Students attend workshop in Scotland
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 7
After attending a two-month long exchange programme at Dornoch Academy in Scotland, the students and staff of Wylie Memorial High School have now returned.

Five students - Priyanka, Sonia, Gaurav, Gagandeep and Vikrant, had left for Scotland alongwith Ms T.Chopra and Mr Sanjay Kumar, both teachers, and Mr Sunil Pillay, manager, on May 25 with an aim of developing school links, international learning and cultural understanding.

Giving details of the programme, Mr Pillay said while at Dornoch Academy, the group interacted with the students of their age group classes. Several interactive sessions were held on different topics to explore possibilities of expanding their links to cover curriculum-based projects and other mutually beneficial areas.The students performed bhangra in the academy and on the occasion of Golden Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne.

The students also visited Dalry Primary School in Edinburgh, Kelso High School in Kelso, Hawick High School in Hawick and other school in North and Central Wales. Mr Pillay said many of these schools showed their keenness to set up links with Wylie Memorial High School. The students were also taken for site-seeing at various places in the Scottish Highlands including the famous Loch Ness. They visited a number of exhibitions, planetarium and other tourist attractions at London. Mr Pillay said the students were showing great enthusiasm, more confidence and maturity after coming back form the trip. He said he was planning to hold such exchange programmes annually.

Students’ science seminars from today
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 7
‘Remote sensing: Its possibilities and harmful effects’ will be the topic of the students’ science seminars to be organised by the District Education Department from tomorrow.

Giving this information, Mr Varinder Sharma, district science supervisor, said that tehsil level contests would begin tomorrow while the district level contest would be held on August 19. Tomorrow, students from Khanna tehsil would contest at Government Girls’ Senior Secondary School there. Competition for students from Samrala would be held on August 9 at Government Girls’ Senior Secondary School, Samrala. Students from schools in Ludhiana east would compete on August 12 at Government Model High School, Dholewal, and those in Ludhiana west would contest on August 13 at New Senior Secondary School, Civil Lines.

Mr Sharma said that the students getting top two positions in the seminars held at tehsil levels would compete for the district level contest to be held on August 19 at Government High School, Salem Tabri, behind New Sabzi Mandi. He said that the students from class VI to X would take part in the competition and each school would be represented by two students.

Giving details of the rules for competition, Mr Sharma said that the students would have to speak for five to six minutes on the topic. He said that before the seminar, a written test would be held in which objective type questions would be asked. After the seminar, the judges would ask the participants some questions on the same topic, he said.

Fashion institute ties up with Japanese firm
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 7
The Pinnacle Institute of Design and Technology (PIDT) has entered into a technical understanding with Juki Singapore Limited, a Japanese industrial sewing machine company.

According to a press note issued yesterday, this technical understanding had been done to bridge the gap between the garment industry and professionals passing out from the institute.

The tie-up would help oranise seminars, and workshops, for PIOT students. Industry training support would be extended by the technical team of the Japanese company.

The institute authorities claim that the tie-up was the first of its kind in the entire Punjab, Himachal and Haryana in which a fashion designing institute had entered into understanding with a big company to produce the garment and design professionals for the garment industry.

The institute is offering professional courses in fashion designing which specialises students in woven-fabric designing, garments designing, production and quality maintenance.