CAREERCATURE
by Sandeep Joshi |
When I said get a person of high status,
I didn’t mean this.
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Home
science offers myriad options
Although home science is a
conventional stream, it is suddenly finding an increasing number of
takers, writes Shveta Pathak
WHAT
if you get a career option that gives you opportunities in India as well
as overseas? It would make your family happy too for it will provide you
with skill sets required to manage your home efficiently. Although
home science is a conventional stream, it is suddenly finding an
increasing number of takers.
Hydrography
— a gainful career
Trilochan Singh Trewn
Hydrography
is the science of measurement of sea, lakes, rivers alongwith
description of nature of their beds including indicating them
graphically on charts.Thus hydrography is in fact practice of marine
survey. Hydrography is different
from oceanography.
IN FOCUS
Animal care an
attractive vocation
Sunit Dhawan
College
of Veterinary Sciences, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, was
established in 1882 in Lahore as a veterinary school. After the
Partition, with the help of the faculty of Lahore Veterinary College who
had migrated to India, the then Punjab Government set up a Camp
Veterinary College at Hisar in February 1948. The college was affiliated
to the erstwhile Punjab University, Solan.
BITS AND BYTES
Animation,
games design courses in offing
THE
CEO of SAE, a foreign media education college, Rathish Babu has
announced the commencement of a new and exclusive programme in
India. SAE, which at present runs diploma and degree programmes of
Middlesex University, London, has got approval for its proposal for
setting up Indian university-affiliated B.Sc and M.Sc courses in
media-related subjects.
SMART SKILLS
Offbeat
courses in foreign universities
EVERY
year the number of students going abroad for study increases. With
competition for seats in colleges within the country reaching
unrealistic levels, there is a growing interest among students to
explore study opportunities outside the country. Many countries are
welcoming students from India, and what was once a dream for a
select few.
CAREER HOTLINE
Good
command of English a must for medical transcription
Q I have completed
my graduation. I am interested to know about medical transcription.
What does it take to become a medical transcriptionist?
A Medical
transcription is a career option for people who have excellent
command over English, particularly written (you have to hear and
transcribe speech loaded with medical terminology in accents as
varied as American, Spanish, Mexican, Chinese, Indian and
mid-Western), and preferably familiarity with biology.
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