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February 13, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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CAMPUS Studying abroad is a dream that most students nurture. This explains the increase in the number of students who enrol in varsities abroad. In the recently concluded exhibition, ‘Education UK Exhibition’, the number of students who dropped into collect information was a mind-boggling number. The officials maintain that the number of Indian students enrolling in universities in the United Kingdom this year is expected to be over 10,000. Good news for these students, however, is the announcement made by the British Council vis-à-vis liberalising the visa arrangements and campus work permits. More than 140 academics from 65 leading UK universities and institutions were present at the exhibitions to advise and help out admission seekers from India. Last year, more than 6,000 Indian students took admission in universities and higher education institutions in the UK to pursue courses in a wide range of subjects from vocational subjects to post-graduate levels. The officials also point out that management, computing, engineering, media studies and art and design are the favoured courses while the shorter course duration of the degrees enhanced their value.
Exchange programme Pearl Academy of Fashion has started a student exchange programme. The programme is a two-fold exercise to provide exposure of the developed retail market in Germany to the Indian students as well as to bring the students of LDT Nagold to India, which is still developing and provides great potential to both for manufacturing as well as a potential market with a huge consumer base. The Institute claims that a number of foreign brands coming to India fail because of the lack of understanding of the Indian market and consumer behaviour. The programme is therefore aimed at providing more information about the Indian market and also shattering the myths that are related to the market. Designed to give students a realistic understanding of the Indian conditions to establish their brands in India, the programme also provides a hands-on experience of the Indian fashion and retail industry to help them further. The programme includes factory visits, exposure to Indian handicrafts, and industry interaction among other things. The programme will also explore areas like buying and sourcing from India.
ICRW organises workshop A workshop on ‘Development Done Right’ was organised by the International Centre for Research on Women. The event saw the presentation of studies carried out by five ICRW fellows. The fields covered included Girl’s Education, Natural Resource Management Employment in the unorganised sector and domestic violence. The meet was declared open by Ms Manjushree Badlani, Director, ICRW who spoke on the need to set up monitoring process towards accountability of the state, related organisations as well as individuals. The Ford Foundation funded the fellows and among those present were personnel from the UNICEF, USAID and UNDP.
IIPM conducts survey From among 850 business schools across the country only 35 were ranked. The respondents then rated these on eight parameters.
Swift Jyoti from NIIT NIIT has launched Swift Jyoti for women. The programme is a three-week package specially designed to provide functional literacy about computers. The programme is task oriented, where all the skills are learned through the performance of specially designed tasks. The meaningful content of Swift Jyoti programme will benefit women in seeking and receiving information useful in daily life and will provide a learning style and personality evaluation profile for career planning.
Asian Academy holds seminar A seminar on ‘Relevance of Asian Union’ was organised at the Asian Academy of Film and Television. Dr Fredric Staroevic, Director, United Nation’s Information Centre in Delhi, presided over the function and said that even the longest journey starts with a first step. The President of the Asian Union, Mr Beni Prasad Agarwal, called upon the opinion makers of the Asian sub-continent to come together and create an Asian entity in the interest of peace, economic development and poverty alleviation.
Management Education Institute of Management Education, Sahibabad, is organising a seminar, ‘Managing Uncertainty in Business: Strategic role of HR’, at the PHD chamber of Commerce on February 16. Union Minister of Labour, Dr Sahib Singh Verma, will inaugurate the event.
Workshop on news reading and anchoring New Friends Colony-based IIAN School of Mass Communication is going to conduct a 15-day-long specialised workshop for news reading and anchoring, keeping in view the huge demand for these professionals in the market as so many new channels are coming up and existing channels are expanding. Today, an anchor and a newsreader are quite different from their counterparts. They are now opinion makers, not merely followers of an established school of thought. During the time of news presentation, they ask questions and counter-questions on different topics. They should be well aware of everything under the sun. The presentation style has changed over the years. Today, they have more responsibilities on screen. They not only have to read the news bulletins but also have to conduct live interviews. So the aspirants in this field need more practical experience through the guidance of veterans of the same field rather than traditional curriculum and stereotyped methods. Keeping these things in mind, this institute has chalked out a short but concise course, which has been divided into theory and practical classes. The theory classes will cover the modules on TV news reading (live and recorded), different techniques of interviewing, like online interviews, screen presence and TV anchoring. The practical classes involve intensive camera practice sessions. All participants will finally be given the chance to make a video demo tape of their news presentation. (Input by Nalini Ranjan) |
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Giving value
‘must’ for corporate reputation New Delhi, February 12 Delivering the keynote address, Mr R. Krishnan, President & CEO, Cash Back South Asia, said strong corporate reputation sold products and services while poorly managed ones destroyed shareholder value. He further added, “Reputation is a valuable asset that contributes significantly to a company’s strategic positioning, yet few companies recognise the value of their reputation until they experience a crisis or scandal. Employees are known to be the most valuable resource in an organisation. Their performance contributes towards the building up of corporate reputation through excellence in corporate governance.” Speaking on the occasion, Prof K. K. Aggarwal, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, emphasised a closer link between the university and the corporate sector. “There are corporate universities growing at a faster pace and by 2020 they will outnumber the traditional universities.” He further added that positive attitude among the younger generation was necessary in order to compete and sustain themselves in the globally competitive environment.
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In a survey conducted by the business magazine, Business Barons, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, has been ranked 17th for over all reputation among the B-schools. 
