EDUCATION

Symbiosis’ chapter in Delhi
Tribune News Service

SYMBIOSIS International Educational Centre (SIEC) is opening its first campus outside Pune, in Delhi, next year. The deemed university status for Symbiosis puts it at par with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia that allows it to frame its own syllabus, confer its degree and open campuses anywhere, subject to local government permission, within and outside India. Following this, Symbiosis plans to open campuses not only in India but also in Oman, Mauritius and Thailand by the year 2005. The main thrust area of education in these countries will focus on Undergraduate, Post-graduate courses along with Management Development Programmes.

“For the Delhi Campus, the university has identified a 4-acre plot in Dwaraka that will start with its Law College, for which students will be enrolled on the basis of a national-level common entrance test,” said Dr S. B. Majumdar, Founder President and Director, Symbiosis. Dr Majumdar was the Head of the Botany Department of Fergusson College. He started Symbiosis at his residence promoting the welfare, education and hospitality for both Indian and foreign students.

At present, Symbiosis has 23 institutions and 112 courses. It has student strength of 30, 000, with a large number of them from North India and the third world countries. Apart from this, Symbiosis also offers a Centre for Distance Learning, where around 45, 000 NRI’s, and Indian students as well as working professionals have enrolled.

Call centre training

Aptech Computer education has placed students completing its call centre specialisation at leading organisations throughout the country. The ACPG Call centre course leads to domain specialisation and enables the student to pursue a fulfilling career in Customer Support Services.

Mr V. Balasubramanian, Executive Director & Global IT Head, Aptech, said, “Aptech’s continuous R & D efforts enable students to avail of real time industry relevant IT curriculum to enhance skills that are relevant for students to opt for new age career opportunities. CallTech, launched earlier, focuses on the call centre industry, and has been a major success. Our students have been placed at leading organisations such as GE Capital, Wipro, Spectramind, Daksh, Renasonic, Airtel - Grey Cell, exl Services, Mapro Transoft, Customer First Services Pvt, Ltd. The ACPG course for call centers is the latest curriculum upgraded to enable students to garner the best available jobs in the ITES segment”.

Mr Aniruddha Limaye VP, HR and Training, Daksh, said, “Training is an integral and extremely critical part of this HR intensive industry. This is primarily because the industry is so new and dynamics. As we meet the challenge of improving systems for hiring and training, it is educational and training institutions like Aptech that have come forward to support talent input on account of 1st level, generic training. We are hopeful that this will indeed support the ground-level requirements of the recruitment process.”

ISP’s seminar

The Indian School of Petroleum (ISP) has announced the first ‘Building Hydrocarbon Pipeline Infrastructure Conference’ scheduled to be held on December 13 and 14.

BHPIC will largely focus on the issues pertaining to the concept of pipeline design, construction, operation for pipeline, pipelines for effective supply chain management and legal and regulatory dimensions. The two-day exhibition will also include conference open for national and international participation.

BHPIC promises to be the right kind of platform for interactive dialogue between key industry players.

JIMS Workshops

Being responsive towards the contemporary and significant developments in business and technology, Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS) is organising seminar, workshops and conferences. These will include a management development programme on Managing Strategic Change for Growth and Survival, Supply Chain Management, Global Competitiveness through Kaizen and Six-Sigma for World Class Performance. These events will be held from December 20 up till March 15 2003.

An international conference on CAD, CAM and Robotics and Factories of the Future organised by the Indian Institute of technology will be held from February 23 till February 28, 2003.

Synergy 2002

Mr Vinay Rai, Chairman, Rai Foundation, Dr P. L. Sanjeeva Reddy, Director, IIPA, Mr Ravindra Kumar, Director, BHEL and Prof S. Neelamegham at the inauguration of 4th NIILM Annual Industry Academia Summit, ‘Synergy 2002’.

Principal says sorry; stir withdrawn
Our Correspondent

Bhiwani, December 11
With the principal expressing apology to the students for allegedly misbehaving with a girl, the management of local KMBEd College of Education averted an agitation today. Earlier, the students resorted to slogan shouting and went to the residence of the management trustee, Mr Kali Charan Kesan, in a procession.

It is to be mentioned that the students got enraged when the principal allegedly misbehaved with a girl. However, the principal denied of such action and said that it was just words between a teacher and a student.

On the other hand, students, taking a serious note of the incident, boycotted the classes and demanded an unconditional apology for the misbehaviour from the principal.

The college management summoned the police and a delegation of students met the principal. The talks proved futile and the students declared an indefinite boycott of classes.

Today, when the college started, the students sat on dharna and decided to meet the management members. The trustee, Mr Kesan, assured the students’ delegation that their demands would be accepted.

Their other demands included providing books under the new syllabus, raw material for making objects like candles and clay models, reducing class timings from 45 minutes to 30 minutes and not to make the attendance compulsory during morning prayer. Finally, the principal expressed sorry and the students called off the agitation.