the best practices, path breaking innovations, game changing strategies in HR.
Entrepreneurship Challenge
The IBM and Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad announced the first-of-its kind cognitive tech-based challenge — Cognitive Entrepreneurship Challenge.
The challenge will reach out to students and start-ups across India. Registrations started on September 5, 2016 with various rounds and the finale is expected to happen towards mid-November 2016.
The main objective of CEC is to encourage young entrepreneurs and the student community to build business solutions around capabilities using IBM’s cognitive platform.
Placement Reporting Services
India produces over 17 lakh engineers and 5 lakh MBAs every year. Yet their employability is low. Every student chooses the educational institution with possible job prospects. To meet that demand, Brickwork (BWR) is pleased to introduce Brickwork Placement Reporting Services (BPRS ) for B-schools and engineering institutions.
The BPRS will provide authenticated placement statistics for the B-schools and engineering institutions that indicates employability of graduates.
With the growing importance of career education, the number of B-schools and Engineering Institutions across the country is increasing. Amongst other parameters, B-schools and engineering institutions are recognised by their brand visibility, ability to attract premier recruiters and effective affiliations/tie-ups with domestic and international universities and corporates.
Vivek Kulkarni, IAS (retd), Managing Director, Brickwork Ratings, said: “Adoption of IPRS enhances the credibility of the B-school, enabling aspirants to make informed choices and institutions to attract talent. BWR hopes that many more management institutions will come forward to disclose placement data with increased transparency.”
BWR has its corporate office in Bengaluru and a country-wide presence.
2nd national Convention On Medicine & law
A major step in bridging the lack of dialogue between the doctor community, hospitals, legal professionals, and policy makers was taken at 2nd National Convention on Medicine & law-2016 organised by the Institute of Medicine & law (IMl).
A white paper recommending legal reforms in health care was released today, which will be submitted to policy makers and regulators.
The document exhaustively discusses and highlights several medico-legal issues including the need for a new law recognising declaration or certification of brain stem death as a form of death under Uniform Determination of Death Act, a law to enable doctors to refuse treatment or admission in case of futility of care, to legally recognise living wills/advance directives/DNR instructions among others.
RAMA UNIVERSITY SIGNS MOU WITH IIT-MUMBAI
Rama University Kanpur signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IIT-Mumbai. The goal is to empower each section of the society through education and produce socially committed professionals, providing platform for a wide range of extracurricular and leadership opportunities for students and to organise the vocational training programs and income generation activities for rural youth and school drop out by imparting skills.
Dr Rushen Chahal, vice-chancellor of Rama University said: “ This formal partnership between the two institutions will not only bind mutual respect but is also a gateway of new opportunities for students. The reason to have this strategic partnership with Spoken Tutorial (ST) as knowledge partner is so that the reach, awareness and spread of ST training is smooth and fast reaching the departments, research programs and FDPs. We are partnered with over 80 affiliating universities in India proving how well partnerships can give the required momentum to the programme.”
There will be joined activities between spoken tutorial team and the university to offer courses like C/C++, Java, linux, etc.